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Alex Palazzo is a postdoctoral fellow working in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School.

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July 31, 2007

Repost - Leading edge localization?

Category: Retrospective

... don't count on it!

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July 30, 2007

Repost - Eye Candy

Category: Retrospective

A connective tissue cell, stained for umodified and detyrosinated microtubules.

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July 29, 2007

Repost - Immunofluorescence - why is color bad

Category: Retrospective

OK here's a post geared mostly to cell biologists. My big pet peeve about the biomedical scientific literature is ... colored fluorescent images.

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July 26, 2007

Going away ...

Category: Misc

I'm going to California with an aching in my heart.

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July 25, 2007

mRNA in dendrites: this message will self-destruct in 10 seconds

Category: Pure Biology

In their latest paper, the Moore lab proposes that certain mRNAs are transported up dendrites, translated at the synapse, and then destroyed by NMD. Very cool.

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See you at the pub

Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli

If you live or work near the Harvard Medical School (i.e. Longwood) area, I encourage you to join us tonight.

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July 23, 2007

No votes for the godless

Category: Science & Society

Yesterday I saw this graph in the NYTimes: Click here for a larger version. On the bright side (no pun intended) the numbers are better then what they used to be (does anyone have the numbers from the 2000 election?)...

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What's Up Postdoc? (Edition #6)

Category: Lab Life

The newest edition of the monthly postdoc carnival is up.

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July 20, 2007

Analysis of tip-usage methods

Category: Lab Life

In what order do you use your pipette tips. My trusty baymate and I investigate ...

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Another Pub Night

Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli

Corie sent me the info on Nature Network Boston's second pub night:...

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July 19, 2007

Postdoc Carnival - Call for Submissions

Category:

Send in your favorite post on postdoc-hood.

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July 18, 2007

JCB to HHMI: Why did you sell out to Elsevier?

Category: Lab Life

Publishers 1: open access 0

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July 16, 2007

Cell Morphology Question

Category: Pure Biology

Some micrographs from a recent experiment that I performed. What do you think?

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July 12, 2007

More photos from Montreal and the Jazzfest

Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli

For our last trip, but taken by our friend Michael.

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History and analysis of scientific publishing

Category: Science & Society

Some comments on Jean-Claude Guedon's In Oldenburg's Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing.

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Nikon's Small World Photomicography contest - go vote

Category: Science & Society

Now in it's 34th year, this microscopy competition is one of the most popular around. This year the general public is invited to vote for the winner.

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July 10, 2007

Tid Bits

Category: Misc

Carnivals, the NIH, a video on mitosis, and links to interviews.

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July 9, 2007

Sights and Sounds from the Montreal Jazzfest

Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli

We spent the weekend up in Montreal where we caught some of the many shows at the Jazz Fest. If you've never been, here's what you're missing:

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July 6, 2007

More visa woes for high skilled workers in the US

Category: Lab Life

On July 2nd the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency placed a hold on visas for highly skilled foreign workers.

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July 5, 2007

Scientific publishing linkfest

Category: Pure Biology

Since I first posted on science publishing and the web2.0, various links have popped up and I just wanted to alert you of them.

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July 4, 2007

ENCODE

Category:

One percent of the genome has been analyzed. What is in it? What is going on?

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July 3, 2007

Yet another way that miRNAs turn off transcripts

Category: Pure Biology

After the last miRNA post, I was alerted to this paper that appeared in the June 15th edition of Nature: Thimmaiah P. Chendrimada, Kenneth J. Finn, Xinjun Ji, David Baillat, Richard I. Gregory, Stephen A. Liebhaber, Amy E. Pasquinelli &...

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July 1, 2007

Another sultry day in Boston

Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli

I'm out of the lab and planning to enjoy the rest of the afternoon... (thanks BTM)...

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