Alex Palazzo is a postdoctoral fellow working in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School.
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October 31, 2007
Category: Lab Life
I would like to thank the speakers and all of you who attended our NERD Club (New England RNA Data Club). One amazing aspect of our club is the diversity of the topics included. Last night we had talks about...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:22 AM • 0 Comments •
October 29, 2007
Category: Pure Biology
Some thoughts on a great talk by Gaudenz Danuser on actin, focal adhesions and G-proteins and cell migration.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:26 PM • 1 Comments •
October 28, 2007
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Some beautiful images taken by my good friend Jan Schmorandzer are being displayed at the M.W. Offit Gallery in the Gottesman Library at Columbia's Teacher's College. For more information visit: www.CellPortraits.blogsplot.com www.CellPortraits.blogspot.com (The blog includes a cool video of Jan...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 6:11 PM • 2 Comments •
October 26, 2007
Category: Map that Campus
Yes it's back. What is this week's mystery campus?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:52 AM • 8 Comments •
October 25, 2007
Category: Science & Society
All the info is here. A copy of the resignation letter can be found here. [HT: Eye on DNA]...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:16 PM • 2 Comments •
October 24, 2007
Category: Science & Society
Last night, the US Senate approved the Labor-HHS appropriations bill that includes a provision requiring all NIH funded studies to be available free of charge (i.e. Open Access). Furthermore, the bill passed 75-19 preventing any possibility of a veto. And...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 5:38 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Lab Life
Yes, the New England RNA Data Club meets next week.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 4:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science & Society
I'm sick and tired of this debate of "do you believe in evolution?" Who cares? Who freakin' cares? If only a candidate would say "I understand how evolution works"
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:10 AM • 14 Comments •
October 23, 2007
Category: Science & Society
Who does ACS represent? And why is ACS management against Open Access?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:55 AM • 0 Comments •
October 22, 2007
Category: Science & Society
This site says it all. If you are wondering why the American Chemical Society is fighting open access, the answer is simple ... ACS management receives bonuses that are tied to the revenues generated from ACS publications. They are also...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 6:05 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Science & Society
As you probably know, today the US Senate votes on amendments sponsored by Senator Inhofe (Rep. - OK) which would effectively nullify parts of the the bill (FY08 Labor-HHS Bill) that would require all NIH funded work to be published...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:23 PM • 1 Comments •
October 19, 2007
Category: Lab Life
A strange but familiar passage in a NY Times article on FoxP2.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 4:39 PM • 6 Comments •
October 18, 2007
Category: Pure Biology
... new research shows that cells have chirality.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:45 AM • 7 Comments •
October 17, 2007
Category: Misc
Well it has been over 3 weeks since I last posted anything original. (Hope you didn't mind all those reposts). What has happened since then?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:39 AM • 5 Comments •
October 12, 2007
Category: Retrospective
I'm on the last bit of my protracted vacation. I'll be back on Monday. To commemorate work (got to get back into that mind-set) here's a little rant I posted last year....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:05 AM • 3 Comments •
October 11, 2007
Category: Retrospective
By now I should be flying in to Paris to meetup with some old friends. Tomorrow I'll be giving a talk at the Universite Pierre & Marie Curie entitled: The Signal Sequence Coding Region: promoting nuclear export of mRNA, and...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:01 AM • 0 Comments •
October 10, 2007
Category: Retrospective
I'm in Italy. Until I get back I've set up my blog to repost some old entries. Here's a post from last year....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:56 AM • 1 Comments •
October 8, 2007
Category: Retrospective
I'm in Italia. Here's one of my favorite entries. It first appeared last year....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:32 AM • 1 Comments •
October 5, 2007
Category: Retrospective
I'm in Italy. Over the past two weeks I've been reposting my entries on technology. Here is a related post on Le Corbusier and his conception of the modern city....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:07 PM • 2 Comments •
October 3, 2007
Category: Retrospective
Still in Italy. Here is a post from last year that was a follow-up to the entry that was reposted yesterday....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:01 AM • 1 Comments •
October 2, 2007
Category: Retrospective
I should be walking around the family olive grove by now. Here is yet another old post from last year....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:25 AM • 2 Comments •
