I am so looking forward to the talks tomorrow.
Linda Buck! Sharon Long! Mary-Claire King! and more...
Frontiers in the Life Sciences: a Symposium Celebrating Excellence
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I am so looking forward to the talks tomorrow.
Linda Buck! Sharon Long! Mary-Claire King! and more...
Frontiers in the Life Sciences: a Symposium Celebrating Excellence
I was so pleased to have a chance to take part in the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3.
Thanks to the Cornell faculty and students that put together this wonderful event. For those that could not attend, read the graduate student interviews with the speakers here.
Dr. Mary Power is…
This critique of genome-wide association studies by Jon McClellan and Mary-Claire King in Cell is the latest salvo in a prolonged backlash against genome-wide association studies (GWAS).
I hope to have more on the McClellan and King paper shortly, but in the meantime I will point you to a positive…
Zuska never fails to make people think. And she made me wonder this and made me think that perhaps we could pass some names along to future Noble committees - you know, just in case they're having trouble coming up with names of female scientists. Maybe we can be some help.
I have a few…
It's ultimately our individual responsibility to learn and educate ourselves about the significance of both organic and commoditized food. As with most issues that have a large impact on our daily lives, it's up to us to have informed, well- rounded fact-based discussions rather than emotion-laden diatribes. Sustainable food supply systems should have an equal footing with organic and locally grown food supply systems so far as their importance. I hope we can evolve to more intelligent, less emotion-driven dialogue about how to best utilize both systems.