by ginger | Oct 2, 2014 | science, sulab, Thursday Science, wiki, work
For my dissertation research, I studied the mechanisms of viral persistence in the central nervous system using an in vitro model consisting of picornavirus infections of differentiated and undifferentiated murine neural progenitor and stem cells. To some of my...
by ginger | Sep 4, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, science, sulab, Thursday Science
In case you missed it, Caren Cooper et al. just published a fascinating research article on PLOS One (it’s open access, so check it out!) detailing her investigations on the contributions of citizen scientists in ornithological (bird) research. In this article...
by ginger | Jul 2, 2014 | crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, science, sulab, wiki, wikipedia, wisdom of the crowd, work
Professor Murray Jennex is an information systems whiz. He would start his classes on Information Security and Decision Support Systems with an open and frank discussion on relevant current affairs. During one of these discussions he raised a question regarding the...
by ginger | Jun 11, 2014 | career, fitting in, new job, office space, research, science, sulab, training period, work, work place terratories
Yes! Yes, of course! There is always plenty to do and so much to learn in an awesome lab. This is not what I mean by data mining The lab that I joined does a lot of data mining and has a lot of ongoing projects many of which could use participation from the general...
