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 31, 2014 | Audubon Bird Counts, citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, eyewire, foldit, GalaxyZoo, mark2cure, scistarter, serious games, sulab, The Cure, Thursday Science
The crowdsourcing of science is not new with professor Olmsted’s crowdsourcing of meteorological observations in early half of the 19th century followed by the Audubon bird counts and National Weather Service weather observations since the early 1900s. Prior to...
