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Biotechnology YES – an entrepreneurial adventure

Guest blogger Charlotte Carroll writes about her experience with ‘Biotechnology YES’, an entrepreneurial training programme for biology PhD students. Charlotte tweets at @_CharlotteCC_.  In June I received an email regarding a competition known as Biotechnology YES. I deleted it. It wasn’t…

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How I became a plant cell biologist

This is a transcript of my three minute presentation at Science Oxford’s closing down event  ‘Science Oxford versus the Rest of the World’. I drew the images with the iPad app ‘Paper by Fifty Three‘. Hello. I am a plant…

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Of blogging apps and plant memes

In other news, there is a new plant Tumblr on the block: The Annals of Botany ‘Understorey tumblr, which features short, entertaining and funny plant bits. For this I have been thinking about plant memes. So far I only managed…

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Highlights of #Organellewars: Lysosomes

This is the fourth part of the #organellewars round-up. Read up on the background here, if you missed it! Lysosome4The Win http://storify.com/Lysosome4TheWin/lysosomes-organelle-wars-2012 VoteForLysosome  http://storify.com/VoteForLysosome/lysosomes-a-little-big-deal Lysosomes2012 http://storify.com/Lysosomes2012/lysosomes-2012      

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Highlights of Organellewars: The Endoplasmic Reticulum

This is the third part of the #organellewars round-up. Read up on the background here, if you missed it! Reticulum Rocks (@Reticulum_Rocks) http://storify.com/Reticulum_Rocks/the-story-of-a-hard-working-organelle-called-endop EndoRetic (@EndoRetic) http://storify.com/EndoRetic/organellewars EndoReticulum (@EndoReticulum) http://storify.com/EndoReticulum/endoplasmic-reticulium    

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Highlights of Organellewars: The Nucleus

This is the second part of the #organellewars round-up. Read up on the background here, if you missed it! NuCleanNucleus2012 (@NuCleanNucleus) http://storify.com/NuCleanNucleus/organellewars-revenge-of-the-nuclei Nucleus Cellsmarts (@cell_smarts) http://storify.com/cell_smarts/the-jorney-of-nucleus-cellsmarts Nucleus 2012 http://storify.com/WilliamWang/nucleus-2012  

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The Highlights of Organellewars: Ribosomes

The dust has settled. All candidates have given their speeches, distributed flyers and bribes baked goods. The votes have been cast and Mr Graba has announced  the winners. I am talking about the first organelle presidential campaign on Twitter, or short…

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