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
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…
Introducing yourself to what is undoubtedly a large community can be somewhat unnerving, but I have found that the best way to do it is just dive straight in. My name Is Kagweni Micheni, however due to the fact that…
I am incredibly lucky in that our research group is not only tolerant of my crazy science outreach ideas, but whole-heartedly embraces and develops them. When we started thinking about activities for the “International Fascination of Plants Day“, our PhD…
This article is part of a series of blog posts written by students from Didcot Girls’ School. All posts can be found under the category STEM Club. We really enjoyed our time at Brookes University. It was a fascinating experience and…
Yesterday I participated as facilitator in the Science Communication Training Day 2012 for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers, which was organised by the Biochemical Society, Society of Experimental Biology and British Ecological Society. It was a brilliant day and Antonia Desmond wrote a…
This video explains how to build a gel electrophoresis apparatus, prepare an agarose gel and use it to separate food colouring dyes – and you can do all that in your kitchen! Very cool!