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Conference season thoughts #3 – Hosting a conference
This is part 3 in a series of posts this summer conference season. It isn’t aimed at one particular LOC – I know how hard they all work – but intended as a general reflection. I’ve been to god-knows how … Continue reading
Conference thoughts #2: Chairs, earn your ticket!
There are good chairs and bad. Surprisingly (or not, this is academia, after all..) there’s little guidance. I’ve put together a list: Start as you mean to go on. Remind speakers to keep to time (see next point) and encourage questions … Continue reading
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Tagged CPD, mentor, mentoring, professional development, science, statistics, students, support, training
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Conference thoughts #1: PIs, support your students!
Summer conference season is nearly over. This is the first of three posts, informed by some reflections about the nature of scientific conferences. Students often feel under a lot of pressure when giving their first public presentations. PIs, for whom a … Continue reading
Science and (small) business
Over the last 10-20 years there’s been a revolution in academic science (or should that be ‘coup’?) where many aspects of the job have been professionalised and formalised, especially project management but management in general. This generally includes tools like … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Blog, Science
Tagged academia, professinalisation, science, science policy
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Cheat on your exams
Had a heated discussion with a friend the other day. I went to a school, where ‘exam techniques’ were part of the standard toolkit given to students to get them the best possible grades at GCSE, A-levels, and beyond. She … Continue reading
Science communication
Scientists are specialists… …at making their incredibly interesting work sound utterly boring: Jargon and scientists’ love for their own prose tending to weave dense, impenetrable sentences.. like.. this… one. Luckily, I was able to attend an excellent Science Communication course … Continue reading
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Tagged expert, MRC, science, science communication, science journalism, science writing, summary
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Befi-BaTS v0.1.1 alpha release
Long-overdue update for beta version of Befi-BaTS. Software: Befi-BaTS Author: Joe Parker Version: 0.1.1 beta (download here) Release notes: Befi-BaTS v0.1 beta drops support for hard polytomies (tree nodes with > 2 daughters), now throwing a HardPolytomyException to the error … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Science
Tagged alpha, BaTS, Befi-BaTS, bioinformatics, changelog, coding, phylogenetic, phylogeny, public release, science
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Generation of neutralizing antibodies and divergence of SIVmac239 in cynomolgus macaques following short-term early antiretroviral therapy.
PLoS Pathog. 2010 Sep 2;6(9):e1001084. Ozkaya Sahin G, Bowles EJ, Parker J, Uchtenhagen H, Sheik-Khalil E, Taylor S, Pybus OG, Mäkitalo B, Walther-Jallow L, Spångberg M, Thorstensson R, Achour A, Fenyö EM, Stewart-Jones GB, Spetz AL. Neutralizing antibodies (NAb) able … Continue reading
Safety and immunogenicity of novel recombinant BCG and modified vaccinia virus Ankara vaccines in neonate rhesus macaques.
J Virol. 2010 Aug;84(15):7815-21. Epub 2010 May 19. Rosario M, Fulkerson J, Soneji S, Parker J, Im EJ, Borthwick N, Bridgeman A, Bourne C, Joseph J, Sadoff JC, Hanke T Although major inroads into making antiretroviral therapy available in resource-poor … Continue reading
Posted in Journals, Publications, Science
Tagged collaborations, journals, publications, science, statistics
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Full-Length Characterization of Hepatitis C Virus Subtype 3a Reveals Novel Hypervariable Regions under Positive Selection during Acute Infection
Humphreys I, Fleming V, Fabris P, Parker J, Schulenberg B, Brown A, Demetriou C, Gaudieri S, Pfafferott K, Lucas M, Collier J, Huang KH, Pybus OG, Klenerman P, Barnes E. J Virol. 2009 Nov;83(22):11456-66. Epub 2009 Sep 9. Hepatitis C … Continue reading
Posted in Journals, Publications
Tagged bioinformatics, collaborations, HCV, hepatitis C virus, journals, phylogenetics, phylogeny, publications, science, virus
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