Fly scientists have a good sense of humor. When naming genes, they have way more creativity than scientists working with mammals. Our (human) genes are named p53, RAS, CELSR, FGF, etc. All acronyms that define the function of the product. But fly people are fun.
Looking backwards, I started my blog at a bad time. My research project was reaching its final stage, and that meant having to write a lot. If I think about it, maybe me starting the blog was a way to try to avoid starting writing, but I really though with all that was happening with Twitter (and …
I did my first real lab work back in 2010. I joined Ernst Wimmer’s lab in Germany during my Erasmus Scholarship and for the first time, I was exposed to proper lab work, lab notebooks, reading articles within a project, and scientific writing, including citing vast amounts of reference …
When I read about science written in the regular press, I’m always very skeptical of the content of the article. It’s not that I don’t trust journalists, but in my experience, the words of scientists are usually hyped to levels that were definitely not there when the journalist …
If I had to choose the technique I love the most from my work it would be microscopy 🔬. Getting to see life at a cellular level remind me how complex we are and the amount of organization that goes into a single living being.