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My R01 is due in a few hours, what’s on my mind besides ice cream?

In a few hours I’m going to submit my current R01 proposal to my institutional grants office, which will then submit it to NIH as is required by NIH. I’m tired. My brain is tired. I have a cold. I’ve read the grant a hundred times at least. I’ve had colleagues read it. I’ve taken …

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줄기세포란 무엇인가?

What are stem cells? Korean 줄기세포란 무엇인가? 인간의 신체는 하루하루의 건강에 중요한 역할을 하는 수백 종류의 다른 세포들로 구성되어 있습니다. 이 세포들은 우리의 심장을 뛰게 하고, 뇌가 생각 하게 하며, 신장에서 혈액을 정화시키고, 벗겨져 나간 피부세포를 대체하는 등 매일같이 우리의 신체를 유지하는 역할을 하고 있습니다. 줄기세포의 고유한 역할은 이런 다양한 세포들을 만들어 내는 것입니다. 줄기세포는 …

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Great big picture talk on cancer by Edison Liu at UC Davis Cancer Center Symposium: cool ‘long tail’ concept

Yesterday I managed to get to see a fabulous talk by Dr. Edison Liu, President and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory in Maine. I was able to squeeze it in, in between working on my R01 proposal and preparing for teaching histo to the med students here at UC Davis Med School. Dr. Liu was …

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Handy BioMed Science Tools

Chromatin/Genomics/Transcription Tools ChIP grade antibodies MOTIF enrichment tools for DNA analysis GREAT (Stanford) CEAS HOMER MEME ENCODE Promoter Array On-line Analysis Online Tiling Array Analysis ChIP-Seq data on-line Analysis Plant Tools Transfac UC Davis Genome Center Methylation tools Yeast tools Fly ChIP-chip database   General Science Tools Blast Search Genomic Blast Search ENSEMBL Blat Search …

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Jeremy Berg interview part II: the future of NIH funding

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Yesterday I had part I of my interview with NIGMS former Director, Dr. Jeremy Berg. Today we have part II of the interview, which I found very interesting and helpful in providing a glimpse into NIH. I appreciate Dr. Berg doing the interview and his frankness. Given the budgetary issues facing NIH in terms of …

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Interview with NIGMS Director, Jeremy Berg, part 1: grant advice, meritocracy

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Obtaining research grant funding is a critical part of science, but the process seems to be getting more challenging each year. Funding rates are decreasing. Applicant frustration is increasing and many grant applicants tell me they feel confused about the differences between funded and unfunded proposals. The largest funder of biomedical research in the U.S. …

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My collection of funny signs: UFO lemonade & falling coconuts

I live in Davis, CA. Sometimes it seems like Davis is a bubble full of the most colorful assortment of characters. One day walking my dog Elvis I noticed the sign to the right. I translated it as “Shh”. I’ve seen many signs in my days, but never one like this…it seems a little too …

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NIH grant process is painful on many levels according to poll respondents

I started a poll on what PIs dislike most about the NIH grant process. Why did I even do such a poll? I’ve been a professor for 6 years now and even in just a half a dozen years it’s clear that the grant process has become more and more painful. The poll results suggest …

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