By Raymond on Apr 3, 2009 in Science and Research | 0 Comments
Recently I am rather busy in lab work and coursework. An advantage of using fruit flies as model organism in biology is that a lot of genetic tools are available. These tools make flies, which also have short living cycle, a good species to screen for genes involved in certain molecular pathways. However, the drawback [...]
By Raymond on Mar 26, 2009 in Science and Research | 0 Comments
In the last post, I mentioned that students should maintain and develop their interests in all kinds of art. One major obstacle is that they believe learning and practising will take a lot of time and badly influence GPA and future career pathway. However, I think it is not really a matter whether we are [...]
By Raymond on Mar 13, 2009 in Science and Research | 0 Comments
In the Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, the posters for invited scientists are designed in the style of public concert. Please visit the following links about the introduction of these poster designs. http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/55484/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/biologyposters/ These posters are more colorful and creative than the black-words-on-white-paper posters in my department. It seems designing [...]
