A (first) year in a life of a PhD student
Ever wondered how the first year of a science PhD student can look like? Is it even a job? Literature review, finding keywords, getting to know the studied animals, sometimes frustrating outcome of experiments, learning how to analyze the data and more.
Nervous system and networks
Hey all! Welcome to my new blog post. Today, I’m gonna channel my inner professor and try to explain in simple words how the sea urchin larva nervous system is structured and what is a gene regulatory network. Us, humans when we want to perform a task, e.g. picking up...
More about the joy of single cell sequencing: Cell dissociation
How to dissociate samples into single cells *whilst not lose all hope of eventually becoming a Doctor of Philosophy* There are a LOT of different protocols to dissociate samples into single cells. However, to boil it down, they all use three main drivers: trituration...
Unveiling neural cell-type(s)
[Opinion] Neural cell types, like other many cell types, come in a constellation of different morphologies and connectivity amongst other cell-types. For the past century, neurobiologists (and anatomists alike) have pursued the descriptions of neural cell types at the...
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