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GeneDig Video
Here’s our new GeneDig video: GeneDig: Democratizing access to genomics from GeneDig on Vimeo.
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Videos
Below is a video made by SimpliSci.org describing one of our papers: Here is a clip of me describing some of the work that we do in the lab:
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Get the most out of your money for your university education
Class lectures. I like giving them, but every year I know students don’t learn the material very well. All professors know this, hundreds of years of history have shown this, and “[a] huge body of evidence2 suggests that [other] approaches are much more effective than lecture-and-drill-based techniques” (Waldrop, 2013, Nature). I do not think I have a monopoly on…
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Thanks GeneDig
I was curious about trinucleotide repeat disorders like Huntington’s disease and where the trinucleotide repeats occurred in the Huntingtin RNA, near beginning, middle, or end of the RNA? I first tried looking up the huntingtin gene (HTT) in NCBI and then realized this was going to take a while—and wouldn’t be reasonable for the rest of the trinucleotide repeat disorders I was also curious about. Then I…
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A Proposal for New Investigators
It’s exciting being a new investigator. Here is a proposal I have for other new investigators: As a new principal investigator (PI) I encourage other new PIs to hire underprivileged youths from high school as lab assistants into their new lab. Typically when you are a new investigator: You are going to spend most of your…
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Congrats to my students!
Kudos to my two trainees, Chiu-An Lo and Ibrahim Kays, who were awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Brain Star award for 2016! A well-deserved $1500 for them, they worked super hard on this project over the years. Their science game is strong. With Vedrana Cvetkovska winning in 2013, I now have a 100% hit rate for my grad…