Deepa Agashe, at NCBS in Bangalore, has been awarded one of three “SERB Women Excellence” Awards and was recognized directly by the president. Not that president, but the Indian President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind. As they call out on their website: Dr Deepa Agashe is…
Congrats to Dipti Nayak, who is still in her first year of being an Assistant Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology at UC Berkeley, on being named one of the 15 Searle Scholars for 2020. She was honored due to exploring “how do archaea produce…
Remember March 1st of this year? Kids were in school and labs were open. As for me, I was about to get on a plane to fly from Copenhagen through to Denver for the American Physical Society (APS) general meeting to give a talk. With…
Yup, I really wrote that. In a lab so strongly influenced by Darwin, I just invoked the name of Lamarck, who is often framed as the anti-Darwin. In no way am I defending any aspect of Lamarck’s support of the “Great chain of being” to…