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Blog post by Jacqueline Fukumoto

By David Coil   Posted in nectar1 Training and Courses
Posted on January 30, 2018February 1, 2018

  SOCIAL MEDIA MINI PROJECT: BLOG POST As a first year Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior major at UC Davis, I had calculus, biology, and an Asian American cultural studies class on my schedule for the fall quarter. However, I wanted to also try a seminar, to get some credits but also learn something new for …

Blog post by Jenna Freeland

By David Coil   Posted in nectar1 Training and Courses
Posted on January 30, 2018February 1, 2018

“Don’t mess up,” One of my classmates taunted at me, “It’s gotta be perfect!” At this moment, I had my pipette tip stuck into a buffer solution attempting to draw up a precise amount while simultaneously disregarding any comments coming my way. Before joining this class, I had very limited lab experience. Any prior experience …

Blog post by Meghan Edwards

By David Coil   Posted in nectar1 Training and Courses
Posted on January 30, 2018February 1, 2018

Failure is an Option: Not many people sit down in a lab and expect to hear that they can make mistakes, no problem. Or that, yep, the experiment was a bust. Better yet, lets google the protocol and see what other scientists are doing out there. Well that is just what I got in FRS …

Blog post by Marianne Cabanel

By David Coil   Posted in nectar1 Training and Courses
Posted on January 30, 2018February 1, 2018

Blog Post about Our Freshman Seminar University of California, Davis offers a Freshman Seminar class that introduces students to the world of biotechnical science by mimicking what is performed in a research lab. However, it is not just a simple seminar class—it is a lab in which we have the opportunity to practice skills through …

New video on “Nature’s Cutest Symbiosis: The Bobtail Squid”

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Life Science Topics
Posted on January 29, 2018

This is a nice video … Full disclosure — I was a scientific advisor for the Tangled Bank Studio production of this.

Blog post by Simran Bhatt

By David Coil   Posted in nectar1 Training and Courses
Posted on January 22, 2018February 1, 2018

In all honesty I joined this class without even knowing what this first year seminar was about. On the first day of class, after google mapping and asking people, I finally made it to the academic surge building and then to the lab room. From what I heard most first year seminars are in a lecture hall …

Blog post by Sonia Avalos

By David Coil   Posted in nectar1 Training and Courses
Posted on January 22, 2018February 1, 2018

I came into UC Davis knowing that I was determined and very interested in getting involved in some type of research. It is very hard to want to do something but not know where to start, especially when you’re a person like me who has never been involved in research. My school didn’t teach any …

Blog post by Angel Amayarazo

By David Coil   Posted in nectar1 Training and Courses
Posted on January 22, 2018February 1, 2018

I decided to join this class because I wanted to experience what it was like to participate in a research class where I could learn and discover what a research lab is all about . I came in with a fair amount of knowledge on how to do some of the planned experiments such as …

M5: Milk, Mammals, Mammaries, Microbes, Madness: Twitter Moment vs. Wakelet

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in .Featured Human Microbiome Life Science Topics
Posted on January 20, 2018December 22, 2018

Katie Hinde gave two talks at UC Davis this week. The focus of them was different but connected to the general topic of mammalian milk and there was some discussion of microbes in each talk. I live Tweeted both of them and then wanted to capture the Tweets. Since Storify is dead, that is no …

Blog post by Malek Ajam

By David Coil   Posted in nectar1 Training and Courses
Posted on January 19, 2018February 1, 2018

I was skeptical about joining this class when I first got the email advertising it. I wasn’t sure whether it was worth adding to my workload when I knew nothing about what to expect from the class. I ended up deciding to take the leap of faith, knowing that I wanted to be involved in …

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