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Searching for antibiotics in Puerto Rican soil

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In November 2014 I found myself drenched in rainwater at the Humacao Nature Reserve collecting soil samples… well, more like mud samples. It was my first morning in Puerto Rico and it had been raining since my arrival. Yet the University of Puerto Rico students accompanying me were determined to fill their conical tubes with soil, at all costs. Our goal: to discover new antibiotic producers in the soil.

Effective Communication, Better Science

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Science communication is part of a scientist’s everyday life. Scientists must give talks, write papers and proposals, communicate with a variety of audiences, and educate others. Thus to be successful, regardless of field or career path, scientists must learn how to communicate. Moreover, scientists must learn how to communicate effectively. In other words, to be a successful scientist, you must be an effective communicator.

Schedule for Cambiowebiar Series 2015

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Cambiowebinars is a project that broadcasts live biology seminars to remote audiences in universities in Puerto Rico and individuals via livestream. The speakers  from the University of Cambridge in UK  volunteer their time to disseminate their science. The topics are diverse but  focus on recent discoveries or technology.

Each seminar has a designated contact in Puerto Rico that organizes the audience in a variety of local universities. In the past we have been able to reach audiences in UPRM and RCM-UPR. The seminars are open to the public but crafted specially to researchers, graduate and undergraduate students.

The seminar series for this semester includes:

 

Reflections on my PhDversary

Submitted by Mónica Ivelisse Feliú-Mójer on

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It’s been exactly two years since I completed my PhD on Tuesday, January 15th, 2013.

Since then some things have changed, some have not. I swapped the bench for outreach; the microscope for Twitter; pipettes for YouTube. Although I no longer do research in a lab, my love for discovery and learning remains the same.

Today instead of thinking about experiments with worms and microscopes I think about how to make science matter to people. Instead of generating knowledge, I share it. I have a different role in the process of science.

Puerto Rico Social at SfN 2014

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Around 60 Puerto Rican scientists or people with scientific ties with Puerto Rico attended the Puerto Rico social during this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting (SfN).  The social was held in Washington D.C., on Sunday, November 16.  During the social, hebbian links were formed and fortified within the neuroscientist community that researches in the Puerto Rican archipelago with other scientists that research in other parts of the world. 

Disrupting the Way We Build Startups

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Grupo Guayacán is thrilled to share that we have been awarded a grant by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to launch I-Corps Puerto Rico, a customer discovery boot camp for entrepreneurs looking to build and develop scalable business models. We are partnering with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s VentureLab to launch a local version of the successful Startup Gauntlet, a program modeled after the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps). Georgia Tech’s VentureLab has successfully taught Startup Gauntlet to 28 cohorts, encompassing a total of 492 participants.

¿Tiempo de repensar lo que es medular en la teoría de la evolución?

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¿Necesita la teoria evolutiva reevaluar el credo establecido en su sintesis moderna? Los investigadores están divididos sobre qué procesos se deben considerar fundamentales. EL ETERNO DEBATE SOBRE EL LAMARKISMO RENACE CON JUSTIFICACION! Que piensas? Yo estoy con el bando de los que dicen, "tranquilo, tenemos los fundamentos cubiertos y no hay que re-escribrir el credo medular de la biologia moderna". Interesante debate posteado en la revista Nature el 9 de octubre del 2014. 

http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.16080!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftC...

De wikipedia para refrescarnos la memoria de lo que es la sintesis evolutiva moderna y su importancia

Recordando al Apostol de Darwin, Ernst Mayr

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Nadie desde Darwin arrojo tanta luz a la ideas brillantes de la biología evolutiva como lo hizo Ernst Mayr. Su estrella no ha dejado de brillar, y sus ideas seguirán viviendo en generaciones de jóvenes biólogos evolutivos venideros. Aqui el enlace a un pequeño tributo a este gigante de la Biología.

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1073696/pdf/pbio.0030152.pdf

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