Foundational Skills in Life Sciences
Students and scholars in life sciences need to use many skills to survive and excel during scientific training, which involves listening, reading, writing, and speaking.
But I have seen many of them struggle in understanding and learning those skills.
As a professor, I will guide you through the skills, so that you will learn and improve successfully in your professional life.
Please visit my website for more information (https://synaptologica.com/), and send me emails with questions, comments or ideas (ideas@synaptologica.com).
Podcasting since 2023 • 33 episodes
Foundational Skills in Life Sciences
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33. How to do a good oral presentation? Hidden, but important tip (Q&A-2: presentation)
Question of today: What is a practical tip for effective oral presentations? There are many important things to do, for delivering oral presentations successfully. But I will be happy to give you my number one tip and the reasons why. And this ...
September 09, 2024
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Episode 33
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17:44
32. Is it important to include positive and negative controls in each experiment? Lesson from Nobel Laureates' work (mini-series: reading-22)
We will examine the positive and negative controls in the milestone article of the Nobel Laureates. The article shows us one of the best examples of how to use positive and negative controls in life-science experiments. We will compare a total ...
August 29, 2024
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Episode 32
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21:32
31. Is it OK to say, “I don’t know” in response to technical questions? (Q&A-1: interview)
The first Q&A session! Question of today: Is it OK to say, “I don’t know” in response to technical questions in an interview when you apply for a life-science research position in a laboratory? I will give you my answer and the reaso...
August 21, 2024
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Episode 31
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12:02
30. Positive controls in another experiment by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-21)
We will keep analyzing the specific positive controls that the Nobel Laureates used in their milestone article 1 that led to the Nobel Prize. We will examine the four positive controls in the third figure of this paper, and in other figures as ...
August 17, 2024
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Episode 30
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32:41
29. Positive controls in experiments by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-20)
Let’s analyze the specific positive controls that the Nobel Laureates used in their milestone article 1 that led to the Nobel Prize. We will look at the first two figures and four positive controls therein. As always, we are impressed by the me...
August 06, 2024
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Episode 29
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25:31