Monthly Archives: January 2011

Part II: An interview with Rosie Redfield

In the second part of our interview, Rosie and I talked more personally about mentorship and women in science. Me:  Tell me about some of your early career mentors. Rosie: I wouldn’t say that I was mentored directly, but maybe … Continue reading

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Looking to our leaders: An interview with Rosie Redfield

The MER blog has as its mandate to provide a place to discuss the latest trends in the field. To that end, I have started a series of interviews that will focus on women who have earned the respect of … Continue reading

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Get you some homologs*

Let’s assume the following scenario: you have a gene in which you are interested. You would like to find the putative location of this gene in another organism using sequence similarity searches. The question is, how do you do that? The answers are many. Here is one. Continue reading

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Data archiving and the JDAP

The new year is here, and one of the biggest changes it will bring is the implementation of the Joint Data Archiving Policy by a number of ecology and evolution journals. These include Molecular Ecology (and ME Resources), Evolution, American … Continue reading

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