The traveling biochemist: A trip to Mumbai, India, Vol. 9
Traveling to the joint Indo-US X-ray crystallography conference in Mumbai I traveled to Mumbai, India, for the first time to attend the joint Indo-US X-ray crystallography conference. This is the ninth...
View ArticleThe traveling biochemist: A trip to Mumbai, India, Vol. 10
Traveling to the joint Indo-US X-ray crystallography conference in Mumbai I traveled to Mumbai, India, for the first time to attend the joint Indo-US X-ray crystallography conference. This is the tenth...
View ArticleStudy abroad during the 2012 UEFA European soccer championship
A Study Abroad Program sponsored by NCSU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences By Hanna Gracz It was really exciting to be in Poland this year and direct four weeks of summer study abroad program...
View ArticleThe traveling biochemist: Cell death in Barga, Italy
A few weeks ago I attended my first Gordon Conference on Cell Death in Barga, Italy with my PI, Clay Clark. The conference was located in a beautiful resort nestled in the Tuscan hills off the beaten...
View ArticleFree energy in the woods
The Gibbs Conference on Biothermodynamics recently held its 26th annual meeting in Carbondale, IL. The Gibbs conference began in 1986 with a meeting to discuss the discipline of thermodynamics in...
View ArticleVisiting Poznan as a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow
The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences (IBCH PAS) was established almost 25 years ago, but its origins date back to 1969 when the Department of Stereochemistry of Natural...
View ArticleThe traveling biochemist: Biochemistry in Dar es Salaam
Part 1: The multinational project It sounds exotic, and it certainly is. Dar es Salaam is the biggest city in Tanzania, but is not the capital (Dodoma). It is a port with 2.5 million people in 2002...
View ArticleThe traveling biochemist: Science in the far east
When I’m lucky enough to be invited to a conference outside the United States, I jump at the chance to visit faculty and students at other institutes. Recently, I was invited by the Biochemical Journal...
View ArticleThe traveling biochemist: Enzymes, pathways, proteases, and homeostasis
As I’ve written before in this blog, one of the advantages of working in an academic institution is the opportunity of international travel. Science is a world-wide endeavor, and one should take...
View ArticleLaunching 2014 in Paris: The international year of crystallography
Guest Blogger Dr. Susan K. Fetics is the International Vice President, Iota Nu Chapter of Graduate Women in Science. She is a post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratoire d’Enzymologie et Biochimie...
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