Check out the ICOB YouTube channel. We added a series of short videos that introduce some of the different laboratory models used in the institute. You can see some cool animals and even cooler science. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChN2ANZIdeFXRrlhGvncsiw
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Reading Papers: Sketch out the argument
Reading scientific papers can be a chore. It is not uncommon for great scientists to be poor communicators, so it often requires a major effort by the reader to simply understand the logic of a paper. The most useful activity I have found for increasing comprehension of scientific papers is to sketch out the argument. …
What is the take-home message, and where can I find it?
This morning as I left the house, I realized I had forgotten my ID. I went back inside and spent about five frustrating minutes searching for it, only to find it on a shelf that I almost never use. The experience reminded me very much of reading a scientific paper that is organized in an …
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This page provides a window into my professional activities, some personal thoughts and a way to contact me. I hope you find something interesting or enjoyable here.
Successful Phase 2 for new Huntington’s disease treatment
My Ph.D. project was related to Huntington’s disease. It’s a terrible neurodegenerative disease with no effective treatments. More than a decade after graduating, I am thrilled to see that one of the strategies some of my contemporaries were working on is gaining major traction in clinical trials. I wrote a short news piece about it. …
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news and views: interneurons
One of the papers I edited at ICOB excited my imagination, so I wrote a ‘news and views’ style article about it. Writing this piece helped me learn about the context of the findings. The work by Dr. Chou’s lab was published in Nature Genetics, making it the second paper from ICOB to gain acceptance …
MJC Scientific Writing and Editing 