My favorite study strategy: making mind maps and flow charts with draw.io
One of my favorite strategies for studying and/or organizing my thoughts is making mind maps and flow charts in draw.io. […]
Thesis committee meetings – prepare to make the most of them!
Thesis committee meeting coming up? Here’s some advice on what to expect and how to prepare for these progress-reports so […]
Multiplexing & molecular barcodes (indexes) in NGS (Next Generation Sequencing)
Multiplexing is when we combine or “pool” multiple samples together, process them all together, and then split up the results […]
What’s a molecular library? sequencing libraries, screening libraries, and more
A “library” is basically just some sort of collection of molecules. Often this is a large collection that is worked […]
How SPRI beads (SPRIselect, AMPure, etc.) work for nucleic acid clean-up & size selection
SPRI (Solid-Phase Reversible Immobilization) beads are used frequently in the preparation of DNA or RNA sequencing libraries. The protocols for […]
My favorite resources for learning pandas (python library for analyzing datasets in table formats)
I highly recommend learning pandas (the Python data analysis library) if you want to do any sort of data analysis […]
You never out-grow textbooks! (Only your ego can!) – and here’s one of my favorites…
People ask me all the time for textbook recommendations and my favorite biochemistry textbook of all time is Lehninger’s Principles […]
A lot to love about aliquots!
Aliquots are like snack-size portions – they’re smaller portions of something you have a lot of. This could be something […]
Gel electrophoresis types & choices
The basic idea of any form of gel electrophoresis is the same (separate molecules by size by using electricity to […]
Sample loading buffers for gel electrophoresis
Buffer you load a gel you have to mix it with a sample loading buffer! These buffers have a few […]
