Category Archives: science

A couple of weeks ago the Biochemistry Graduate Association Gyanu Lamichhane to give a seminar on his work on peptidoglycan transpeptidases.  In his very nice talk Lamichane told the story of how a search for transposon mutants with virulence phenotypes led him to work on an unexpected peptidoglycan transpeptidase. Lamichhane’s talk prompted me to look at […]

Spent Thursday and Friday at an iPlant workshop I helped set up at Prairie View as part of a genomics education project I’m doing with Gloria Regisford in the PVAMU Biology Dept.  iPlant just got renewed by NSF and will be expanding their scope beyond plants.  The focus of the workshop was the DNA subway set […]

There has been a lot of focus on impact factors for journals, and there are some interesting issues with how publishers can try to game the system.  I wonder, however, if it would be useful to publish some alternative rankings of journals based on other criteria. Specifically, I’d love to see a ranking of journals […]