While at Stanford, I started a protein engineering project, designing a Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) that could rapidly split into two parts. The design was guided by computer simulations and resulted in a protein with up to 20 times faster dissociation rates. The paper was… Read More »New publication in Nature Communications
I’m in my final month as a Stanford postdoc and this month I aim to finish writing up one of my projects. For some people, manuscripts are tedious and time-consuming to write. For me, it’s something I truly enjoy. To me, the time spent writing… Read More »Scientific manuscripts
I´m attending a six-week course on how to write in Academia. The course is for postdocs that are non-native English speaker and it´s taught by a very funny guy, Dr. Kristopher Geda. The course is held every Tuesday 5 pm-7 pm and although it seems… Read More »Professional and Academic Writing
I was curious about what makes a great blog, and I learned that good blogs with ardent followers have a niche. And so I thought “What is my niche?”. Is it being a postdoc? Being a foreigner in the US? Being in the privileged Stanford… Read More »What is my niche?