Book Club: Outliers
Our book choice for reading through the holiday season is Outliers: The story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. In the book Gladwell presents his thesis about the factors are make some people wildly more successful than others – using a […]
Book Club : Survival of the Sickest
Our lab’s August 2016 Book Club selection was the Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince. The book has been extensively reviewed since its 07 publication and is a staple of undergraduate book discussions in Biology. Lab […]
Statistics for the Immunology Graduate Student
This page lists our favorite online resources for Immunology Graduate Students to learn or review aspects of statistical analysis essential for research. Given the dynamic nature of online content, we welcome suggestions for new links to be added (as well […]
Papers: Where To Find Them And How To Read Them
This is a short guide for new students (at the undergraduate & graduate level) of Immunology with pointers on reading primary research articles. So, once you have built up some level of confidence with the words and concepts (using textbooks […]
Funding Sources for Immunology Grad Students
A compilation of places to apply for Grants if you are a pre-doctoral student in Immunology. Check individual links for the most current requirements and dates : Typically, if you are a graduate student at the UMSOM, you dont have […]
GPILS : The UMDSOM graduate program
Details about the graduate programs at the School of Medicine that we participate in. The University of Maryland School of Medicine runs an umbrella graduate program in life sciences (GPILS) which includes 8 sub-programs that are managed individually. In addition […]
Selected Online Resources For Learning Immunology
A selective list of some good audio-visual resources for learning basic immunology online. Trying to search for basic lessons in immunology on the web can be (unfortunately) excessively gratifying. For a new student, the challenge is to identify the genuinely […]
Fun talks for the (budding) Immunologist
There are a lot of thought provoking popular science talks you can watch online .. and here are some we like. This is a new list we just started putting together – focusing on talks for a general audience (we […]
A pre-graduate-school must-read list…
With the information overload today, it is easy to miss out on some eye-opening books that might be very helpful as you prepare for a life in science. Here are some I like: The books listed below are mostly written […]
Electronic Lab Management
Our experiences with software for managing lab data and reagents in silico… Over the last year, we have toyed around with different ways to keep Electronic Lab Notebooks as well as manage lab stocks, reagents, animals etc. on line. It […]