I made a poster format in latex for my presentation last year at the Society for Mathematical Biology annual meeting. This paper was just accepted for publication! 😀 Check out the source files here. This poster is 3'x4'. Some of the formatting is a bit creative, but in general I used the tcolorbox package to… Continue reading Latex poster format – Cool tones
Month: June 2018
How to make a 20$ fabric poster
Spoonflower offers custom digitally printed fabric for only 22$. Choose "performance knit" as your fabric, and the yard size is a generous 54". You can print any size poster by centering the image and trimming later on. Check out how nice the text looks in this shot - take into consideration my potato camera! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bgwb1SqARnj/?taken-by=ultimate_algorithm_cyborg… Continue reading How to make a 20$ fabric poster
Computational Plant Science – Clustering in R Tutorial
Last week was the Plantae Seminar "Computational Plant Science - Science at the Interface of Math, Computer Science, and Plant Biology with Alexander Bucksch": Dr. Bucksch mentions using two clustering techniques - B splines and K-means clustering. I've discussed K-means clustering in a previous post to analyze predictors of success in Settlers of Catan. B splines… Continue reading Computational Plant Science – Clustering in R Tutorial
Low IQ scores predict excellence in data science
Great argument. Definitely a problem with IQ tests that necer occurred to me! https://wp.me/pRx4V-3Cz
Interview: Technology as a tool in teaching quantitative biology
Shelby Scott and Miranda Chen recently published the article Technology as a tool in teaching quantitative biology at the secondary and undergraduate levels. You can find the paper here. In this interview, the authors describe what they see as the next steps for integrating quantitative methods into biological curriculum and tons of online resources to get you started. This information will help… Continue reading Interview: Technology as a tool in teaching quantitative biology
Why I published in PLoS ONE. And why I probably won’t again for awhile.
Article discussion: What do Phytochromes do in roots?
A couple of days ago Magdalena Julkowska (https://twitter.com/mmjulkowska) asked in a tweet what my opinion is about a recent article
Would love to hear what @ronaldpierik@GelderenKasper think about this paper!
— Magdalena Julkowska (@mmjulkowska) May 17, 2018
So Magda, this one is especially for you 🙂
She asked this, because she knows that this topic is of great interest to me. So what is it?
The article “Root‐expressed phytochromes B1 and B2, but not PhyA and Cry2, regulate shoot growth in nature”, by Oh et al., from the Ian Baldwin lab, was recently published in Plant Cell and Environment. It tries to address the question what the role is of the phytochrome light receptors in plant roots, which obviously grow in an environment of relative darkness.
This is a topic which we ourselves have discussed as well, although as a sideline from the main part, in two recent articles:…
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Guest post: Who am I?
a chemist Or at least that’s what I’d probably say if you caught me on the street. Fact is, for modern scientists, there can be a painstakingly high degree of specialization, minutiae, and technical training entangled with their work. Some areas of science are somewhat relatable due to the high amount of news coverage –… Continue reading Guest post: Who am I?
i am become computational 