As India celebrated its 68th Republic day this week and every country in the world honoured our Tricolour, the enthusiasm in the CSG endeavour was no less. This week saw an upsurge of ideas as fellow CSGians initiated and participated actively in discussions on various new themes.
Genetic modifications all the way!!
While CSGians debated the safety of GM crops and their abundance in near future, Indian scientists validate the efficiency to GM mosquitoes to outcompete their disease-causing Aedes aegypti peers. Moreover, genetically engineered immune cells (T-cells) were shown to eliminate tumors in infants.
Taking Science to the Senate
California has become a personal favourite among scientists as fly biologist; Michael Eisen makes his political plans public. Dr. Eisen hopes to win the US senate in 2018 so the views and perspectives of the scientific community are better represented where it matters.
Metallic hydrogen is here!!
Material scientists celebrate, as metallic hydrogen becomes a reality!! This metal, predicted to revolutionise anything from local transportation to rocket science is still undergoing confirmatory tests.
Lights, camera …action!!
Dr.Anshu Malhotra’s research at the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (Emory University) made a debut, in response to idea of promoting research using short video presentations. Fellow CSGians are welcome to showcase their work or any topic of scientific interest through a 1-2 min talk for the benefit of our ever-growing CSG community.
Figuring out where you belong
Natalie Lundsteen asserts why career assessment is essential in this era of multiple career choices and introduces various assessment tools available to young PhDs and post-docs. Needless to say, harmful thought patterns should be kept away during this self-analysing process.
On the scientific front, YouGenomics aims to generate reference genotype panel representing the Indian population / sub-populations, using whole genome sequencing of USA residents of India origin.
Calling out all Sci-entrepreneurs
For PhD’s and post-docs with an insight in science and an aptitude in business, BIRAC (DBT’s interface agency) calls out applications for the Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) Scheme, 2017. A fellow CSGian, Viswa Nadham, has kindly volunteered to offer advise and guidance for those interested.
A small roadmap towards jobs and more
The forum has had some valuable inputs for those contemplating switching jobs and tips on picking your next employer. Moreover, the newbies in the job-hunt arena can benefit from resume writing strategies and what to do on the day of your interview. On the other hand, we have a smart chart to help you plan you new-work-year so you have a productive 2017.
The CSG global village
This week has seen a lot of activity of CSG in response to various polls. Please respond to our polls to help us form a localised community in your vicinity. CSG Europe is slowly taking shape while communities in US, Singapore and Europe (soon) plan annual meets to improve the networking policy of CSG. A CSG world map has also been created to gauge how widespread our community is.
Club SciWri to flaunt CSGian Research
Club SciWri invites fellow CSGians to showcase any interesting piece of work you are reading in the field of immunotherapy, immunooncology, oncology, neuroscience, microbiome etc. We wish to contribute to the weekly development of scientific awareness and to appreciate the various innovations we have coming our way. Please write to us at sciwri2016@gmail.com.
Taking lessons from the learned ones
A kind reminder to those interested on transitioning from academia to apply for the Mentor-Mentee program 2017 by CSG by Jan 31st, 2017. Make the most of this opportunity to tap into the knowledge and experience of our kind mentors to make your dream job a reality.
Have a great week ahead.
Nisha Peter
