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The Future of Phenomics Enabled Biology: Key Takeaways from Phenome 2018

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The Future of Phenomics Enabled Biology: Key Takeaways from Phenome 2018 Recorded March 2018  About This Webinar: In this webinar, Carolyn Lawrence-Dill and Joshua Peschel, members of the Phenome 2018 Organizing Committee, discuss the key takeaways from the February 2018 conference held in Tucson,…

You Too Can Be On YouTube: Learn How to Create Engaging Science Communication Videos with Molly Edwards

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You Too Can Be On YouTube: Learn How to Create Engaging Science Communication Videos with Molly Edwards Recorded February 2018  About This Webinar: Join the discussion with Molly Edwards, a graduate student in the Kramer Lab at Harvard University. With funding she received from ASPB’s BLOOME…

Communicate Your Research Work Efficiently Using Graphical Abstracts with Frédéric Bouché

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  About this Webinar: Research takes time—a lot of time. Once your manuscript is submitted, the reviewing process takes time—a lot of time. When your paper is finally published, you want it to be noticed by the scientific community – you want it to stand out and get noticed. One way…

Plants, Rumors and Imaging Spectroscopy with Alina Zare

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Plants, Rumors and Imaging Spectroscopy Recorded February 2018    About this Webinar: Most supervised machine learning algorithms assume that each training data point is paired with an accurate training label (for classification) or value (for regression). However, obtaining accurate…

WordPress 101 for Plant Scientists with Julia Miller

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WordPress 101 for Plant Scientists with Julia Miller Recorded February 2018  WordPress is the most popular self-hosted blogging tool in the world. It powers millions of websites because it is easy to learn to use. This webinar covers the basics of WordPress so you can start creating your own website…

Taking Plants off This Planet: What Does Spaceflight Teach Us about Biology, Adaptation and Our Place in the Universe

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Taking Plants off This Planet: What Does Spaceflight Teach Us about Biology, Adaptation and Our Place in the Universe Recorded February 2018      About this Webinar: The study of space biology, along with astrobiology and exobiology, challenges plant science to actually probe the…

Getting the most out of RNA-seq data with expVIP

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Getting the most out of RNA-seq data with expVIP Recorded February 2018    About this Webinar: In this webinar, we discuss the use of expVIP, an expression Visualisation and Integration Platform, which allows easy analysis of RNA-seq data combined with an intuitive and interactive visualization…

Talking about talking about plant science with Professor Daniel Chamovitz

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About this Webinar: Dr. Chamovitz is a sought-after speaker and science commentator. His 2012 book What a Plant Knows has been published in 13 languages, was voted Top 10 in Amazon and is often referred to in discussions on plant senses and intelligence. He has been interviewed in newspapers…

Images for Impact – How-to tips. Created for the Plantae Seminar Series

Earlier this year I gave a Plantae seminar on "Images for Impact" - simple, free tips about how to source and create images to use in your science writing and communicating. Here is the text of the handout I created to accompany the seminar. You can get this as a PDF here. You can download the…