The Upside of Rejection
Publish or perish. After years of hard work, months of effort are invested into writing, submitting, and revising a paper with the aim of publishing in a high impact journal.[…]
Monthly Archive: January 2013
Mismatched MHC and Human Mating Choices
The immune system and mating behavior of vertebrates appear to be closely linked. In a now classically unpleasant experiment, female students not taking oral contraceptives were asked to rate the[…]
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Catching Up With Our Alumni
We got in touch with a few of the recent (or soon to be) graduates of our department to see what they are up to now, and to get some[…]
Cracks in the Foundation
How data fabrication, misrepresentation and irreproducibility are wasting research efforts and undermining our confidence in scientific literature Fraud. Misrepresentation. Plagiarism. In the science community, words such as these are rare,[…]
Lessons from SciChat: What’s in the Dirt?
SciChat is an outreach initiative started by the graduate students in the Department of Immunology that focuses on providing comprehensive science education to adults. This recurring segment focuses on answering[…]
It’s Not All About T cells: Dendritic Cell Development in the Thymus
Among the vast T cell population in the thymus are some dendritic cells (DCs) that home to the medullary regions. Some studies have shown that these DCs can obtain self-peptides[…]
Great Expectations
A comparison of two high-impact immunology papers published 42 years apart the months leading up to my qualifying exam, I had the inexplicable desire to read every research paper that[…]
Featured Article · Perspective
The Expendable PhD
An essay on the modern system of science: The expendable PhD Research and training go hand in hand…there are no incentives to engage in birth control when it is the[…]
Past, Present and Future Directions
A perspective of the changes that have shaped immunology and the Department over the last 30 years As we approach nearly three decades of research at the Department of Immunology,[…]
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