As the new year arrives, all we hear about is New Year’s resolutions for 2011. BiteSize Bio‘s Emily Crow recently listed her New Year’s Resolutions for the Lab including “I will start writing all manuscripts and/or articles more than one week before the deadline” and “I will read the paper for journal club ahead of time, not as I walk to the conference room.”...

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PhD student Alejandro Montenegro-Montero is our featured scientist of the month. Make sure to check out Alejandro’s blog, MolBio Research Highlights, and follow him on twitter....

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In the following TED Talk, journalist Chris Anderson discusses how web video powers global innovation. We touched upon this last year when we discussed the rise of video protocol sites. JoVE, which Anderson mentions, and BenchFly are sites where scientists publicly share their techiniques, tips and and methods with the scientific community – via video. These sites are used daily by researchers who are looking for more information regarding experminents they are working on. ...

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During the time I spent researching with Professor Zach Adam at Hebrew University, I visited Dr. Ralph Bock’s lab at the Max Planck Institute in Germany to learn how to transform plastids (see plastid transformation protocol). It was a relatively new method, and I was eager to learn all that I could. My main concern was that I would miss something and upon my return to Israel, I would be unable to recreate what I had learned. I remember the surprise of my German colleagues when I pulled out my camera, and began to take photos of every step of the procedure. Visiting the Institute was a great learning experience, and when I returned my fellow lab members had a step-by-step photographed protocol depicting how plastids can be transformed....

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