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Bitesize Bio is an online magazine and community for molecular and cell biology researchers. We serve up a delicious, bite-sized plate of technical tips, advice, news and much more to keep your professional brain well nourished.

Join us for a new bite every weekday, and if you are hungry for more, our archive is packed with hundreds of useful bites for you to enjoy.

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Bitesize Bio Authors

Nick Oswald (Nick)

Articles: 215

Nick is a molecular biologist-turned-publisher. After a PhD in Developmental Biology and an eclectic seven years in biotech he is now Editorial Manager of Neuroendocrinology and the founder and Editor-In-Chief of Bitesize Bio. You are welcome to connect with Nick on LinkedIn

Dan Rhoads (Dan)

Articles: 168

Dan is a postdoc working at the University of Cyprus in developmental biology. He has a BSc in molecular biology and a PhD pharmacology and biochemistry.

Suzanne Kennedy (Suzanne)

Articles: 48

Suzanne is Director of R&D at Mo Bio Laboratories in California, and the author of their blog, The Culture Dish. She has a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Travis Medley (Travis)

Articles: 17

Travis is the President of Simply Biotech, a specialized recruiting and staffing firm dedicated exclusively to the biotech industry in San Diego County. More information may be found at www.simplybiotech.com

Carrie Iwema (Carrie)

Articles: 11

Carrie is an Information Specialist in Molecular Biology for the Health Sciences Library System at the University of Pittsburgh. She has a PhD in Neuroscience and a Masters in Library Science.

Shoba Anantha (Shoba)

Articles: 11

Shoba is Technical Specialist at a small biotech company in Wisconsin. She has MS in Biology/Information Technology from the University of North Carolina.

Paul Hengen (Paul)

Articles: 7

Bala Chandar (Bala)

Articles: 6

Liam Thompson (Liam)

Articles: 5

Senthil Gandi (Gandi)

Articles: 4

Gandi is a Ph.D student in Medical Microbiology at the University of Edinburgh. Having graduated with a degree in Biotechnology, merging cool scientific knowledge into industry became his interest. So he worked for two years for a small biotech company and realised doing a Ph.D was the way forward. He has a keen interest for new technologies and always thinking about spreading the great works of Bitesizebio further.

Douglas McCormick (Douglas)

Articles: 3

Doug McCormick is a biology writer and editor. He was most recently editorial director of BioTechniques, a journal of life-science research methods, and was previously editor in chief Pharmaceutical Technology (covering drug manufacturing), founder of Physician Verification Services (online prescriber-authentication system), vice president of BioNetWork (e-commerce for research supplies), corporate director of science public policy at SmithKline Beecham, editorial director of Nature Publishing Company, and editor of Bio/Technology (now Nature Biotechnology).

Terry Bell (Terry)

Articles: 3

John Mackay (John)

Articles: 3

John is interested in using molecular diagnostics to solve industry issues - working on samples as diverse as wine, truffles, grapevine and human. He also consults on PCR and real-time PCR assay development as technical director for the company dnature.

Andrew Porterfield (Andrew)

Articles: 3

Andrew is a marketing editor for Life Technologies, and started writing about science when people used electric typewriters. He's working on an M.S. in biotechnology from the University of Maryland.

Robert Kozlovski (Rob)

Articles: 3

Aida Baida Gil (Aida)

Articles: 2

Aida is a geneticist and certified life coach. She helps scientists to achieve their best career/life balance and next professional step. Visit www.experimentyourlife.com to schedule a free consulation, and subscribe to her newsletter to receive monthly coaching tips.

Alex Tan (Alex)

Articles: 2

Alex has a PhD in molecular biology and biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. When she isn't finishing up "the project that wouldn't die" or packing boxes, she's job hunting in Berkeley, California.

Victoria Aranda (Victoria)

Articles: 2

Victoria is a postdoc working on breast cancer at Cold Spring Harbor Lab. She has a PhD in Biochemistry and a history of close encounters with molecular and cell biology that she likes to write about.

Eric J. Perkins (Eric Perkins)

Articles: 2

Eric is a Senior Scientist at Addgene, the non-profit plasmid repository. He also consults for LabLife.org.

Emily Crow (Emily)

Articles: 2

Emily Crow is a graduate student at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. While her current work is in the field of prion biology, she is interested in a broad range of topics, including epigenetics, microbiology, and emerging diseases.

Max Haeussler (Max)

Articles: 2

Guest Writer (GuestWriter)

Articles: 1

If you would like to contribute an article as a guest writer, please get in touch with us via the contact button.

Christopher (Christopher)

Articles: 1

Christopher earned his Ph.D. and completed his post-doc. He is currently exploring the many avenues available to a person trained in critical thinking and problem solving. When he's not freelancing, he can be found out in the field perfecting his photography.

Neil Ravenhill (neilravenhill)

Articles: 1

Jode Plank (Jode)

Articles: 1

Jode is a Postdoctoral Fellow studying DNA repair at the University of California at Davis. He received his PhD in Biochemistry from Duke University.

Johannes Kabisch (Johannes)

Articles: 1

I am currently employed at the University of Greifswald, Germany and am working on my PhD in Molecular/Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. The main focus on my work is metabolic engineering and bacterial expression systems. My newest sideline is high-throughput sequencing and annotation.

Greg Caramenico (greg)

Articles: 1

After undergraduate work in molecular and cell biology, Greg received his MA in history from Vanderbilt University. He has worked on various topics in intellectual history and the history of biology, especially on theories of memory in premodern and modern science.

Chris Dieni (Christopher)

Articles: 1

Chris is a postdoc at Penn State in cancer biochemistry. He has a PhD in Chemistry from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where he studied the comparative biochemistry and physiology of frogs that could freeze solid and thaw back to life, as naturally as we go to sleep and wake up.

Anisha Zaveri (Anisha)

Articles: 1

Anisha Zaveri is a graduate student of Biology at IISc. An avid reader of biology, she is also an enthusiastic writer on the subject. Presently befuddled with selecting a particle plushy, she has a tightly focused (not!) blog at etc.

Peter Blazso (Peter)

Articles: 1

Peter is an MD and on its way to receive his PhD in genetics at the BRC of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is an enthusiastic computer hacker as well.

Alma Zecevic (Alma)

Articles: 1

Alma has a Ph.D. in pathobiology from Brown University and is currently a post-doc at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston studying chemotherapy and DNA damage

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