In this month's (slightly late) edition: my second video with the International Society for Stem Cell Research + reflecting on the past 10 months + working on lots of research projects
Hey! I’m a 15 y/o student researcher obsessed with learning about stem cells and developmental biology 🧪 Everyday, I aspire to uncover the secrets of stem cells and learn something new! I love following my curiosity and enjoy playing music too!
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We have lots of new subscribers this month so welcome! It was great getting to meet you all at ISSCR 2021. Let's see what's in store...
Making the Most of Your First Scientific Conference 🏆
10 Months. 10 Questions. 5 Takeaways 🌱
Works in Progress 🗓
Resources To Check Out 🖥
Making the Most of Your First Scientific Conference 🏆
For those of you that don't know, I got the opportunity to attend the International Society for Stem Cell Research's annual meeting this year and learned a bunch from both a scientific and professional development aspect!
So for my second video in collaboration with them, I decided to take a different direction and talk about everything I learned from attending ISSCR 2021!
I share my top 5 tips for making the most of a conference as a first-time or younger attendee:
Make a schedule of sessions you want to attend beforehand
For the past 10 months, I've been on a journey of growth both through a program for high schoolers called TKS and on my own. I've worked on projects that I never thought I would and I've definitely learned a lot along the way.
So in this article, I reflected on that through an interview-style Q&A and thanked some amazing people who've helped me along the way!
Why explain the other projects I've been up to in words when I can use a gif?!
In case you still want a written summary: I've focused on 3 main, awesome projects that are still in progress this month...
Researching for a paper about histone modifications 🧬
Writing a viewpoint about a novel approach to Parkinson's 🧠
Doing hands-on work with zebrafish 🐟
Resources To Check Out 🖥
How The Olympic Medal Table Explains The World: Imagine an alien only has access to the last century's Olympic medal tables... what could they find out about our world? That's the premise for this amazing article!
How to Get Things Done When You Don’t Want to Do Anything: By separating motivation into controlled–where you're driven by guilt, people-pleasing, deadlines, etc.–and autonomous–where you feel in control and you truly want to be doing the task–this NYT articles teaches you how to find more of the latter kind of motivation!
Feel free to reply to this email with any comments, feedback, or insights. I'd love to hear from you! Expect some crazy, exciting updates next time as a few of my projects come to an end. 'Til next time 👋
