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Author: Nicole M. Baker

Nicole M. Baker received her PhD from the Department of Pharmacology at UNC in September 2016. She is currently a member of the Der Lab where she studies the role of p21-activated kinases in regulating the growth and metabolism of KRAS-mutant pancreatic cancer cells. Nicole's interest in pursuing a career in scientific writing led her to start SWAC. She was both a co-founder and the first SWAC President. Her hobbies include reading, playing cello, laughing when it’s inappropriate, and playing difficult video games and bragging about it to people who don’t care.

Blog / A Future of Building Designer Cells

August 2, 2016August 1, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

If you haven’t seen the cinematic masterpiece that is Jurassic Park, drop what you’re doing and go watch it now. Even if you don’t dig dinosaurs, there’s an immaculate scene…

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Cell Biology DNA Editing Human Genome Science News

Blog / New Series: Behind the Scenes of Lab Science

April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker / 2

When you work in an academic lab and are fully engaged in your research, it’s easy to overlook all of the people that provide support for your experiments and keep…

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Behind the scenes careers Graduate School Industry molecular biology

Blog / The Quantum Mechanics Behind Biology

October 23, 2015January 25, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

If you have any interest in science and have ever contemplated your existence within the confines of this universe, chances are that you’ve come across an interactive Flash-based animation called…

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Quantum Biology Quantum Mechanics Weird Science

Blog / The Trouble with Reproducibility in Science

August 11, 2015March 1, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

As scientists, many of us have read a paper, been inspired by the glamorous data, carefully followed the methods section in order to replicate the results in our own hands,…

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Feature Article Reproducibility Science News Scientific Process

Blog / Science Fail Monday: Requiem for a Western Blot

June 1, 2015January 28, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

Requiem for a Western Blot: A Haiku on Reversing the Positive and Negative Electrodes Two weeks to prepare It’s time to transfer this gel Data finally? Excitement building Put the…

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Science Fail western blot

Blog / May 2015 SWAC Seminar: Mark Derewicz

May 19, 2015October 6, 2019 / Nicole M. Baker /

Speaker: Mark Derewicz, Science Communications Manager at UNC School of Medicine/UNC Health Care Date: May 26th, 2015 Time: 5:30 PM Location: Bondurant Hall, Room G030 Event Link: https://swac.web.unc.edu/event/mark-derewicz-seminar/ Last month,…

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Blog / NCI Ras Initiative: Let’s get together and drug RAS!

May 15, 2015March 1, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

Non-scientist friends and relatives often ask me whether I am “curing” cancer, and question why the cure for cancer doesn’t already exist following decades of funding for research. Worse, some…

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Cancer RAS Science News UNC-CH Research

Blog / Inaugural Science Fail Monday: Filter Fail

April 27, 2015January 28, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

For weeks, I struggled to produce a successful harvest of lentivirus. I needed to transduce my pancreatic cancer cell lines with shRNA targeting my gene of interest. This is a…

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Science Fail

Blog / Introduction and Invitation to SWAC’s Monthly Seminar Series

April 24, 2015October 6, 2019 / Nicole M. Baker /

SWAC’s First Monthly Seminar: Lauren Neighbours, PhD, RAC Wednesday, April 29th at 5:30 PM Bondurant Hall, Rm. G074        In my fourth year of graduate school, I decided…

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