User talk:Alondra Vega

Shared Journal Comments

Feel free to put your class journal comments on the page linked to the syllabus. I formatted all future assignments to make it easier for the class. :)

Sarah Carratt 20:22, 30 January 2011 (EST)

Week 2 Journal Feedback

• Thanks for making the suggested changes to your User page based on the feedback from Week 1.
• However, I think you misunderstood one of the things I said. The way that you had put your picture on the page was good, it was visible for us to see you. I was actually talking about the zip and PowerPoint files you had referred to under your "Presentations" section. That is where you want to say "Media" instead of "Image" because we want the link to function to automatically download the file. You actually do want to use the "Image" syntax to display your picture on the page.
• Thank you for submitting your Week 2 assignment on time.
• Remember, when you want to invoke your template so that the template content appears on your page, you need to use the curley brackets, {{ }} instead of the square brackets.
• You have a good level of detail in your description of Figure 1, but could use some more detail for Figures 2 and 3. Make sure you say what the units are and that you understand what they mean.
• You did not need to copy the references from the paper into your outline. References should only be included if you personally read the paper. For your outline, the only reference should be the ter Schure paper itself (unless you did read one or more of those other papers.)

— Kam D. Dahlquist 17:44, 26 January 2011 (EST)

Week 1 Journal Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your assignment on time.
• I have a few suggestions for improving your page.
  • Under your heading "Useful Links", one of your links (to the SGD CIN5 page) has the incorrect syntax for an external link. It just needs a singe set of square brackets. Also, you'll notice that since you did not put a label on the link, it just has a number. It would be more useful with a visible label.
  • When you link to a file that is not an image, please use the wiki syntax of [[Media:exact-name-of-file | visible label]]. Note the use of the word "Media" instead of "Image". When you use the word "Media", the file will automatically download when you click the link. When you use the word "Image", it takes you to the file information page. It is more direct to have the file automatically download.
  • You could add the table of links to the assignment pages to your template so that anytime you use your template on subsequent journal assignments, it will make your life easier. You could also add your Categories to your template so that it will automatically be added each time you use your template.
• You can also delete the automatically generated content from OpenWetWare from your talk page if you want.
• Also, thanks for letting us know about your concerns about reading primary research articles. It was very difficult for me as well when I was an undergraduate. Unfortunately, the only way to get better at it is to practice. Please be sure to come to office hours to go over the papers for the assignments, we are happy to do that.

— Kam D. Dahlquist 20:29, 17 January 2011 (EST)

Responses to Instructor Questions

You asked: Hi Dr. Fitzpatrick! I was wondering how many women were studying Math when you were an undergrad and/or in grad school?Alondra Vega 12:01, 16 January 2011 (EST)

I answered: Ben G. Fitzpatrick 13:54, 16 January 2011 (EST). My undergraduate class was about 25% women, and the grad program at Auburn (where I got my master's) was about the same. The strongest student in that program (by far) was a woman who was hired onto the Auburn faculty after getting her PhD. It's pretty unusual for a department to hire one of its own grads. In my PhD studies we had very few women, probably around 10% of the students. In my previous faculty positions, there were not so many women. At UT Knoxville, I worked a lot with Suzanne Lenhart, who was pretty much my mentor when I was starting out as a fresh assistant professor. She's a great mathematician, a great person, and a super role model for anyone in the profession. If you were to change your mind about nursing and get interested in biomath grad programs, I'd have you get in touch with her.

You asked: "Hi Dr. Dahlquist! I was wondering why you chose to study cell biology other than any other discipline in the Biology field?Alondra Vega 11:57, 16 January 2011 (EST)"

I answered: If you see my answer to Carmen's question above, I was intrigued by cells from when I was very little. I would more properly call myself a Molecular Biologist as opposed to a Cell Biologist because what I am particularly studying is gene regulation which falls more into the area of molecular biology. I am just really interested in how cells work at the molecular level. I am interested in other fields of biology as they intersect with cellular mechanisms. Now that DNA sequencing is so cheap, there are lots of opportunities for field and organismal biologists to ask cellular questions. — Kam D. Dahlquist 20:33, 17 January 2011 (EST)