NCBI Tech Talk and Booth at the American Society for Cell Biology 2016 National Meeting

NLM Exhibit Provides Backstory, Complexity to What We Know About Slavery

12/02/2016 12:00 PM EST

By about 4:30 a.m. every day, two colonial- era cooks—Nathan and Lucy, both slaves—were well into their typical work day on Mount Vernon plantation near Alexandria, Va. We know from historical record that a cook’s duties would have included lighting fires in the kitchen hearth for breakfast prep, and perhaps in the dining room for…

NCBI Tech Talk and Booth at the American Society for Cell Biology 2016 National Meeting

12/02/2016 11:24 AM EST

NCBI staff will be participating in the ASCB 2016 National Meeting from Sunday, December 4 to Tuesday, December 6. We will be at booth #939 from 9AM -4PM PDT Sunday to Tuesday, and will present a Tech Talk on Sunday, December 4 at 5:30PM PDT in Theater 2.

NCBI Tech Talk and Booth at the American Society for Cell Biology 2016 National Meeting

Friday, December 2, 2016

NCBI staff will be participating in the ASCB 2016 National Meeting from Sunday, December 4 to Tuesday, December 6. We will be at booth #939 from 9AM -4PM PDT Sunday to Tuesday, and will present a Tech Talk on Sunday, December 4 at 5:30PM PDT in Theater 2.

The Tech Talk, "Five Useful Teaching Examples Using NCBI BLAST", will present demonstrations that highlight features of BLAST. These readily adaptable examples are useful for teaching biology principles and techniques including evolution, gene expression analysis and more.