To be completely transparent, currently I am not working on research for my #SciFund challenge proposal. The reason for this is because I am working on an IGERT proposal (which I openly published yesterday). There is a preproposal competition within UNM to pick the very best IGERT proposal to send to the NSF. Preproposals are due May 10 (next Thursday!).

So I am doing my very best to write a killer proposal to bring open science education to students here at UNM and even in other institutions.

Unfortunately on May 9th I will be going on travel (Portland, Oregon) and will return May 14. At that point I will continue my experiments of E. coli and Yeast growth in different water types.

I just received my yeast order from ATCC.org and will be beginning the experiments with this new yeast (strain information to be posted next week).

Feel free to check out my updates to the proposal every day until the 10th, and if you have a desire to collaborate on this proposal and program contact me! After all open science isn’t about hoarding information and it shouldn’t be about hoarding grants either.