Biodiversity… Playing with wormies, 2025 16 Apr 2025April 16, 2025 Forth those of you who do not know me, I want to share with you one of my favorite research subjects, a particular type of invertebrates (more precisely, flatworms) generically…
Planaria… A cool planarian video 28 Oct 2024October 28, 2024 Hello, I have not posted in a while, I know, and I bow my head in shame. I'll get better. Here's a cool video of two planarian species that I…
Science Checking in 13 Aug 2023 Hi, it’s been a while! I hope that you, the two and a half faithful readers of Baldscientist, are well. All’s better on my side of this life. It has…
Biochemistry… The Pagán Lab: Mentoring Women in STEM since 2006 24 Mar 2019 A walk down memory lane: This is my first research group; they were coauthors of my first few papers as an independent scientist, and more importantly, they caught the dreams…
Flatworms… Happy Epiphany / Three Kings‘ Day … Planarian Style 6 Jan 2019 Three Kings' Day is one of the most important parts of the Christmas season for Hispanic families. It was a big deal when I was little, and I have tried…
Biology… Book review: Planarian Regeneration – Methods and Protocols 12 Aug 2018 This year, Christmas really came in July for this planarian researcher. (:-) I have been waiting for this book for quite a while. If you work or are thinking of…
Biodiversity… Why do I write about flatworms with the layperson in mind? 2 Jun 2018October 16, 2020 We live in a society that is absolutely dependent on the fruits of science and technology yet a significant fraction of our population (and more crucially, many people in power)…
Biology… Dr. Pagán’s Lab Rules – Revised Jan 2018 2 Jan 2018 Hello! I distribute this set of rules to all my research students. I wanted to give you an idea of how I conduct research in my lab... Happy 2018! ~~~…
Biodiversity… Guest posts at the Oxford University Press’ blog : Toxic Flatworms 7 Jun 2017October 24, 2020 Hi! I don't know how did this went pass me. A couple of years ago I reported about a cool paper on some toxic land planarians. It appeared at the…
Biology… Another uplifting Oldie: A wonderful “Thank You” card… 28 Jan 2017 Here's another one to lift our spirits... ~~~ Over the years, several students have surprised me with thoughtful “Thank you” notes, sometimes just to show appreciation for a semester of…
Biology… Darwin Day – Planarians 12 Feb 2016 For Darwin Day 2016. I bet you did not know that Darwin studied planarians too! He did, and the above quote is just a small sample of it. This guy…
Blogging Memory research using planarians 26 Mar 2015 Planarians are truly experiencing a "Golden Age" of neuroscientific discovery. Here is a link to a very well-written and interesting article by the journalist Arielle Duhaime-Ross. I have the honor…
Blogging "The First Brain: The Neuroscience of Planarians" – Table of Contents 9 Feb 2015 INTRODUCTION PART I – FUNDAMENTALS Chapter 1. Science Chapter 2. Biomedical Research PART II – THE SCIENCE OF THE BRAIN Chapter 3. An introduction to the neurosciences Chapter 4. The…
Blogging Our first publication of 2015! Nicotine, Curare, and Planarians, oh my… 24 Jan 2015 I am very proud to announce the e-publication of our first paper of 2015! It was published in the journal Neurochemical Research. Here's the release: Neurochem Res. 2015 Jan 23.…
Blogging Very grateful for a wonderful review of my first book … 12 Jan 2015 A really wonderful review of The First Brain was just published. Here's the text and reference of it, reproduced by kind permission of the author: ========= Pagán, Oné R. The…
Blogging The very best text message I have ever received 20 Nov 2014 I love my kids. About a week ago, I received the **very** best text message ever. It was from Andy, my then 13 year old son (who is already taller than me…
Books… Some aspects of the evolution of "The First Brain" 29 Sep 2014 Yes, this is yet another post about my book...(:-)... I found some old notes and my first scribbles about the epilogue. I wanted to share them with you... I recently…
Blogging… Planarians, Regeneration, and the Medicine of the Future – From Quarks to Quasars 20 Sep 2014 Hi! I would like to share a short interview/profile that the website "From Quarks to Quasars" (http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/) posted about The First Brain and yours truly. You can access the interview…
Biology… Planarian pharmacology and toxicology research is taking off! (:-D) 9 Sep 2014 In a previous post (two years ago - 2012 - , almost at the point of my book publication), I explored the current trends on planarian pharmacology and toxicology (and…
Biology… Great quotes by great scientists – James V. McConnell 6 Sep 2014 Credit: Baldscientist Dr. James V. McConnell, psychologist and the "grandfather" of the modern era of the study of planarian behavior. For more information you can go here and here. Also,…
