Anne in Biological News

American Society for Microbiology honors Anne M. Vidaver

Washington, DCMay 28, 2008The 2008 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Founders Distinguished Service Award is being presented to Anne M. Vidaver, Professor of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. This award recognizes an ASM member for outstanding contributions and commitment to ...

Biologists rediscover endangered frog population

...g to its native habitat. The Zoo's breeding program, in conjunction with its partners, began after the rare frogs were rescued from a drying creek. anne Poopatanapong, a wildlife biologist for the San Jacinto Ranger District in the San Bernardino National Forest was monitoring declining creek water lev...

Mount Sinai's Dr. Benjamin tenOever to be honored by White House

...y Council's recognition of Dr. tenOever's work and contributions will help us further the study of viral infection," said Dennis S. Charney, M.D., the anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. "Mount...

Dual role in breast tissue for a protein involved in leukemia

...nction impacts the breast, especially since it appears it may play different roles in different types of breast cancer," says the study's lead author, anne Miermont, MS, a doctoral graduate student in tumor biology at Georgetown University Medical Center. Stat5a is a member of the STAT family of protein...

'Honey bee health' of concern at Western Apicultural Society conference

... an additional-cost seminar taught by bee expert, writer and instructor Larry Conner of Kalamazoo, Mich. The tour participants will hear a talk by anne Teller of Oak Hill Farm, Sonoma, an organic producer of field crops, flowers and baked products; and visit the Glen Ellen hilltop apiary of Serge Lab...

USC researchers present diabetes findings at American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions

...sentations. Researchers are available at the meeting to discuss their findings and provide expert commentary on diabetes research. Exercise anne Peters, M.D., professor of medicine and director, USC Westside Center for Diabetes will discuss her research on the management of diabetes treatment, ...

Continuous glucose monitoring technology -- special issue of Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics

...allenges that CGM must still overcome, whether technical, practical, or economic. In the editorial, "Do We Really Need Continuous Glucose Monitoring?" anne Peters, MD, from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine (Los Angeles), points out some of the drawbacks of current CGM technolo...

George M. Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus prize in the chemical sciences

...ho has generated so much value to society based on his innovative chemistry research. It reflects the Dreyfus Foundation charter admirably." Marye anne Fox, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, and Chair of the Dreyfus Scientific Affairs Committee, noted, "George has revolutionized m...

DOE funds bio-inspired solar fuel center at Arizona State

...development." ASU principal investigators on the project in addition to Gust include: professors James Allen, Petra Fromme, Giovanna Ghirlanda, anne Jones, Yan Liu, Ana Moore, Thomas Moore, Kevin Redding, Dong-Kyun Seo and Hao Yan, as well as Clark Miller from the Consortium for Science, Policy & O...

Regional partnership to develop algal biofuels gets backing of San Diego leaders

... San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders today joined UC San Diego Chancellor Marye anne Fox, local scientists and industry leaders to announce their support for a regional partnership designed to develop innovative ways to turn algae into...

ONR announces 2009 Young Investigator Award recipients

...Adam Cohen, Harvard College; Dr. Michael Freedman, Princeton University; Dr. Farinaz Koushanfar, Rice University; Dr. Ping Li, Cornell University; Dr. anne McNeil, University of Michigan; Dr. Aydogan Ozcan, University of California - Los Angeles; Dr. Tomas Palacios, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; ...

Keeping golf courses green when fresh water is limited

...atures, related damage to equipment, long-term salt buildup in soil, and increased levels of turfgrass stress. To address these and other concerns, anne M. Lockett and Dale Devitt of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and Robert L. Morris of the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Service, desi...

HPV vaccine may prevent preterm births

... of a woman giving birth preterm in subsequent pregnancies. In a newly published study in Acta Obstretica et Gynecologica , Katrine D. Sjborg and anne Eskild calculated how many preterm deliveries could be avoided by systematic HPV-vaccination. Sjborg is a consultant at stfold Hospital and Eskild is ...

Geologists map rocks to soak CO2 from air

...the map as part of his PhD. dissertation, with help from another Columbia student, Christopher Graves, and two USGS researchers, Bradley Van Gosen and anne McCafferty. By combining more than a hundred existing maps, the researchers were able to pinpoint the areas nationally where ultramafic rocks are most...

Low levels of vitamin B12 may increase risk for neural tube defects

...o reduce the occurrence of neural tube defects in the U.S. population. The study appears in the March Pediatrics . The study's first author was anne M. Molloy, Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin. Scientists from the Health Research Board of Ireland and two NIH institutes, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Nat...

Analysis of fresh strawberries reveals consumer preferences

...ty of Florida breeding program, as well as the impact of harvest date on the fruits' chemical and sensory characteristics. According to lead author anne Plotto of the USDA-ARS, the researchers evaluated five selections and one cultivar of the University of Florida breeding program as well as two new cu...

New book expands field data available on orangutans

...evolutionizes my perspective and thinking into the level of variation we might expect in orangutans in captivity." Another contributing author, Dr. anne Russon, said the book is noteworthy not only because it systematically attempts to consider orangutan biology and conservation across the whole of the...

'Neurological work-arounds' offer hope to people with monoamine-related disorders

...g addiction, depression, Parkinson's disease, and schizophrenia. David Krantz, Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and anne Simon, now an Assistant Professor at York College of the City University of New York were the two lead investigators on the study. "Illnesses such as ...

Small male chimps use politics, rather than aggression, to lead the pack, U of Minnesota study says

...wed extraordinary creativity and tenacity in pulling together this study while still an undergraduate and then seeing it through to publication," said anne Pusey, who was senior author. Pusey is director of the Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies at the University of Minnesota and a Univer...

Results of the third school nutrition dietary assessment study published

...ams and Congress takes up reauthorization of the school nutrition programs again in 2009, the SNDA-III findings are particularly important," commented anne Gordon, PhD, a senior researcher at Mathematica in Princeton, NJ, who led the SNDA-III analysis. "Future studies will look back to SNDA-III to examin...

Scientists uncover new genetic variations linked to psoriasis

...enetics . "Taken together, the studies help us get closer to realizing the promise of personalized medicine," says a senior author of both papers, anne Bowcock, Ph.D., professor of genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "Eventually, we hope to be able target treatments to p...

Fewer deaths with preventive antibiotic use

...hether the advantages of using antibiotics as a preventive measure offset the drawback of the possibility of developing antibiotic resistance. For Dr. anne Marie de Smet, anesthesiologist-intensivist at UMC Utrecht and the article's first author, the conclusion is clear. In the Netherlands, every year ...

In many fungi, reproductive spores are remarkably aerodynamic

...e of aerodynamics in reproductive success. Spores transported by animals lack the drag-minimizing shapes seen among airborne spores, says co-author anne Pringle, a mycologist. "A well known ascomycete, the truffle, spreads its spores when it is eaten and egested by animals," says Pringle, assistant ...

Study first to pinpoint why analgesic drugs may be less potent in females than in males

...singly clear that morphine is significantly less potent in women compared with men. Until now, the mechanism driving the phenomenon was unknown," said anne Murphy, Ph.D., a Georgia State Professor of Neuroscience and member of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, who conducted the research with Dayna L...

NAS announces initiative to connect entertainment industry with top experts

...ional Academy of Sciences; CuresNow founding members Lucy Fisher, Doug Wick, and Janet and Jerry Zucker; Davis Masten and Christopher Ireland; Bob and anne James; the California Endowment in partnership with Hollywood, Health & Society; and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The director of the Scie...

Natural and social sciences: ICSU embraces the need to work more closely together

...sues cannot be solved without understanding the impact of people on these issues and the impact of these issues on peoplethat is, social science, said anne Whyte, a member of ICSUs Committee on Scientific Planning and Review (CSPR) and a former Director General for Environment and Natural Resources of th...

Flooding might help lower gas emission from wetlands

...r the two study years by Mitsch, also an environment and natural resources professor at the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, and study co-author anne Altor, a former Ohio State graduate student who is now a consultant in Indianapolis. During both years, more methane was emitted during the summer tha...

Penn announces $50M Penn Integrates Knowledge neurosciences initiative

...h Center intended to accelerate the conversion of cutting-edge research into new therapies and treatments and funded by a recent $50 million gift from anne and Jerome Fisher. A new Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building in the School of Arts and Sciences designed to integrate research and education in p...

Study: Typhoons bury tons of carbon in the oceans

...at were being washed out to sea while a typhoon was happening at full force -- will help scientists develop better models of global climate change. anne Carey, associate professor of earth sciences at Ohio State, said that she and her colleagues have braved two typhoons since starting the project in 20...

Toxic chemicals found in common scented laundry products, air fresheners

...se people were telling me that the air fresheners in public restrooms and the scent from laundry products vented outdoors were making them sick," said anne Steinemann, a UW professor of civil and environmental engineering and of public affairs. "And I wanted to know, 'What's in these products that is caus...

UC San Diego launches Institute of Engineering in Medicine to accelerate health care tech

... "As is our tradition at UC San Diego, we are bringing together diverse fields of science to catalyze innovation in unconventional ways," said Marye anne Fox, chancellor of UC San Diego. "The goal of this new organized research unit is to improve health care delivery through new tools, technologies and ...

Satellites illuminate pollution's influence on clouds

...nstellation, more commonly called the A-Train. "Typically, it is very hard to get a sense of how important the effect of pollution on clouds is," said anne Douglass, deputy project scientist at Goddard for NASAs Aura satellite. "With the A-Train, we can see the clouds every day and we're getting confirmat...

The cooperative view: New evidence suggests a symbiogenetic origin for the centrosome

... MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA There are two ways in which cooperation is the theme of a paper published this week by Mark Alliegro and Mary anne Alliegro, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratorys (MBL) Josephine Bay Paul Center. One is revealed in the papers acknowledgements, where t...

Decade of the Mind symposium in Iowa to emphasize need for $4 billion in federal support

... behaviors of modern African apes and on the manufacture and use of early Paleolithic tools. Their session is titled The Human Mind Evolving. Dr. anne Russon, a professor of psychology at Glendon College of York University, Toronto, Canada. Russon has been studying intelligence and learning in ex-cap...

Learning and the brain

...man Professor of Neuroscience Research, along with anne Rosenfeld and Kelly Williams. The 20th edition of ...nce has the potential to transform education, said anne Rosenfeld, conference president. Conference pa...de ago when Kosik met with conference coordinators anne Rosenfeld and Kelly Williams. Rosenfeld and Willia...

Harold Mooney wins prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

...us winners of the Tyler Prize include anthropologist Jane Goodall; C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General of the United States; and Stanford faculty anne and Paul Ehrlich, in 1998, and Perry McCarty, in 1992. The Tyler Prize is the latest in a string of recent major awards for Mooney. In February, he...

Great Ape Trust to gather internationally recognized scientists for Decade of the Mind III

... behaviors of modern African apes and on the manufacture and use of early Paleolithic tools. Their session is titled The Human Mind Evolving. Dr. anne Russon, a professor of psychology at Glendon College of York University, Toronto, Canada. Russon has been studying intelligence and learning in ex-cap...

Scientists launch human oral microbiome database

...rs. The research team that developed the Human Oral Microbiome Database includes Forsyth scientists Drs. Floyd Dewhirst, Tsute Chen, Jacques Izard, anne Tanner, Bruce Paster; and from Kings College London, Dr. William Wade. We believe that the Human Oral Microbiome Database will be very useful, not onl...

Plant gene clusters for natural products

...vered a previously unknown gene cluster making a related compound in a very different species, and now want to extend the search to other plants. anne Osbourn and colleagues previously found that the genes needed to make an antifungal compound in oats, called avenacin, were next to each other in the ...

Lemurs' evolutionary history may shed light on our own

...d lemurs, by helping to define the number of existing species, said David Weisrock, a post-doctoral researcher working with Duke Lemur Center Director anne Yoder. The researchers report their findings in the March 1 issue of Genome Research. Scientists uncover evolutionary relationships among speci...