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- March 17, 2011
- 08:00 AM
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Liton Roy: Career Scientist
by Susan Steinhardt in The PostDoc Forum
Read on to find out why Liton decided to pursue a career in chemistry and his passion for Alzheimer’s disease research.... Read more »
Roy L, & Case MA. (2011) Recursively enriched dynamic combinatorial libraries for the self-selection of optimally stable proteins. The journal of physical chemistry. B, 115(10), 2454-64. PMID: 21344934
Roy L, & Case MA. (2009) Electrostatic determinants of stability in parallel 3-stranded coiled coils. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 192-4. PMID: 19099065
- March 17, 2011
- 07:40 AM
- 349 views
Liton Roy: Career Chemist
by Susan Steinhardt in The PostDoc Forum
Postdoc Liton Roy is our featured scientist of the month. You can find Liton on LinkedIn, twitter @LitonRoy, and his website. Read on to find out why Liton decided to pursue a career in chemistry and his passion for Alzheimer’s disease research. How did you first become interested in Science? I was good at Math [...]... Read more »
Roy L, & Case MA. (2011) Recursively enriched dynamic combinatorial libraries for the self-selection of optimally stable proteins. The journal of physical chemistry. B, 115(10), 2454-64. PMID: 21344934
Roy L, & Case MA. (2009) Electrostatic determinants of stability in parallel 3-stranded coiled coils. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 192-4. PMID: 19099065
- November 18, 2010
- 11:00 AM
- 349 views
Giordano da Silva: Teaching Scientist
by Susan Steinhardt in The PostDoc Forum
Postdoc Gio da Silva is our Featured Scientist of the Month. Read on to find out more about his passion for the sciences and love of teaching as well as valuable tips about choosing a Postdoc lab and maintaining organization in the lab.... Read more »
Tay WM, Epperson JD, da Silva GF, & Ming LJ. (2010) 1H NMR, mechanism, and mononuclear oxidative activity of the antibiotic metallopeptide bacitracin: the role of D-Glu-4, interaction with pyrophosphate moiety, DNA binding and cleavage, and bioactivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(16), 5652-61. PMID: 20359222
da Silva GF, Lykourinou V, Angerhofer A, & Ming LJ. (2009) Methionine does not reduce Cu(II)-beta-amyloid!--rectification of the roles of methionine-35 and reducing agents in metal-centered oxidation chemistry of Cu(II)-beta-amyloid. Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1792(1), 49-55. PMID: 19061952
- September 24, 2010
- 09:44 AM
- 475 views
Nikita Malavia: From Mumbai to MIT
by Susan Steinhardt in The PostDoc Forum
PostDoc Nikita Malavia is our featured scientist of the month. Follow Nikita on LinkedIn and Twitter.
How did you first become interested in the science field?
For me it started in high school back home in Mumbai, India. I was always interested and good in math and science especially chemistry and biology. Doing well in [...]... Read more »
Malavia NK, Mih JD, Raub CB, Dinh BT, & George SC. (2008) IL-13 induces a bronchial epithelial phenotype that is profibrotic. Respiratory research, 27. PMID: 18348727
Malavia NK, Raub CB, Mahon SB, Brenner M, Panettieri RA Jr, & George SC. (2009) Airway epithelium stimulates smooth muscle proliferation. American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology, 41(3), 297-304. PMID: 19151317
- May 30, 2010
- 07:26 AM
- 428 views
Profile: Christopher Dieni
by Susan Steinhardt in The PostDoc Forum
Biochemist Christopher Dieni is this month’s Featured Scientist.
How did you first become interested in the science field? What first inspired you to major in biochemistry? I suppose the earliest time in my life that I can reasonably pinpoint in which I became interested in science was back in high school. I [...]... Read more »
An, S., Kumar, R., Sheets, E., & Benkovic, S. (2008) Reversible Compartmentalization of de Novo Purine Biosynthetic Complexes in Living Cells. Science, 320(5872), 103-106. DOI: 10.1126/science.1152241
- April 18, 2010
- 12:51 PM
- 384 views
Profile: Gianpaolo Rando
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Scientist and blogger Gianpaolo Rando is BioData Blogs Featured Scientist for the month of April.
Tell us about your first encounter with science
I was 12: I was a strong reader and a loyal fellow of the civic library. Books being the main source of my knowledge, I thought everything in the world had already been discovered. At the beginning of the school year, my new science teacher introduced a small aquarium to the classroom. He put in a mug full of water from a waterhole and asked the cl........ Read more »
Rando, G., Horner, D., Biserni, A., Ramachandran, B., Caruso, D., Ciana, P., Komm, B., & Maggi, A. (2010) An Innovative Method to Classify SERMs Based on the Dynamics of Estrogen Receptor Transcriptional Activity in Living Animals. Molecular Endocrinology, 24(4), 735-744. DOI: 10.1210/me.2009-0514
- April 18, 2010
- 12:51 PM
- 233 views
Profile: Gianpaolo Rando
by Susan Steinhardt in The PostDoc Forum
Scientist and blogger Gianpaolo Rando is BioData Blogs Featured Scientist for the month of April.
Tell us about your first encounter with science
I was 12: I was a strong reader and a loyal fellow of the civic library. Books being the main source of my knowledge, I thought everything in the world had already been discovered. At the beginning of the school year, my new science teacher introduced a small aquarium to the classroom. He put in a mug full of water from a waterhole and asked the... Read more »
Rando, G., Horner, D., Biserni, A., Ramachandran, B., Caruso, D., Ciana, P., Komm, B., & Maggi, A. (2010) An Innovative Method to Classify SERMs Based on the Dynamics of Estrogen Receptor Transcriptional Activity in Living Animals. Molecular Endocrinology, 24(4), 735-744. DOI: 10.1210/me.2009-0514
- February 22, 2010
- 04:26 AM
- 360 views
Building a Motivated Research Group
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Uri Alon, a PI in the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, recently published an article in Molecular Cell where he discusses how to build a motivated research group.
Motivation in a research group is very important as that is the way that work actually gets done. Its not enough to go uninspired through the motions and conduct experiments because if it doesn’t work out – what is going to push you to keep trying? I personally have spoken to many involved in research asking what i........ Read more »
Alon, U. (2010) How to Build a Motivated Research Group. Molecular Cell, 37(2), 151-152. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.01.011
- February 7, 2010
- 06:00 AM
- 470 views
Revisiting 'Autism, Vaccines, and The Oprah Effect'
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
In June I commented on the autism - vaccine controversy and the role that Oprah had in promoting it. Seven moths later, I am revisiting this issue. 12 years ago, Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues first published his findings in The Lancet providing ‘evidence’ suggesting they had tracked down a shocking cause of autism – that being the MMR Vaccine. Last week The Lancet published a retraction of Wakefield’s paper stating that “it has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper........ Read more »
WAKEFIELD, A., MURCH, S., ANTHONY, A., LINNELL, J., CASSON, D., MALIK, M., BERELOWITZ, M., DHILLON, A., THOMSON, M., & HARVEY, P. (1998) Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The Lancet, 351(9103), 637-641. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0
The Editors of The Lancet, . (2010) Retraction—Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The Lancet, 375(9713), 445-445. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60175-4
- January 11, 2010
- 01:07 PM
- 465 views
Laboratory Notebooks: A thing of the past?
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Laboratory notebooks are essential for reproducing experiments. For years we have been raised in our labs knowing that every action must be written down in our lab notebook.... Read more »
Service, R. (2009) A Dark Tale Behind Two Retractions. Science, 326(5960), 1610-1611. DOI: 10.1126/science.326.5960.1610
- January 11, 2010
- 01:07 PM
- 391 views
Laboratory Notebooks: A thing of the past?
by Susan Steinhardt in The PostDoc Forum
Laboratory notebooks are essential for reproducing experiments. For years we have been raised in our labs knowing that every action must be written down in our lab notebook.... Read more »
Service, R. (2009) A Dark Tale Behind Two Retractions. Science, 326(5960), 1610-1611. DOI: 10.1126/science.326.5960.1610
- January 7, 2010
- 08:28 AM
- 422 views
Science News: Week of January 3, 2009
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of January 3, 2009.... Read more »
Zhang, K., Sha, J., & Harter, M. (2010) Activation of Cdc6 by MyoD is associated with the expansion of quiescent myogenic satellite cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200904144
Meacham, L., Chow, E., Ness, K., Kamdar, K., Chen, Y., Yasui, Y., Oeffinger, K., Sklar, C., Robison, L., & Mertens, A. (2010) Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adult Survivors of Pediatric Cancer--A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers , 19(1), 170-181. DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0555
- October 15, 2009
- 07:01 AM
- 477 views
Profile: Tora Smulders-Srinivasan
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
All she needed to know to fall in love with molecular biology, Dr. Tora Smulders-Srinivasan learned at 15 years old, in her tenth grade biology class. While she had been aware of basic hereditary concepts, Tora hadn’t been exposed to DNA, genetics, RNA, translation, or transcription until then. In that classroom, Tora says, she fell in love. “I loved the whole idea of DNA. The fact that there is a molecule that transfers between generations – and that is what sets up the whole organism. I........ Read more »
Smulders-Srinivasan TK, & Lin H. (2003) Screens for piwi suppressors in Drosophila identify dosage-dependent regulators of germline stem cell division. Genetics, 165(4), 1971-91. PMID: 14704180
- October 15, 2009
- 07:01 AM
- 335 views
Profile: Tora Smulders-Srinivasan
by Susan Steinhardt in The PostDoc Forum
All she needed to know to fall in love with molecular biology, Dr. Tora Smulders-Srinivasan learned at 15 years old, in her tenth grade biology class. While she had been aware of basic hereditary concepts, Tora hadn’t been exposed to DNA, genetics, RNA, translation, or transcription until then. In that classroom, Tora says, she fell in love. “I loved the whole idea of DNA. The fact that there is a molecule that transfers between generations – and that is what sets up the whole ........ Read more »
Smulders-Srinivasan TK, & Lin H. (2003) Screens for piwi suppressors in Drosophila identify dosage-dependent regulators of germline stem cell division. Genetics, 165(4), 1971-91. PMID: 14704180
- October 15, 2009
- 06:55 AM
- 444 views
Science News: Week of October 11, 2009
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of October 11, 2009.... Read more »
Yamamoto, S., Humle, T., & Tanaka, M. (2009) Chimpanzees Help Each Other upon Request. PLoS ONE, 4(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007416
- October 8, 2009
- 10:00 AM
- 404 views
Science News: Week of October 4, 2009
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of October 4, 2009.... Read more »
Brusatte, S., Carr, T., Erickson, G., Bever, G., & Norell, M. (2009) A long-snouted, multihorned tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906911106
Parks, J., Guo, H., Momany, C., Liang, L., Miller, S., Summers, A., & Smith, J. (2009) Mechanism of Hg−C Protonolysis in the Organomercurial Lyase MerB. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(37), 13278-13285. DOI: 10.1021/ja9016123
- October 1, 2009
- 09:18 AM
- 462 views
Science News: Week of September 27, 2009
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of September 27, 2009.... Read more »
Abidian, M., Ludwig, K., Marzullo, T., Martin, D., & Kipke, D. (2009) Interfacing Conducting Polymer Nanotubes with the Central Nervous System: Chronic Neural Recording using Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Nanotubes. Advanced Materials, 21(37), 3764-3770. DOI: 10.1002/adma.200900887
Billinger, M. (2009) Nontuberculous Mycobacteria–associated Lung Disease, United States in Hospitalized Persons, 1998–2005. Emerging Infectious Diseases. DOI: 10.3201/eid1510.090196
Bekinschtein, T., Shalom, D., Forcato, C., Herrera, M., Coleman, M., Manes, F., & Sigman, M. (2009) Classical conditioning in the vegetative and minimally conscious state. Nature Neuroscience, 12(10), 1343-1349. DOI: 10.1038/nn.2391
- September 24, 2009
- 07:43 AM
- 476 views
Science News: Week of September 20, 2009
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of September 20, 2009.... Read more »
Duris, J., Haack, S., & Fogarty, L. (2009) Gene and Antigen Markers of Shiga-toxin Producing E. coli from Michigan and Indiana River Water: Occurrence and Relation to Recreational Water Quality Criteria. Journal of Environmental Quality, 38(5), 1878-1886. DOI: 10.2134/jeq2008.0225
Behan, J., Yun, J., Proektor, M., Ehsanipour, E., Arutyunyan, A., Moses, A., Avramis, V., Louie, S., Butturini, A., Heisterkamp, N.... (2009) Adipocytes Impair Leukemia Treatment in Mice. Cancer Research. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-0800
Cenna, J., Hunter, M., Tan, G., Papaneri, A., Ribka, E., Schnell, M., Marx, P., & McGettigan, J. (2009) Replication‐Deficient Rabies Virus–Based Vaccines Are Safe and Immunogenic in Mice and Nonhuman Primates. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 200(8), 1251-1260. DOI: 10.1086/605949
- September 17, 2009
- 07:06 AM
- 655 views
Science News: Week of September 13, 2009
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of September 13, 2009.... Read more »
Tingley, M., Monahan, W., Beissinger, S., & Moritz, C. (2009) Biogeography, Changing Climates, and Niche Evolution Sackler Colloquium: Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901562106
Parks, A., Li, Z., Shi, Q., Owens, R., Jin, M., & Peters, J. (2009) Transposition into Replicating DNA Occurs through Interaction with the Processivity Factor. Cell, 138(4), 685-695. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.06.011
Gascoyne, D., Long, E., Veiga-Fernandes, H., de Boer, J., Williams, O., Seddon, B., Coles, M., Kioussis, D., & Brady, H. (2009) The basic leucine zipper transcription factor E4BP4 is essential for natural killer cell development. Nature Immunology. DOI: 10.1038/ni.1787
- September 11, 2009
- 06:00 AM
- 481 views
Science News: Week of September 6, 2009
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of September 6, 2009.... Read more »
Schnuelle P, Gottmann U, Hoeger S, Boesebeck D, Lauchart W, Weiss C, Fischereder M, Jauch KW, Heemann U, Zeier M.... (2009) Effects of donor pretreatment with dopamine on graft function after kidney transplantation: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 302(10), 1067-75. PMID: 19738091
Münch, T., da Silveira, R., Siegert, S., Viney, T., Awatramani, G., & Roska, B. (2009) Approach sensitivity in the retina processed by a multifunctional neural circuit. Nature Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/nn.2389
Zelada-Guillén, G., Riu, J., Düzgün, A., & Rius, F. (2009) Immediate Detection of Living Bacteria at Ultralow Concentrations Using a Carbon Nanotube Based Potentiometric Aptasensor. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. DOI: 10.1002/anie.200902090
Childs, R., Palma, A., Wharton, S., Matrosovich, T., Liu, Y., Chai, W., Campanero-Rhodes, M., Zhang, Y., Eickmann, M., Kiso, M.... (2009) Receptor-binding specificity of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus determined by carbohydrate microarray. Nature Biotechnology, 27(9), 797-799. DOI: 10.1038/nbt0909-797
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