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Steven McKnight, UT Southwestern, A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to protein
A new-found interest in the field of protein science has focused on the capacity of certain proteins to polymerize into labile, cross- fibrils. Formation of labile polymers has been observed for ...
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Establishing a New SIMS Paradigm with NAUTILUS: Application to the Oklo Natural Reactor
Evan Groopman, from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on September 13, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, ...
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Carnegie Science celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of the universe
For humans, the most important star in the universe is the Sun. The second most important star is nestled inside in the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it. The flickering star is 2.2 million ...
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Colloquium: Prof. Jennifer Sokoloski (Columbia University)
Colloquium: Technological advances driving discovery in astrophysics -- nova eruptions, and future prospects with LSST ...
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Dr. Megan Bontrager - Local adaptation at range edges and under anomalous climates
Megan Bontrager's group at the University of Toronto is elucidating the environmental drivers of local adaptation—in which populations perform best in their home environments, as well as the selective ...
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From the dust particles to tectonic plates: New views from high-resolution paleomagnetism
Magnetic fields are thought to govern the lifetime of protoplanetary disks by mediating the inward accretion of gas. At finer scales, magnetic instabilities may have led to turbulent eddies where the ...
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Dan Cosgrove, Penn State, Rethinking the architecture of growing cell walls and the mechanisms of cell wall loosening
Abstract: For two decades the major model of primary cell walls hypothesizes that xyloglucan binds to cellulose microfibril surfaces, coating them and tethering adjacent microfibrils into a strong yet ...
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Round Table Seminar - Tracy Punshon (Dartmouth College) Using elemental imaging as a tool in gene characterization
Picture shows synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microtomography of a dry, intact Arabidopsis Columbia-0 seed collected at beamline 13-ID-E of the Advanced Photon Source. Red shows calcium, blue shows ...
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Matt Posewitz, Colorado School of Mines, Modulation of Photosynthetic and Metabolic Networks in Photoautotrophic Microorganisms for Biocommodities
Our recent research efforts have focused on manipulating photosynthetic and biosynthetic pathways leading to starch, triacylglycerols, medium-chain fatty acids, a suite of terpenoids, or H2 in ...
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Lunch Talk - Guilherme Limberg (Universidade de São Paulo)
The Origin of the Metallicity Gradient in Sagittarius Stellar Stream ...
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Ching Kung, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Original Sense: Feeling the Force in a Clockwork World of Membrane Proteins"
Force sensing is fundamental and made overt in hearing, touch, gravitropism and thigmomorphogenesis. Their molecular workings, however, are unclear. While current research is dominated by biochemistry ...
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The three geochemical stages of a planet: accretion; evolution; and exploitation
Join Dr. Chris Ballentine, University of Oxford, UK, for "The three geochemical stages of a planet: accretion; evolution; and exploitation" with host Peter van Keken.