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HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Madeline Drexler |
Mark Bear: Charting New Waters Bear has applied his discoveries in brain plasticity to understanding fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of mental impairment.   |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Amber Dance |
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times for Postdocs Fresh from a Ph.D. in virology, Nancy Van Prooyen is carving her own scientific niche. She's taking on the little-known fungal pathogen, Histoplasma capsulatum, as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Sarah C. P. Williams |
The Next Statin Although clinicians have firmly established the link between cholesterol levels and heart disease, there are still more questions than answers when it comes to the nitty-gritty molecular details of this connection. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Amy Maxmen |
Shirley Tilghman: The Future of Science Ultimately, we want to create a biomedical enterprise that produces the best science and brings out the best in the people engaged in it. Today the training path has become too long. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Cathy Shufro |
Richard Losick: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist Universities should encourage creative teaching, says Losick, just as they reward outstanding research. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
George Heidekat |
Ode to Dragonflies In his small, quiet book about large, charismatic insects, Natural History of Delmarva Dragonflies and Damselflies, Hal White sounds a persuasive alarm about our vanishing connections with the natural world. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Richard Saltus |
From Bench to Brahms At least one evening a week, doctors and scientists from Boston's biomedical community escape the laboratory or bedside to unleash their musical creativity with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Kathryn Brown |
Mosaic Mendel Neurobiologist Julie Simpson and her partner Frank Midgley, a scientific computing expert at Janelia Farm, have created a one-of-a-kind art exhibit, "MacOSaiX Scientific Heroes." |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Jim Schnabel |
Oxygen on the Brain An ancient cellular program to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Elise Lamar |
Sequencing Adrenal Tumors A global team of researchers showed that potassium channel mutations promote tumor formation and hypertension. |
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