Agronomy, crop, and soil science societies to meet Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 in Seattle
...armer, writer, and conservationist, will present a lecture on "Renewing Husbandry" at 3:30pm. A full slate of technical sessions during the week that cover such topics as plant genomics, turfgrass science, international agriculture development, soil nutrient management, and sustainable agriculture are sched...Pioneering AIDS researcher to speak at UH
In his lecture AIDS: From Vaccine Research to Public Health Ho ...ential Chinese Americans in the United States, Hos lecture is also sponsored by UHs Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, the Office of Ho...Joslin President awarded medal from international diabetes organization
...the Claude Bernard Medal immediately following his lecture on the final day of the meeting, Sept. 9. Over the past three decades, the research of Dr. Kahn has literally defined the field of insulin signal transduction and mechanisms of altered signaling in disease. In 1981, Dr. Kahn's laboratory discover...Will a reduction in military spending improve our environmental future?
...utions to environmental and public health law. The lecture is delivered during the orientation program for the incoming class of AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows, in recognition of Mr. Barnard's long-time service as a member of the selection committee for the AAAS Environmental Fellowship Program. ...New tool predicts how long pollutants will stay in soil
...Chemical Society meeting last year, Nguyen heard a lecture in which Kai Uwe Goss, a senior research scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, suggested that this approach might be used to predict the behavior of soil pollutants. Nguyen took up the challenge and started...Review article makes case for a new source of cells in the body
...er, MCG Developmental Biologist Paul Sohal, gave a lecture at the MCG School of Dentistry. Dr. Dickinson thought these cells might be used to establish a human cell line to enable his studies of the development and function of salivary glands. While the jury remains out on that question, the cells have helpe...Carnegie Mellon University hosts ACS-PRF summer school on green chemistry
...ng the day, lectures will be held in the chemistry lecture hall in Doherty Hall. In the evenings, lectures will be held in the Mellon Institute auditorium. Participants will be in the laboratories in Doherty Hall 27 p.m. Monday, August 2. A campus map is available online: www.cmu.edu/home/visitors/map/index...Colleagues to recognize research leadership in cancer detection, prevention and treatment
...ional education and communications by delivering a lecture at the association's 96th Annual Meeting, April 18...irologist and discoverer of the Friend virus, this lecture provides recognition for an outstanding scientist who has made meritorious contributions to the fiel...Major scientific discovery in cancer research to be honored
...here in the world. The winner will give an award lecture during the 96th AACR Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif., April 16-20, 2005, and will officially receive the award of 75,000 and a commemorative plaque at a May 2005 ceremony in Trento, Italy, where the Pezcoller Foundation is located. Past recipients...Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2004 Annual Meeting
...ssions, the meeting will include a special plenary lecture by Dr. Wolf Singer. The full meeting program and the abstracts are now available on our website at www.humanbrainmapping.org ....Scientists receive awards, give lectures at the ASBMB/IUBMB meeting
...ard ceremonies, each of the scientists will give a lecture describing his or her work and how it will affect ...llege of Medicine, will give the ASBMB-Amgen Award lecture at 4:45 p.m. Monday, June 14. He speaks on the structural basis for T-cell costimulation. Dr. Almo ...Antibiotics alter GI tract microbes and increase lung sensitivity to allergens
...ll discuss details of the experiment in a symposia lecture and poster presentation at the ASM meeting. Complete data from the study has been submitted for publication in a future issue of Infection and Immunity. Huffnagle maintains that disruptions in the growth of bacteria and fungi in the GI tract somehow...20 May AAAS lecture: Computers that Respond to Human Emotion
...May, AAAS, the science society, will host a public lecture on "Affective Computing: Toward Computers that Recognize and Respond to Human Emotion." It begins at noon, is free and open to the public, and will be held in the AAAS auditorium located at 1200 New York Avenue N.W., Washington D.C. What might be th...Pancreatic cancer blood test & gene studies show promise
...ern the growth of pancreatic tumors. In a plenary lecture at the DDW meeting, postdoctoral fellow Gangyong Li, Ph.D., of Simeone's team presented new evidence about an interaction between two important cell-signaling pathways -- TGF Beta and protein kinase A (PKA). The presentation follows on a paper that t...AIUM to honor ultrasound pioneers at its 2004 Annual Convention
... Peter H. Arger, MD, who will present the memorial lecture "Ultrasound Research: Basic to Clinical--The Entry to Future Applications." William J. Fry, MD, was a physicist with a strong interest in ultrasound in biology and medicine, whose innovative research efforts advanced the field of diagnostic sonograph...Bye-bye Bio 101: Teach science the way you do science
...y. The authors recommend: Revamping introductory lecture courses to include active participation by student...ls. "Some raised their eyebrows when they passed a lecture hall filled with 120 students talking to each other, and one called it 'biology for poets.' But when...Vanderbilt's John Oates wins clinical research award
...ting in Chicago. At the meeting, Oates delivered a lecture titled "Investigation on the Contribution of Cyclooxygenases to Human Disease." "Dr. Oates is a legend in Clinical Research. He put Vanderbilt's clinical research on the map, and I was personally excited to propose him for this award, and gratified ...Hopkins Marine Station honored by the American Society for Microbiology
... Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The lecture series is named for Hopkins microbiologist Cornelis B. van Niel, who died in 1985. Immediately following the lecture, ASM President Thomas Shenk will present a plaque commemorating Van Niel's long and distinguished career. The plaque will be affixe...Can you tell the difference between Quarks and DNA?
...sor Carlo Rubbia (ENEA, Italy) will give a keynote lecture on Liquid Argon Technology, a cutting-edge new detector with the potential to revolutionise research in fields as diverse as astrophysics, nuclear physics, rare particles such as neutrinos and WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) as well as p...Leading experts in field of gene therapy to meet in Minneapolis
...In addition, the premier George Stamatoyannopoulos lecture will be given by Harriet Robinson, MD, from the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center. Members of the media may register without charge for the ASGT 7th Annual Meeting. Press conferences on the latest research will be conducted throughout the meet...