Hopkins Marine Station honored by the American Society for Microbiology
...ity 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 affixed to the Loeb La...Gulf marine reserves given new life
...most important grouper species. The two reserves, named the Madison/Swanson and Steamboat Lumps, are roughly 55 to 75 miles south-southeast of Apalachicola in the Florida Panhandle, or roughly 95 miles west of Tarpon Springs. Madison/Swanson covers about 115 square nautical miles while Steamboat Lumps is ...New IU Bloomington life sciences building gets a name
...omington campus, and that the new building will be named Simon Hall. "The Simon family's remarkable vision will enable Indiana University to significantly enhance basic research on our Bloomington campus. The collaborative research facilitated by the Simons' generosity will dramatically distinguish our wor...Researchers find no safe place to sit in California tick-infested forest
...haped spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterium named after its discoverer, Dr. Willy Burgdorfer. B. burgdorferi is responsible for Lyme disease, which can lead to debilitating symptoms in humans. Most human cases of Lyme disease in northwestern California appears to be transmitted by young nymphal tic...Four IU professors are 2004 Guggenheim Fellows
...low each year since 1998. Rieseberg also has been named to receive the first-ever Stebbins Medal by the Vienna, Austria-based International Association for Plant Taxonomy. The medal, which will be awarded at the May meeting of the International Organization of Plant Biosystematists in Valencia, Spain, rec...Reporters from Science Magazine to receive ASM Public Communications Award
...4 Two journalists from Science magazine have been named the recipients of the American Society for Microbiology 2004 Public Communications Award. The winning entry, written by Martin Enserink and Dennis Normile, is a two-part series, "SARS in China." It focuses on China's initial denial of the emerging ...'Knock out' rose receives Texas superstar and earthkind designation
...Superstar pot label," he said. Knock Out was also named an EarthKind rose by Texas A&M horticulturists this year. Only a few roses receive the EarthKind designation. Winners not only have to deliver outstanding landscape performance under widely varying soil conditions with minimal care and impact to the ...Hormone linked to obesity plays positive role in fertility & possibly male arousal
...ism" focuses on a protein called orexin. Orexin is named after the Greek word for appetite as previous researchers found it stimulates the human adrenal gland to produce cortisol which in turn can cause obesity. The University of Warwick researchers have now, for the first time, found clear evidence that o...Three new South American fish identified
...the discovery of three new species. One of them he named after his favorite Texas fish scientist Dr. Kirk O...usands of fish, the two new species were found. He named them G. abalios (which means without spot) and G. dicrozoster (which means forked belt and refers to...Scripps research scientist wins 2004 Koch Prize
...ly recognized scientific achievements. It is named in honor of Robert Koch, one of the founding fathers of immunology. Koch developed microbiological techniques that have been in use for more than 100 years. He was the first person to isolate the cholera vibrio and the anthrax bacillus, and he won t...Brown earns prestigious geography award
...American Geographers in Philadelphia. The medal is named after James Anderson, who served as the chief geographer of the United States while working at the U.S. Geological Survey. Brown credits her study of geography as a foundation for the energy research she has conducted. The citation noted Brown, "has ...Fat hormone leptin alters brain architecture and activity, which in turn drives feeding behavior
...fied the gene that produces this hormone, which he named for the Greek word leptos or thin. Other researchers have shown that leptin-deficient humans are massively obese and become lean with leptin treatment. Under Friedman's direction, clinical research on human patients is also ongoing at The Rockefelle...Damania of UNC receives Elion cancer research award
...gnancies." Damania tudies an oncogene of the virus named K1. Her research aims to decipher how this gene can transform cells to become malignancies. Damania has already performed groundbreaking work related to KSHV and has published more than 20 journal articles on the subject. Damania earned her doctorat......hoek, had first sketched an oral spirochete later named T. denticola after viewing it through his primitive microscope in the 1670s. Even after three centuries, however, spirochetes are poorly understood in contrast to many other major types of bacteria. So far, TIGR has sequenced the complete genomes of...Human genome-wide RNAi library for biotech and pharma research
...In 2002, Hannon's work with his CSHL partners was named "Breakthrough of the Year" by the journal Science , which cited its potential for drug discovery and a variety of other applications. Although it is used widely in the research world as a genetic tool, RNAi's potential in the commercial world is ju...Pioneering discoveries, pursuing new knowledge, fostering partnerships
...2003 recipient of UH's Esther Farfel Award and was named a John and Rebecca Moores Professor the same year, becoming the first UH faculty member to receive both honors in the same year. For more than 25 years, his research continuously has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and he strongly ...UNC's Siderovski wins pharmacology award
...for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics has named Dr. David P. Siderovski, assistant professor of ph...ward since joining the UNC faculty in 1999. He was named a Year 2000 Neuroscience Scholar by the EJLB Foundation of Montreal and in 2001 received a New Inves...National Foundation For Cancer Research names UCSD's Webster Cavenee NFCR Fellow
...h of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and named him NFCR Fellow. The distinguished honor allows Cavenee unique and creative flexibility to conduct scientific research over the next five years that may lead to more effective therapies in the battle to eliminate cancer. "After working with Dr. Cav...There be dragons: New deep-sea predator species discovered
...hes long and roughly the size of a hot dog. Sutton named it after Jim Craddock, a legend in the deep-sea fish biology field. Sutton discovered the fish during an expedition to Bear Seamount, off New England, that was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Ocean Explor...Natural enemies help scientists untangle tropical forest food webs
...g to a very diverse group of insects whose larvae, named leaf miners, feed inside the leaves of plants. To take away just these particular insect leaf miners, researchers removed all traces of the plant that sustains only them. A year after their removal, researchers surveyed the health of the insect speci...