New Research Shows Loggerhead Sea Turtles Sustain Delicate Dunes
...ving the dune system. Sarah Bouchard, a UF student who studied the nesting turtles for hermaster's thesis, monitored the beach for energy, nitrogen, phosphorus andlipids left behind by turtle eggs and the possible effects those nutrientshad on the beach ecosystem. Karen Bjorndal, a UF zoology...By Revving Up Key Gene, Researchers Discover They Can Manipulate The Size Of Cells In Plants
...g Wu,postdoctoral fellows in biology, and graduate student Gregory DeWitt. Others areDrs. Andrew Binns and Michael Savka of the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr.Raymond Shillito, of AgrEvo, a Pikeville, N.C., agricultural developmentcompany. In research completed in 1989, Jones identified a protein...Williams Syndrome: UD Research Pinpoints Language And Learning Traits Of Those With The Disorder
...h annual meeting, Hoffman andLandau, with graduate student Barney (Jerome) Pagani, will discuss theirinvestigations of eye movement among those with Williams Syndrome, a projectfunded by the March of Dimes and the National Science Foundation. Using a special, eye-tracking device that uses a tiny camera hidd......r of biological structure; Susan McBurney,doctoral student in linguistics, and Kevin Hinshaw, doctoral student in computerscience and engineering....Vitamin E Supplement Decreases Autoantibodies To Oxidized LDL
... departmental colleagues Caroline Jonas, (graduate student in the Nutrition andHealth Sciences Program) and Ana A. Murphy, M.D., and Dr. Parthasarathy, who isMcCord-Cross Professor and director of research in Gynecology and Obstetrics,and professor of Medicine (Cardiology). The study was supported by the N...When One Gene Has Two Roles, Its Second Function May Be Missed
...authors on the EMBO Journal paper include graduate student Yinghui Zhouand postdoctoral fellows Kim-Chew Lim and Ko Onodera, all of Northwestern;Stuart H. Orkin, Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatric Medicine, and postdoctoralresearcher Fong-Ying Tsai of Harvard Medical School; and Masayuki Yamamoto,professor ...Scientists Find First Protein In Central Nervous System Junctions
...uoping Feng, Ph.D.,and Hartmut Tintrup, a graduate student from Heinrich Betz's lab at theMax-Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, are first authorsof the paper, which appears in the Nov. 13 issue of Science. Betz and colleagues discovered the protein, gephyrin, in 1982, isolati...SFU Researcher Finds Low Cost Solution To High Auto Emissions
... costly new hardware," says Saif, who as agraduate student in the early 1980s worked on the diagnostics of jet engines,with a NASA research grant. "Adding one or two sensors is not a big issue in the aerospace industry,but when you're looking at millions of cars and having to mass produce somethingne...Virginia Tech Research Group Presents Improved Dental Materials
...urg, Va., Nov. 22, 1998) -- Virginia Tech graduate student Nazan Gunduzand her fellow researchers in chemistry have developed improved dental materialsthat require one less step to process, to get you out of the dentist's chairfaster. Your fillings will last longer, too. A process called photopolymerization ...Software Helps Decipher Genomes Of Higher Organisms
...GeneMark, which Borodovsky developed with graduate student William Hayes, was used to find genes in genomes of the bacteria Methanoccocus jannaschii and Helicobacter pylori. There were no experimentally studied segments of M. jannaschii available to train the Markov models, upon which gene pre...Researchers Externally Regulate Gene Implanted In Brain
...ys. Rebecca P. Haberman, a UNC-CH graduate student in neurobiology, is thestudy's lead author. She is training in the laboratories of Samulski and Dr.Thomas J. McCown, research associate professor of psychiatry. For the study, the UNC-CH team altered the AAV virus to serve as avector for del...Method May Be Key In Combating Diarrhea In Animals And Children
...uhlenschmidt, Howard B.Gelberg and former doctoral student Mark D. Rolsma, now a professor at AuburnUniversity. Speaking at the Second International Rushmore Conference on Mechanisms in thePathogenesis of Enteric Diseases, Sept.30-Oct. 3, in Rapid City, SD, Theresa Kuhlenschmidt reported preliminary,unpublis...Scientists Find Multiple New Uses For Worn-Out Tires
...ey, Rood,engineer Massoud Rostam-Abadi andgraduate student Christopher Lehmann compared the performance of carbonadsorbents derived from shredded tires withthe performance of existing commercial products. The researchers alsocharacterized the physical properties -- such aspore size -- of the adsorbents and s...Migratory songbird breeding linked to winter habitat
...ound." Marra conducted this research as a graduate student with Richard Holmes, HarrisProfessor of Environmental Biology at Dartmouth, and their colleague, KeithHobson, Research Scientist at the Prairie and Northern Wildlife Research Centerin Saskatoon, Canada. Previous studies have found that males in many ...Amid Albanian Turmoil, Archaeologists Unearth Secrets Of The Stone Age
...ier; Lorenc Bejko of Tirana; and Mentor Mustafa, a student at Boston University. In addition to Davis, the rest of the team included Sharon Stocker, UC doctoral student; Michael Galaty of Mississippi State University; John Wallrodt of UC; Charles Watkinson, a British archaeologist; Eberhard Zangger, a Germa...Some Smelter Slags Represent A Significant Environmental Hazard
...rium, zinc and copper, Michael Parsons, a graduate student ingeological and environmental sciences at Stanford, has found. He also has shownthat slag can release these elements into the environment under naturalweathering conditions and cause pollution of soils, surface waters andgroundwater. Parsons presen...Staring And Squirming Help Babies Explore
...or in and of itself. To know that I am not only a student of humandevelopment but also a contributor makes the learning process that much moreinteresting." Other undergraduates currently working in Robertson's lab include Jodi Pike,Heather Bergida, Jenny Hwang and Evan Waldheter. The research is supported ...Chemists Discover New Processes In Fuel-Cleaning Catalysis
...nducted the research alongwith Penn State graduate student James G. Kushmerick. A paper describing the research is published in the current issue of Journal ofPhysical Chemistry B, published on December 10. The chemists made their discovery with one of the most powerful and stablemicroscopes in the world...Researchers Discover How Green Tea May Prevent Cancer
...worked on the research are Andrew Bridge, a premed student atWabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind.; Peichuan Sun, a graduate studentsupervised by Dorothy Morre; and Lian-Ying Wu, a research technologist atPurdue. Dorothy Morre says that further work is needed to understand how tNOX worksin cancer cell g......sources. The college, through itsWildlife Society student members, began volunteer teaching at CES about all thegreat things to be found in the woods. Now in its second year, the classroomprogram has expanded to direct field research and data recording, practicallyunheard of at the elementary school level....