Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...ENCE OF JAZZ AND YODELING An evening tutorial and lecture on the first day of the meeting (June 4) will feature the Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra. Uwe Hansen of Indiana State University ( u-hansen@indstate.edu ) will describe the basic science of each instrument family: strings, brasses, woodwinds, piano an...University of Texas researcher earns APS Bowditch award
...essor at his university, will present the Bowditch lecture New insight into the regulation of ENaC by small G proteins and phosphatidylinositides, at 5:45 p.m., Sunday, April 29, at the APS session of Experimental Biology 2007 in Ballroom B the Washington Convention Center. The APS plans an entire track on i...Reversing cancer cells to normal cells
... in the American Association of Anatomists plenary lecture and symposium, at Experimental Biology 2007 in Was...ish and the chick embryo. Dr. Hendrixs plenary lecture on April 29 is a highlight of the scientific program of the American Association of Anatomists. Her ...Oxford physiology professor earns APS' Walter B. Cannon Award
...ver the Walter B. Cannon Physiology in Perspective lecture at 5:45 p.m., Saturday, April 28 in Ballroom B of the Washington Convention Center. The lecture is part of the 120th annual meeting of the APS, which takes place as part of Experimental Biology 20...Presidents from 13 universities worldwide to gather at Washington University in St. Louis
...ent. The May 6 session will begin with a keynote lecture on sustainability in urban areas by John C. Crittenden, Ph.D., the Richard Snell Presidential Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Sustainable Technologies Program at Arizona State University. Also scheduled to speak are ...Leading researchers honored for progress in cancer prevention, detection and treatment
...revention. Each recipient presents an educational lecture at the AACR Annual Meeting. "During this, our ...rer of the Friend virus, Dr. Charlotte Friend. The lecture recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made meritorious contributions to the field of cancer re...Advances in personalized medicine on agenda for 54th Society of Nucelar Medicine Annual Meeting
...lt University will present the Henry N. Wagner Jr. lecture on June 3, and James H. Thrall will present the Benedict Cassen Lecture on June 4. SNM and SNMTS will present more than 100 continuing education courses focusing on brain amyloid imaging, functional brain imaging in epilepsy and dementia, imaging ins...Polymers show promise for gene delivery, tissue scaffolds, other biomedical applications
... Chemistry Professor Tim Long will give an invited lecture at the 233rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago March 25-29. The presentation will be an overview of novel polymers developed by Virginia Tech researchers for biomedical applications, with an emphasis on gene delivery and...Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research recognizes Mina J. Bissell
...tional cancer research. Bissell will give an award lecture at the AACR Annual Meeting 2007 in Los Angeles, Calif., April 14-18. Her talk, entitled "Phenotype Overrides Genotype in Normal Mammary Gland and Breast Cancer," will be given at 5:30 p.m., Sunday, April 15, in Hall A of the Los Angeles Convention Ce...2007 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award
...ll deliver the Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award lecture during the Biochemical Engineering XV conference, July 1519, 2007 in Qubec City, Canada....AACR's Sixth Annual Landon Awards recognize Richard Kolodner, Douglas Lowy and John Schiller
...ed cash award of $200,000 and present a scientific lecture at the AACR Annual Meeting, held this year from April 14-18 in Los Angeles, California. This years winner of the Kirk A. Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research is Richard D. Kolodner, Ph.D., member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, ...American Society for Microbiology to host 107th General Meeting in Toronto
...tion of cultural heritage materials The keynote lecture will feature Edward O. Wilson of Harvard University. Considered by many to be the father of the modern environmental movement, Wilson will draw on the ideas of his best-selling book, The Future of Life, to make a passionate and eloquent plea for a n...Winner of Tyler Environmental Prize announced
..., April 19, at 2 p.m., Lettinga will give a public lecture at the Davidson Conference Center of the University of Southern California, which administers the prize. Lettinga's technology, known as Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB), stands behind three quarters of the world's anaerobic systems for treat...McGovern Institute Scolnick Prize awarded to David Julius
... 21st, 2007 at 4:00 pm. Dr. Julius will deliver a lecture entitled "From Peppers to Peppermints: Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway", followed by a reception, at the McGovern Institute in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex, 43 Vassar Street (building 46, room 3002) in Cambridge. The event...Experimental Biology 2007: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Health, April 28-May 2
...erging infectious diseases and include the keynote lecture on defining critical neuropathology in neurodegenerative disorders by Dr. Floyd E. Bloom, The Scripps Research Institute. Other symposia, lectures, and research presentations focus on the neuropathology and genetics of Parkinsonism; emerging infecti...'Dilbert of academia' brings humor to talk at UH
...lassroom Complex auditorium (room 100). The first lecture in a new UH series designed to inspire college stu...onal Studies are co-sponsoring Chams talk. The lecture series will continue this spring with two additional speakers March 23 and April 30. For more infor...Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky will discuss stress, health, Feb. 17 at AAAS meeting
... implications of stress at 12:45 p.m. Feb. 17 in a lecture titled "Stress, Health and Coping" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco. Stress response All vertebrates respond to stressful situations by releasing hormones, such as adrenalin and g...2007 AAAS Annual Meeting Headlines
... Sciences of the Developing World. A final plenary lecture will be offered at 8:00 a.m. Monday, 19 February by Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, a primary architect of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report....Are we killing the world's oceans?
...lumbia, will kick off the forum with a free public lecture on "Are We Past the Point of No Return in Mining Fish From the Sea?" on Feb. 21 Pauly is one of the world's leading fisheries conservation scientists, and a vocal and influential critic of current fishing practices. All sessions will be open to the...Wiley Foundation announces recipients of 6th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
...000 grant, and the opportunity to present a public lecture at The Rockefeller University, the venue for the a...ave invited Dr. Hartl and Dr. Horwich to deliver a lecture at The Rockefeller University in New York City on April 6, 2007." Last year's recipients of the Wi...