Plant pathologists fighting global threat to wheat supply
...e "Stem Rust: A Threat to Global Wheat Production" symposium on August 1 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The symposium will present the latest on new sources for global resistance to stem rust, details on how the diseas...Breathing easy: When it comes to oxygen, a bug's life is full of it
...s. Hetz is one of four speakers at the upcoming symposium "Respiratory control in insects: integration from ...nion College, Schenectady, New York, will lead the symposium of four speakers. Why bugs don't pant Bees consume large amounts of oxygen, and so it might be t...Nanotechnology provides 'green' path to environmentally sustainable economy
...roceedings at a national American Chemical Society symposium and four workshops held in 2006, the new report was authored by science writer Karen Schmidt for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, an initiative of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and The Pew Charitable Trusts. The repo...Smithsonian hosts Polar Science Symposium to celebrate International Polar Year 2007-2008
... Smithsonian Institution will host a polar science symposium as one of the inaugural U.S. contributions to cele..., present and future, and their global impact. The symposium will carry on a Smithsonian tradition of polar science that began nearly 150 years ago and resulted ...Envisat Symposium 2007 kicks off in Switzerland
... gathered in Montreux, Switzerland, for a five-day symposium to discuss, present and review their findings on t...satellite ever built. The largest ESA scientific symposium of the year was formally opened today by ESA Director of Earth Observation (EO) programmes Dr Volker...Green Nanotechnology: It's Easier Than You Think
...and industry representatives. It also draws from a symposium the American Chemical Society organized on nanotechnology and the environment at its annual meeting. Please join us for the release of this report with James Hutchison, a University of Oregon chemist who applies green chemistry principles in his pr...Presidents from 13 universities worldwide to gather at Washington University in St. Louis
...enges associated with energy and environment. The symposium is intended to identify opportunities to develop c...critical international issues. The first thematic symposium of the Academy will begin with a welcome dinner on May 4, followed by a "presidents' forum" May 5, w...Rhesus macaque genome may hold clues for human health and evolution
...d for the sequencing project and hosted a research symposium in Seattle to discuss how to improve the understanding of macaque biology. Unlocking the rhesus macaque genome, they argued, would give researchers more powerful tools in understanding the processes of disease and infection in an animal model that is...Biodiversity research and education highlighted at April 16 conference
... Biological Sciences will host its annual research symposium from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, April 16, in the Kent Student Center (KSC). Symposium activities are free and open to the public. Lunch will be held in the KSC Ballroom; all additional activities will take place in room 204 KSC. Dr. Elizabeth Loso...Biotechnology Study Center honors Joan V. Ruderman, Salvador Moncada and Charles N. Serhan
...NYU School of Medicine will hold its annual awards symposium to honor three outstanding pioneers in biomedical research. The Dart/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Awards recognize the role of pure science in the development of pharmaceuticals, and particularly honor those scientists whose work has led to major ad...NC research campus and UNC universities host major symposium on nutritional biotechnology
...ix North Carolina universities are hosting a major symposium featuring the top national researchers in these em...Creating Healthier Foods and Healthier Lives," the symposium is scheduled for April 15 to 17 at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus. Nutrigeno...Biophysical Society announces new and notable symposium speakers
...ual Meeting in Baltimore, MD. The new and notable symposium highlights the latest and most exciting discoveries in biophysics. Speakers are nominated and selected by the Societys program committee. The session will take place Monday March 5, 2007 from 10:45 AM 12:45 PM in ballroom 1 of the Baltimore Conven...Experimental Biology 2007: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Health, April 28-May 2
...se therapeutics; osteoporosis and bone research (a symposium subtitled "no time to be bad to the bone"); toxicology of nanomaterials (including effects on the skin and lungs); the ways in which nicotine modulates adolescent brain plasticity, interacts with other drugs during sensitive developmental periods, an...Universities collaborate to look at offshore wind power
... with its capacity doubling every three years. The symposium will increase awareness of offshore wind potential..., noise, ship navigation and sustainability. The symposium will be held at the Historic District Embassy Suites in Charleston. For more information, go to: ht...Nanotech leaders explore paths from research lab to marketplace
...Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is scheduled to open the symposium sessions on the morning of March 16. Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman is to address attendees on March 15. Two Nobel Prize winners in science will be featured speakers at the event, among 200 presenters and more than 60 speakers from top universities and n...AAAS panel will focus on the impact of livestock production on the planet
...cement of Science (AAAS) in San Francisco during a symposium entitled, "Livestock in a Changing Landscape: Driv...cord pace and is projected to double by 2050, said symposium organizer Harold A. Mooney, professor of biological sciences at Stanford. "We are seeing tremendous ...Scientists will discuss creating a culture of sustainability February 19 at AAAS
...rsity environmental researchers participating in a symposium on climate and public policy at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Francisco. Stanford scientists Stephen Schneider, the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Stu...Public agrees global warming exists, but divided over seriousness of problem
...ne of eight speakers participating in a three-hour symposium titled "Perception, Persuasion and Climate Change: Can Science Induce Urgent Action?" Stephen Schneider, a Stanford professor of biological sciences, also will participate with a short presentation titled "Uncertainty and Future Climate Policy." Ac...Flavanols in cocoa may offer benefits to the brain
...th in a variety of ways not previously known, said symposium organizer Harold H. Schmitz, Ph.D., chief science ...at Mars, Incorporated, which helped sponsor todays symposium and has supported research on cocoa flavanols for more than 15 years. The findings raise the possib...Protecting US crops from terrorist attack to be discussed at 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
...y Toward a Secure Global Economy and Public Health symposium to be held February 18, 2007, from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. (PST) in Imperial Ballroom B of the Hilton San Francisco. Plant pathogens that are devastating to crops elsewhere, but are not yet present in the U.S., could be easily obtained by terrorists and u...