Carnegie Institution for Science5d
Mirella Bucci, Senior Editor at Nature Chemical Biology, Publishing at Nature journals
I graduated with a PhD in molecular and cellular biology from Washington University and then moved onto a postdoctoral position at Stanford, working on protein aggregation in the context of ...
Carnegie Institution for Science5d
Geophysical Detection of Liquid Water in the Subsurfaces of Greenland and Europa
Former DTM Harry Oscar Wood Fellow Nicholas Schmerr (2008-2010), now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geology, University of Maryland, received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University. His ...
Carnegie Institution for Science6d
"Jumping Genes: What They Mean for Evolution and Medicine"
Our Broad Branch Road Spring 2017 Neighborhood Lecture Series kicks off with Carnegie Science President, Dr. Matthew P. Scott. Scott will present, "Jumping Genes: What They Mean for Evolution and ...
Carnegie Institution for Science13d
Miriam Goodman, Stanford University, Deciphering the physics and physiology of animal touch sensation
Our sense of touch is the earliest to develop, last to fade, and least understood of the five basic senses. The gentlest breeze and the roughest sandpaper are detected by mechanoreceptor neurons ...
Carnegie Institution for Science3d
Robert Farese, UCSF, The Roots of Obesity: Mechanisms of Fat Synthesis and Storage
Lipids play a crucial and tightly regulated cellular role as the major component of membranes. They are also critical for both cellular and physiological energy homeostasis. Pools of both membrane ...
Carnegie Institution for Science3d
Dating Early Habitability Windows on Mars and Earth by Microstructural Geochronology
Desmond E. Moser, from Western University, will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the ...
Carnegie Institution for Science7d
Bacterial mechanosensation and ecology
Sergei Sukharev is a professor at the University of Maryland ...
Carnegie Institution for Science4d
"Thermomechanical insights into triggering the 2005 eruption of Sierra Negra volcano, Galápagos"
Patricia Gregg, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, will present a lecture titled "Thermomechanical insights into triggering the 2005 eruption of Sierra Negra volcano, Galápagos" at ...
Carnegie Institution for Science3d
What is your planet made of? Polluted white dwarfs as a window into rocky extrasolar bodies
During the past dozen years my team has utilized spectroscopic studies of white dwarf photospheres 'polluted' by planetary system material to provide bulk chemical compositions in unprecedented detail ...
Carnegie Institution for Science4d
Round Table Seminar - Tracy Punshon (Dartmouth College) Using elemental imaging as a tool in gene characterization
Picture shows synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microtomography of a dry, intact Arabidopsis Columbia-0 seed collected at beamline 13-ID-E of the Advanced Photon Source. Red shows calcium, blue shows ...
Carnegie Institution for Science7d
Latitude-dependent Weathering Consumption of Atmospheric CO2 and the Onset and Demise of Ice Ages
Dennis Kent will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.
Carnegie Institution for Science3d
The Geodynamo: A Unique Window Into the Dynamics of Earth's Deep Interior
Earth's magnetic field is generated by convective motion in the liquid iron outer core, commonly referred to as the geodynamo. The magnetic field has been protecting Earth from harmful charged ...