Today marks the start of BIT’s First Annual Low Carbon Earth Summit, held in Dalian, China. The theme of the conference is “Leading the Green Economy, Returning to Harmony with Nature”, and it aims to promote low carbon economies and to identify ways to play an even more active role in control of global climate… Read more »
In a Commentary published in BMC Cell Biology, Joseph Dukes, Paul Whitley and Andrew Chalmers present a useful guide to the Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cells, a line that is regarded as a model system for studying protein trafficking, polarity and junctions in epithelial cells. These cells come in a variety of different strains… Read more »
Ahead of the International Society For Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Meeting, to be held in Baltimore MD from 3rd-5th November, Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders is publishing a trio of articles in October on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Javenbakht and colleagues report on a critical review of event-related potential studies in PTSD in which… Read more »
Seven Retrovirology editors (Ben Berkhout, Monsef Benkirane, Ariberto Fassati, Masa Fujii, Andrew Lever, Mark Wainberg, and Kuan-Teh Jeang) attended and presented research findings at the recent Frontiers of Retrovirology conference in Amsterdam. A photo of Ariberto, Teh, Masa and Andrew is pictured below. Mark your calendar early and reserve your schedule to attend the fall 2013 Frontiers… Read more »
Four young investigators were awarded Poster Prizes at the Frontiers of Retrovirology meeting in Amsterdam, held October 3 – 5, 2011. Their names and poster topics are listed below. Also below are photos of Ben Berkhout, chair of the meeting organizing committee, awarding the poster prizes to the recipeints. Support by The AIDS Fonds, Netherlands,… Read more »
The 8th International NC meeting was successfully held at the Caixa Forum in Barcelona, September 18 -21, 2011. The meeting was organized by Gilles Mirambeau, and several dozen colleagues attended and made insightful oral and poster presentations. A group photo taken at the meeting is presented below.
Mobile DNA, or transposable elements, constitutes much of the genome in all organisms. Some elements, retrotransposons, copy themselves in a two-stage process, first from DNA to RNA by transcription, then from RNA back to DNA by reverse transcription. By contrast, DNA transposons move via a simple ‘cut-and-paste’ mechanism, without involving an RNA intermediate. A major… Read more »
World Animal Day began in 1931 at a convention of ecologists in Florence in order to raise awareness of endangered species. It is now a worldwide celebration of animal life and the role animals play in the lives of humans . The day aims to encourage people to commemorate their love and respect for animals… Read more »