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Summer 2007, Vol. 3, No. 3 | Index
Research Briefs
From the Architectural Dynamics in Living Cells Program:
Janicke, M.A., L. Lasko, R. Oldenbourg, and J.R. LaFountain, Jr., 2007. Chromosome malorientations after meiosis II arrest cause nondisjunction. Mol. Biol. Cell 18: 1645-56.
Oldenbourg, R., 2007. Analysis of Microtubule Dynamics by Polarized Light. In: J. Zhou, editor, Microtubule Protocols. Methods in Molecular Medicine. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
Shribak, M., 2007. “Orientation-independent differential interference contrast microscopy technique and device,” US Patent 7233434, Int.Cl.G02B 21/06.
Shribak, M., and R. Oldenbourg, 2007. “Retardance measurement system and method,” US Patent 7202950, Int.Cl. G01J 4/00.
Shribak, M., and R. Oldenbourg, 2007. “Retardance measurement system and method,” US Patent 7239388, Int.Cl. G01J 4/00.
From the Bordenstein Laboratory:
Bordenstein, S.R. and J.H. Werren. Bidirectional incompatibility among divergent Wolbachia and incompatibility level differences among closely related Wolbachia in Nasonia. (2007) Heredity, in press.
Panagiotis I., J. C. D. Hotopp, P. Sapountzis, S. Siozios, G. Tsiamis, S. R. Bordenstein, L. Baldo, J. H. Werren and K. Bourtzis. (2007) On the origin of DNA replication of Wolbachia and closely related bacteria. BMC Genomics 8:182.
Seth Bordenstein received an award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Precollege Science Education Initiative for $725,225 from 2007-2012. The project is entitled “The Wolbachia Project: Discover the Microbes Within!” and will allow high school teachers and students to explore symbionts in their local insect fauna using biotechnology and DNA sequence analyses. With the HHMI funding, the MBL will expand this cutting-edge program originally initiated with an intensive, three-day teacher workshop by Bordenstein in 2005 to become a national training center for Discover the Microbes Within! workshops. Three school systems, including Falmouth High School, currently use the curriculum.
From the Ecosystems Center:
Benstead, J., A. Green, L. A. Deegan, B. J. Peterson, K. Slavik, B. Bowden, A. Hershey. 2007. Recovery of three Arctic stream reaches from experimental nutrient enrichment. Freshwater Biology 52:1077- 1089 doi:1010.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01723.
Crump, B. C., H. E. Adams, J. E. Hobbie, G. W. Kling. 2007. Biogeography of bacterioplankton in lakes and streams of an Arctic tundra catchment. Ecology 88:1365-1378.
Ducklow, H. W. 2007. Southern Ocean: Biogeochemistry. In: B. Riffenburgh, (Ed)., Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, pp 942-45. New York: Routledge. 2 vols.
Ducklow, H. W. and P. L. Yager. 2007. Pelagic bacterial processes in polynyas, chapter 10, pp. 323-362. In W. O. Smith and D. Barber (eds.) Polynyas: Windows into Polar Ocean. Elsevier/CRC, New York.
Ducklow, H.W., Hansell, D. A. and Morgan. J. A. 2007. Dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in the Western Black Sea. Marine Chemistry 105:140-150.
Ducklow, H. W. et al. 2007. Marine ecosystems: The West Antarctic Peninsula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 362(1477):67-94.
Hobbie, J. E., M. Bahr, and A.-L. Reysenbach. 2007. Ecology at long-term research sites: Integrating microbes and ecosystems, pp. 182-189. In C. J. Hurst, (ed.) Third edition of the ASM Manual of Environmental Microbiology. ASM Press.
Street, L., G. Shaver, M. Williams, and M. Van Wijk. 2007. What is the relationship between changes in leaf area and changes in photosynthetic CO2 flux in Arctic ecosystems? Journal of Ecology 95:139-150.
From the Hanlon Laboratory:
Roger Hanlon delivered the plenary address to the International Ethology Conference in Halifax, Canada, on August 18, 2007. Attending were 400 scientists from every continent except Antarctica. Hanlon was interviewed by CTV, Canada’s largest private broadcaster and parts of his talk and video presentation were featured on Breakfast Television, the most popular morning show in the Canadian Maritimes.
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