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January 2003, Vol. 12, No.1 | Return to Table of Contents
Science News
From the BioCurrents Research Center:
• The BRC is pleased to announce the formation of the new MBL Program in Molecular Physiology. This program, comprising the Laboratories of Dosemeci, Keefe, McDonough, Shirihai and Smith, and including the NIH BioCurrents Research Center, brings together a group of like-minded investigators with interests that focus on the performance and distribution of cellular transporters.
• Peter Smith and Richard Nuccitelli (RPN Enterprises) organized a workshop at the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco in late December. The workshop focussed on “new techniques for studying living cell dynamics” with exciting contributions from the fields of electrical and optical imaging, including correlative spectroscopy, PEBBLES, quatum dots, membrane dynamics, and second harmonic microscopy. (Gaudenz Danuser, a former research fellow in the BioCurrents Research Center (BRC) and the Architectural Dynamics in Living Cells Program, ran a very successful session on computational analysis of cell dynamics at the same conference.)
• Peter Smith presented his collaborative work with Impulse Dynamics at the Keystone Islet Biology meeting in January, with an oral presentation titled, “Electrical organization of synchronicity in the perfused in situ pancreas.” A representative poster can be seen outside Lillie 215.
• The BRC welcomes visiting investigator Radwan Khawaled, who continues to collaborate with Peter Smith on the in situ preparation.
• In January, the BRC said goodbye to Research Assistant Jane McLaughlin, who retired from the MBL after more than 50 years of service.
From The Ecosystems Center…
• The Ecosystems Center will hold the First International PARTNERS (Pan Arctic River Transport of Nutrients, Organic Matter, and Suspended Sediments) Workshop February 22 - 26 at the MBL. Scientists from Russia, Canada, Alaska, and Germany will attend.
From the Laboratory of Bruce and Barbara Furie…
Publication:
Czerwiec, E., G. S. Begley, J. Stenflo, K. Taylor, B. C. Furie, and B. Furie. 2002. Structural similarity and functional differences between invertebrate and vertebrate carboxylases: expression and characterization of recombinant vitamin K-dependent g-glutamyl carboxylase from Conus textile. Eur. J. Biochem. 269:6162-6172.
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