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Gordon Graduate Research Seminar Call for Papers Justin
Greetings!
We are pleased to announce the addition of a Graduate Research Seminar to coincide with the GRC-Metabolic Basis of Ecology conference in 2008. This program brings together graduate students and post-docs from diverse backgrounds in a relaxed setting prior (July 5th - 6th) to the start of the main GRC (July 6th - 11th). We invite 200-word abstracts for participation.
Please E-mail abstracts to both: Puni Jeyasingh and Charles Price.
Abstracts submitted by April 1st 2008 will be considered for one of ten speaker slots. Graduate students and post-docs please mark your calendars. Senior scientists kindly apprise your group about this unique opportunity.
For more information go to: 2008 Program (Graduate Research Seminar: Matabolic Theory of Ecology)
Science News and Papers:
Announcement: Next Wednesday, Meet at the MIND Institute.
The next PIBBS class (Wednesday, Oct 31) will be held at the MIND Institute.
Please go there directly, not go to Biology Building
The MIND institute is at
Pete and Nancy Domenici Hall
1101 Yale Boulevard
It is at the end of Yale, beside the west of the golf course, north campus.
You can take school shuttle (G lot or Redondo), ask the driver to stop at Top of the Hill, then walk north till the end of Yale
Or just begin from Duck Pond, continue walking toward north, till the end.
Below is the campus map. I highlighted the building 260.
See you guys next Wednesday.
====== How to acknowledge PIBBS in a paper ======
Justin
You can include something similar to this:”This program was supported in part by a grant to UNM from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute through the Interfaces Initiative.”
- Gordon Graduate Research Seminar Call for Papers
Justin
Greetings!
We are pleased to announce the addition of a Graduate Research Seminar to coincide with the GRC-Metabolic Basis of Ecology conference in 2008. This program brings together graduate students and post-docs from diverse backgrounds in a relaxed setting prior (July 5th - 6th) to the start of the main GRC (July 6th - 11th). We invite 200-word abstracts for participation.
Please E-mail abstracts to both: Puni Jeyasingh and Charles Price.
Abstracts submitted by April 1st 2008 will be considered for one of ten speaker slots. Graduate students and post-docs please mark your calendars. Senior scientists kindly apprise your group about this unique opportunity.
For more information go to: 2008 Program (Graduate Research Seminar: Matabolic Theory of Ecology)
Kindly post/forward this flyer as you see fit.
Sincerely, Puni Jeyasingh & Chuck Price.
- An Actin-Based Wave Generator Organizes Cell Motility.
In the science of physiology, three basic mechanisms are known that provide motility to organisms: ciliar/fagellar, muscular, and amoeboid. The first two ones are considered well understood, but how the third one works was a mistery until now. The paper An Actin-Based Wave Generator Organizes Cell Motility proposes an explanation to how eukariotic cells can perform ameboid movement. The mechanism is a self-organized wave generator; localized waves of specialized proteins produce a sequential activation of actin that pulls the cytoeskeleton of the cell forward, thus generating movement. The paper is a little hard to follow, but the videos provide an astonishing evidence of this sophisticated mechanism:
The paper has more than 20 videos that can be accessed at the link provided above. Check it out!
Add your commments here:
- Kin Recognition in Plants.
There is plenty of evidence in the literature that many animals are able to recognize their kins, and that behavior can be different in the interaction of kins and non-kins. However, for the first time this kind of kin recognition was identified in plants as well. The short paper Kin recognition in an annual plant describes how plants that usually act competitively by aggressively growing their roots when surrounded by other plants change their behavior and grow much less aggressively when the surrounding plants are kins. The mechanism by which this recognition happens is still unknown. This discovery can have major impact in the way we understand kin selection and interaction of plants.
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Discussion Topics:
- Only when it is too late?
George
In the TIBBS course the students had iteresting discussions about how human beings should address the responsability for the increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere resultant from the accelerated development of human civilization. Although all scientific predictions agree that climate is changing and that the consequences of this change can be catastrophic, the levels of CO2 are still increasing exponentially, and fixing solutions employed in a planetary scale are far from being a reality. Since there is a high economic and social cost associated to changing the current pathways of development, it is worth it questioning whether society will actually make the move and take a global, concrete, unified action against climate change before there is a real physical planetary pressure for it, that is, before catastrophes start to happen, millions of people die, economies collapse, etc. Will society be really able to take the antecipatory initiative despite the intertia of the current system before it is too late?
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- TIBBS Unit 2 - Infectious Disease Dynamicshttp://www.math.unm.edu/~hwearing/teaching/TIBBS/
Helen
TIBBS Unit 2 Group Assignments
TIBBS Unit 3 - fMRI
The power point of Oct 24 is here
Announcements:
- FYI for PIBBS Fellows/Scholars Justin
Remember in your CV and Resumes the your titles have changed from PIBBS Fellows to HHMI Interfaces Scholars at the University of New Mexico, PIBBS. This change is per Maryrose Franko, Senior Program Officer for Graduate Science Education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI; Chevy Chase, MD, USA. HHMI is sole source of funding for your fellowships with PIBBS. For more information visit Scholars Announcement
* GPSA’s GRD up to $5,000 Opportunity Justin
Hello Graduate Students,
Currently, The Graduate Professional Student Association's (GPSA): Graduate Research and Development (GRD) has two types of grants available to apply for:
High Priority Research Project Grants and General Research Project Grants. Applicants may apply for either a High Priority Research Project Grant or a General Research Project Grant, but not for both. High Priority Research Project Grants are awarded in amounts up to $5,000 for graduate students collaborating on a research project with a New Mexico State Agency.
General Research Project Grants are awarded in amounts up to $3,000 for graduate students working on research projects either independently, or with a non-profit community service oriented organization.
The original application and all copies must be submitted together in a large envelope. Mailed applications must be received in the GPSA Office by 12:00 noon on Friday, November 9, 2007.
Please note that the maximum amounts are for individual research projects regardless of the total number of graduate or professional students working on the project.
Also, please keep in mind that funding is limited and this is a competitive application process! If you have any questions please contact me at gilberpe@law.unm.edu. Good luck on the success of your application!
Penny Gilbert, GRD Administrator
I have more info on the PIBBS Announcements.
Collaborations:
UNM-UCSB Tsimane Social Network Analysis Four PIBBS fellows (2006-7) and one TIBBS’06 classmate (Paul, Jordan, Ziya, and Erik with Cameron) are conducting a social network analysis of data Paul manages for the Tsimane Project, with paper to submit Spring 2008.
Wiki master contact:
George Bezerra
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