Life Sciences & Biology
Professor Nathan E. Rank | Professor Elizabeth P. Dahlhoff – Exploring Evolution By Studying Beetles Living On The Edge
Professors Nathan Rank and Elizabeth Dahlhoff, along with their collaborators and students, explore the question of evolutionary responses to changes in climate by studying a small, native beetle that lives two miles high in the mountains of Eastern California....
Dr Corina Vlot-Schuster – The Seeds We Sow And The Grain We Reap
Much of the world’s population is dependent on just a few crops, with blight and disease an ever-present threat. Dr Corina Vlot-Schuster of the Helmholtz Centre Munich, after many years researching plant defences against pathogenic attack, aims to open the door to...
Professor Marc Bramkamp – Understanding How Bacterial Cells Organise In Space And Time
Professor Marc Bramkamp of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, is at the forefront of research into the growth, division and chromosome organisation of bacterial microorganisms. He uses state-ofthe art techniques, such as live cell imaging,...
Professor Paul Dent – Developing Cancer Killing Combinations
Professor Paul Dent is committed to taking an idea from the bench to the bedside. He is doing just that by designing clinical trials that investigate how drugs can combine and synergise to kill tumour cells. Maximising the potential of cancer treatments Professor Paul...
Professor Karl Forchhammer – Awakening Sleeping Bacteria
Professor Karl Forchhammer and his colleagues analyse how cyanobacteria can survive and recover from long periods of starvation. They use the model strain Synechocystis PCC 6803, a non-diazotrophic, unicellular cyanobacterium. When deprived of a nitrogen source, the...
Professor William W. Lytton – Uniting Biology And Maths To Understand The Human Brain
Neurologist and computational neuroscientist Professor Bill Lytton and his colleagues at the Neurosimulation Laboratory of the State University of New York in Brooklyn are using computer simulation to investigate brain function and disease. Their research has...
Dr Clare Kirkpatrick – The Toxin-Antitoxin System With A Few Tricks Up Its Sleeve
Dr Clare Kirkpatrick’s research has led to the discovery of a bacterial toxin-antitoxin system with unique features. This information can be used in future studies to identify novel molecular pathways in bacteria which can be targeted by new antibiotics. Antibiotic...
Professor Nita Sahai – Geochemical Beginnings: How Minerals May Have Played A Key Role In The Origins Of Life
Professor Nita Sahai, of the University of Akron, studies the geochemistry underlying protocell formation and evolution, with a view to understanding the origins of life. This fascinating research is applicable to understanding both how life started on our own planet,...
Dr Stefan Veltel – Dysregulated Cellular Migration: Seeing is Believing
Dr Stefan Veltel and his colleagues at the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf in the Institute of Medical Microbiology, and Hygiene, study the molecular mechanisms of small GTPases in the context of various diseases. One protein in their focus is Rab21 and its...
Professor Rhodri Ceredig | Andreia Ribeiro – A Novel Assay For A Novel Therapeutic
Professor Rhodri Ceredig and his PhD student Andreia Ribeiro have developed a novel assay for measuring the immunosuppressive potency of MSC (mesenchymal stromal cells) that could revolutionise the use of this cell-based therapy How did your research experience...
Professor Naoko Tanese – Huntingtin: Its Role In Gene Expression
Professor Naoko Tanese and her research team at New York University School of Medicine investigate transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulatory pathways. Specifically, Professor Tanese is interested in identifying the post-transcriptional functions of the...
Dr Mathias Currat – Simulating genetic patterns in European human evolution
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Dr Patrice François – How Mutant Staph Jumped From Livestock To Humans
Dr Patrice François and his team at the Genomic Research Laboratory (GRL) have investigated a recently evolved staph strain that originates in farm animals and mutates into a pathogen adapted to humans. This pathogen can be found in human populations that have no...
Dr. Sharon Ruthstein – The Importance Of Copper In The Human Cell
Dr. Sharon Ruthstein researches the biological pathways involving metal ions, especially copper, by using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy. Here, she discusses the importance of copper in the human body and the implications for future diagnostic and...
The Small Business Administration
Small businesses are the creators of jobs and the driving force behind the US economy. Recognising this truth, the US government established the Small Business Administration (SBA) in 1953 in order to help Americans start and develop their own small businesses. As...
Dr Yuichi Nodake – Designing Cosmetics From Your Own Bacteria
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Dr Netta Dorchin – Tiny ecosystem engineers diversity and evolution of gall midges
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Dr Raz Zarivach – The maker of magnets
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Dr Scott A. Tenenbaum – Structurally Interacting RNA: a Novel Therapeutic and Diagnostic Tool
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Dr Lee Wong – The Biology of Telomere Chromatin in Stem cells and Cancers
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Dr Kazuhito Suzuki – A Winning Combo
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Professor Fahd Al-Mulla – Uncovering the role of genes in disease
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Professor Ed Bayer – One discovery. Two discovery. Three discovery? More?
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Dr Changqian Cao – Biomimetics Builds Better Nanoparticles for Biomedicine
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Dr. Elke Genersch – Molecular Perspectives On Bee Pathogens
With a solid career in human molecular medicine in her back pocket, Dr. Elke Genersch decided to put her skills to the test in another organism – the honeybee. Almost 15 years ago you decided to change the focus of your research from human to bee diseases. What...
Dr. Jonathan Wright – Secrets Of Molecular Evolution In Zebrafish Genes
Dr. Jonathan Wright is a molecular biologist investigating how evolutionary adaptation occurs in the regulatory regions of genes after whole genome duplication events. Increasing expression of an iLBP gene in the retina of a developing zebrafish embryo. FEBS Journal...