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Robert Darnell named president of New York Genome Center
By Zach Veilleux Sometime during the last decade, as he developed technology to explore the role of RNA in neurological disease, Robert B. Darnell realized that the talented, highly educated molecular biologists in his lab were spending more and more of their time doing something that they had ne...
Structural biology center provides machines for large scale projects
by LESLIE CHURCH With momentum gaining at the New York Genome Center and several new institutional partnerships beginning on Roosevelt Island and downtown Brooklyn, the academic landscape of New York City is poised for a new era of collaboration. But the idea behind these alliances — that more ca...
Milestones
Awarded: Elaine Fuchs, the 2012 Academy Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Biomedical Science from the New York Academy of Medicine, for her innovative and imaginative approaches to research in skin biology, its stem cells and its associated human genetic disorders. The medal is given to em...
New neuroscience textbook will be a free reference for students in developing countries
An innovative new five-volume digital neuroscience textbook, edited by Rockefeller University professor Donald W. Pfaff, has been published and is being made available at no cost to qualified students in developing countries. As digital textbooks improved in quality, Pfaff, head of the Laboratory...
Nature online: December 12, 2012
Nature online: December 12, 2012 Rapid regulation of depression-related behaviours by control of midbrain dopamine neurons Dipesh Chaudhury, Jessica J. Walsh, Allyson K. Friedman, Barbara Juarez, Stacy M. Ku, Ja Wook Koo, Deveroux Ferguson, Hsing-Chen Tsai, Lisa  Pomeranz, Daniel J. Christoffel, ...
Nature Methods online: December 9, 2012
Nature Methods online: December 9, 2012 Fast multicolor 3D imaging using aberration-corrected multifocus microscopy Sara Abrahamsson, Jiji Chen, Bassam Hajj, Sjoerd Stallinga, Alexander Y. Katsov, Jan Wisniewski, Gaku Mizuguchi, Pierre Soule, Florian Mueller, Claire Dugast Darzacq, Xavier Darzacq...
Science 338: 1352-1353 (12-7-12)
Science 338: 1352-1353 Developmental progression to infectivity in Trypanosoma brucei triggered by an RNA-binding protein Nikolay G. Kolev, Kiantra Ramey-Butler, George A. M. Cross, Elisabetta Ullu and Christian Tschudi
Neuron 76: 989-997 (12-6-12)
Neuron 76: 989-997 The spatial pattern of cochlear amplification Jonathan A.N. Fisher, Fumiaki Nin, Tobias Reichenbach, Revathy C.  Uthaiah and A.J. Hudspeth
Charles M. Rice awarded Dautrebande Prize
Charles M. Rice, Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor in Virology and head of the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, has been given the Prize of Pathophysiology Professor Lucien Dautrebande from the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine for his description of the molecular and ce...
Robert Darnell named president of New York Genome Center
Robert B. Darnell, Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, has been named president and scientific director of the New York Genome Center. He will direct all aspects of the NYGC, including its scientific and research activities, and the recru...
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