As usual for this time of year, the Neuroscience labs will clear out as everyone goes to the Society for Neuroscience meeting. Leslie Griffith will be giving a Presidential Special Lecture on Sleep: Studying a Human Behavior in an Insect (Monday, 5:15 pm).
Here’s a list of Brandeis-affiliated posters and presentations.
Press from SFN:
Recent results from the Gelles lab published in PLoS Biology show that lac repressor bound to DNA can form different loop structures and that there are rapid transitions between the structures.
Gina Turrigiano discusses “The Self-Tuning Neuron” in a new review in Cell.
K.C. Hayes will get $1 million in research support for the lab as part of an agreement with the makers of Smart Balance, according to a recent press release.
Recent work from the Hedstrom Lab suggests an explanation for how mutations in this enzyme involved in nucleotide biosynthesis can lead to retinal degeneration and hereditary blindness. It seems it has to do with binding mRNA. Read more at:
LTS will be working on the campus wireless network Monday, Nov 3, starting about 6 pm. See bulletin board for details.
I created a new mailing list dnastar-users for those who use our group license for DNA* Lasergene.
Mostly this is so I can nag people to quit Lasergene so they stop using up licenses. Please quit Lasergene if you are not using it. Leaving it open all day is not acceptable.
Now that you’ve gotten used to the PureEdge forms that NIH was using for electronic submission, they’re moving to use Acrobat forms instead.
During the transition, be sure to check the program announcements to figure out which format you should be using.
Windows haters should be happy about this, I think.
Sue Paradis says she is cleaning up preparatory to the move, and has leftover stuff from Kalpana’s lab to give away:
Stuff is on a cart in the hallway outside Bassine 330
Science at Brandeis 