News: Long live the worm! Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 30th June 2005 08:13 PM GMT] In tomorrow's (July 1) issue of Genes & Development, Siu Sylvia Lee, of the department of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and Gary Ruvkun, of the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, report ?the first ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: James Watson on?genomics, rethinking the status quo in academe, job prospects, and predicting the future at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Posted by Nicole Johnston [Entry posted at 27th June 2005 11:22 AM GMT] At the conclusion of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory phage symposium this weekend, James Watson, bedecked in tennis whites, concluded Sunday?s sessions in his inimitable fashion, touching on a range of topics and cutting straight to the point. ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: In like a lion, out like a lamb... Posted by Nicole Johnston [Entry posted at 27th June 2005 09:44 AM GMT] University of Washington genome scientist, Maynard Olson, spoke this weekend at a symposium at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in honor of the 60th anniversary of the phage course, where he discussed molecular evolution in chronic bacterial ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Communication Breakdown? Posted by Nicole Johnston [Entry posted at 26th June 2005 08:20 AM GMT] University of California Davis scientist, John Roth, speaking this morning at the Cold Spring Harbor 60th anniversary phage course symposium, discussed the tendency towards bacteria and phage laboratories becoming increasingly marginalized at many ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Celebrating 60 Years of the Cold Spring Harbor Phage Course Posted by Nicole Johnston [Entry posted at 26th June 2005 06:40 AM GMT] This weekend, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Phage Course with a two day symposium led by some of today?s most notable molecular biologists. First organized by Max Delbruck in 1945, the course has been ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Flying above the media's radar Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 24th June 2005 03:22 PM GMT] At the BIO 2005 conference earlier this week I participated in a panel discussion entitled "Guerrilla Media Tactics: Getting MORE Media Attention Without News." Part of the Public Relations/Investor Relations track, this session probably flew below ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Police officer dies at BIO 2005 Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 21st June 2005 11:09 PM GMT] Heat, humidity, and a protester/police scuffle in the streets of Philadelphia may have proved a lethal combination for Paris Williams, 52, today (June 21). The 17-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department collapsed shortly before 1 p.m. ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Medicine and the Media: Keen Eye for the Straight Story Posted by Theresa Tamkins [Entry posted at 21st June 2005 02:32 PM GMT] The relationship between business -- in this case pharma and biotech -- and the media is a tangled one. Companies hope to get the attention of major media outlets, but only if it?s the right kind. Reporters, on the other hand, are digging to get the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: You can't make an omelet... Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 20th June 2005 05:46 PM GMT] Whitehead biologist Rudolf Jaenisch spoke at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia this Friday sharing with an audience of about 300 his thoughts on nuclear reprogramming (http://www.the-scientist.com/2005/4/25/13/1), and the promise of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Individuality, Evolution, and Dancing Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 13th June 2005 06:40 PM GMT] What is the unit of evolution, the level of life upon which natural selection acts? A geneticist would say the gene; Charles Darwin saw it in the unique populations on the Galapagos. On Friday, Leticia Aviles, associate professor of zoology at the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Boobies Delight and a Sea Lion in Distress Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 12th June 2005 06:58 PM GMT] Today we saw Darwin?s classroom, finally exploring San Cristobal island after days of teasing from the sea lions we pass on the way to the conference center. Early in the morning we packed into open air trucks that took us to a tortoise preserve, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Of Fungi, Santa, and Britney Spears Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 11th June 2005 10:43 AM GMT] It's odd to be on this island that evokes images of Darwin and to hear talks in which 21st century genomics intersects 19th century ideas about naturalselection and evolution. For this reason, Mary Jane West-Eberhard of the Smithsonian Tropical ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A Recurrent Theme Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 11th June 2005 10:41 AM GMT] I just had dinner with a Drosophila geneticist, an historian of science specializing in taxonomy, a paleontologist whose expertise is trilobites, and a developmental biologist who is using sea anemone genome data to map mutants, the opposite of the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Darwin's (and Grants') Finches Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 11th June 2005 10:39 AM GMT] This morning came the talk that everyone had been waiting for - Princeton professors Peter and Rosemary Grant presented their 33-year project on the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos. When they took the stage, the local media ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: World Summit on Evolution : Day One Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 10th June 2005 07:43 AM GMT] The first full day of the World Summit on Evolution: Galapagos 2005, on the island of San Cristobal, opened to a refreshed group of 150 biologists, representing 19 nations, just emerged from a travel-induced stupor. The talks went from the origin of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Miami International Airport Posted by Ricki Lewis [Entry posted at 9th June 2005 03:39 PM GMT] I am sitting on the floor at Miami International Airport, laptop plugged into a post, scoping out the people waiting at the gate. Who are the other biologists in the crowd? Not the best or worst dressed, but probably the casual few with laptops ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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