After 9-month national search, Nigel Mouncey, currently Research and Development Director for Bioengineering and Bioprocessing at Dow AgroSciences LLC, has been selected as the Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a +U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility.

“Nigel brings the perfect set of scientific and management skills as well as the relevant experience necessary to lead the JGI into its next decade of advancing the frontiers of energy and environmental genomics,” said Jay Keasling, the Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences at +Berkeley Lab, to whom the position will report. More at: http://jgi.doe.gov/industrial-biotechnology-leader-assume-helm-doe-joint-genome-institute/


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Improved Microscope, Manufacturing Company Created By WSU Physicist
After years of research and innovation, WSU physicist Matthew McCluskey has launched Klar Scientific, a company focused on manufacturing a new style microscope that collects more information about materials in less time and at a lower cost. See WSU News at https://news.wsu.edu/2017/01/05/need-better-microscope-prompts-launch-startup/

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Research Locates Absence Epilepsy Seizure ‘Choke Point’ in Brain
A particular structure in the brain is a “choke point” for a type of epileptic seizure that affects mostly children, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have found.

The researchers used an advanced technology called optogenetics to show, in rodent models of one of the most common forms of childhood epilepsy, that inducing synchronized, rhythmic activity in a specific nerve tract within this structure is sufficient to cause seizures, while disrupting that activity is sufficient to terminate them.

The new findings, described in a study published online Dec. 15 in Neuron, point to the possibility of improved ways of reducing, halting or possibly even preventing absence seizures in susceptible children. There’s reason to think these findings may also apply to a wider range of seizure types, including the more dramatic and better-known grand mal, characterized by involuntary jerking movements in addition to loss of consciousness.

PR:
http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/12/research-at-stanford-locates-absence-epilepsy-seizure.html

Journal article:
http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(16)30864-9

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Brain waves can be used to detect potentially harmful personal information
Securing systems has gone beyond simply coming up with a clever password that could prevent nefarious computer experts from hacking into your email account. The more sophisticated the system, or the more critical, private information that system holds, the more advanced the identification system protecting it becomes.

Fingerprint scans and iris identification are just two types of authentication methods, once thought of as science fiction, that are in wide use by the most secure systems. But fingerprints can be stolen and iris scans can be replicated. Nothing has proven foolproof from being subject to computer hackers.

“The principal argument for behavioral, biometric authentication is that standard modes of authentication, like a password, authenticates you once before you access the service,” said Abdul Serwadda a cybersecurity expert and assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech University.

“Now, once you’ve accessed the service, there is no other way for the system to still know it is you. The system is blind as to who is using the service. So the area of behavioral authentication looks at other user-identifying patterns that can keep the system aware of the person who is using it. Through such patterns, the system can keep track of some confidence metric about who might be using it and immediately prompt for reentry of the password whenever the confidence metric falls below a certain threshold.”

One of those patterns that is growing in popularity within the research community is the use of brain waves obtained from an electroencephalogram, or EEG. Several research groups around the country have recently showcased systems which use EEG to authenticate users with very high accuracy.

However, those brain waves can tell more about a person than just his or her identity. It could reveal medical, behavioral or emotional aspects of a person that, if brought to light, could be embarrassing or damaging to that person. And with EEG devices becoming much more affordable, accurate and portable and applications being designed that allows people to more readily read an EEG scan, the likelihood of that happening is dangerously high.

Serwadda said the technology is still evolving in terms of being able to use a person’s brain waves for authentication purposes. But it is a heavily researched field that has drawn the attention of several federal organizations. The National Science Foundation (NSF), funds a three-year project on which Serwadda and others from Syracuse University and the University of Alabama-Birmingham are exploring how several behavioral modalities, including EEG brain patterns, could be leveraged to augment traditional user authentication mechanisms.

Source and further reading
http://today.ttu.edu/posts/2016/09/brain-waves

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Veggies with Vision: Do Plants See the World around Them?
Don't look now, but that tree may be watching you. Several lines of recent research suggest that plants are capable of vision—and may even possess something akin to an eye, albeit a very simple one.
The idea that plants may have “eyes” is, in a way, nothing new. In 1907 Francis Darwin, Charles's son, hypothesized that leaves have organs that are a combination of lens-like cells and light-sensitive cells.

Experiments in the early 20th century seemed to confirm that such structures, now called ocelli, exist, but the concept of a “seeing plant” fell by the wayside—only to reemerge in the past few years.
In a recent issue of Trends in Plant Science, František Baluška, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Stefano Mancuso, a plant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetation.

To make their case, the researchers first point to the 2016 discovery that Synechocystis cyanobacteria, single-celled organisms capable of photosynthesis, act like ocelli. “These cyanobacteria use the entire cell body as a lens to focus an image of the light source at the cell membrane, as in the retina of an animal eye,” says University of London microbiologist Conrad Mullineaux, who helped to make the discovery.

Although researchers are not sure what the purpose of this mechanism is, its existence suggests that a similar one could have evolved in higher plants. “If something like this is already present at the lower level of evolution, it is most likely kept,” Baluška says.
Recent work also shows that some plants, such as the cabbage and mustard relative Arabidopsis, make proteins that are involved in the development and functioning of eyespots—the ultrabasic eyes found in some single-celled organisms such as green algae.

These proteins specifically show up in structures called plastoglobuli, which are famed for giving autumn leaves their red and orange hues. “This discovery suggests that plastoglobuli in plants may act as eyespots,” Baluška says.

Other observational research reveals plants have visual capabilities we just do not understand yet. For instance, as reported in 2014 in Current Biology, the climbing wood vine Boquila trifoliolata can modify its leaves to mimic the colors and shapes of its host plant.

Interesting reading via Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/veggies-with-vision-do-plants-see-the-world-around-them/#

Paper:
http://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/abstract/S1360-1385(16)30192-3

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Swiss stargazers win Wolf prize for exoplanet research

Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz have been awarded Israel’s prestigious Wolf prize for physics for their research into exoplanets. They are among eight laureates this year from the United States, Britain and Switzerland.

Professor Mayor, from the University of Geneva and the University of Cambridge in Britain, and Professor Queloz, from the University of Geneva, were awarded the physics prize for their discovery of an extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, orbiting around a star similar to the sun.


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Our results showed significantly greater effects of Spirulina than Silymarin on most studied parameters including the significantly greater reduction of serum ALT and the greater improvement in both disease specific health related quality of life and sexual functions scores. Though the virological response rates were not statistically significantly different between the 2 treatment groups, yet it reached the level of significance with the one sided Z test for proportions in those who presented with low or intermediate baseline viremia.


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Professional Research Assistant in the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Center Program (PVDC) as a component of the Center for Lungs and Breathing (CLB) at University of Colorado Hospital. This full-time position will assist in conducting clinical trials and research projects for the PVDC Program.

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The research ecosystem in India presents a significant opportunity for multinational corporations across the world due to its intellectual capital available in the country.

Legions of Indian engineers working across the globe highlight the highly trained manpower available at competitive costs.

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