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Year 2009
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Podcasts for 2009
Stephanie Seminara on the GPR54 Gene
Dec
2009
Stephanie Seminara is a faculty member of the Reproductive
Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is lead author of
the
Top
Topics paper selection from the field of Neuroscience &
Behavior for
June 2009: "The GPR54 gene as a regulator of puberty," N.
Engl. J. Med.: 349[17]: 1614-27, Oct. 23, 2003. This paper is
included in a Research Front Map from the same period titled "
Kisspeptin and the Regulation of Reproduction.".
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Viswanath Venkatesh on User Acceptance of IT
Dec
2009
Viswanath Venkatesh is the George and Boyce Billingsley Chair of
Information Systems at the Walton College of Business in the
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He is lead author of the
Top
Topics paper selection from the field of Economics &
Business for
June 2009: “User acceptance of information technology:
Toward a unified view,” Mis. Quart. 27[3]: 425-78,
Sep. 2003.
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Zhenfeng Liu on Light-Harvesting Complex of Photosystem II
Zhenfeng Liu is currently a research associate and postdoctoral
scholar in the Rees lab at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of
the California Institute of Technology. He is lead author of the
Top
Topics paper selected from the field of Plant & Animal
Sciences for the month of
June 2009: “Crystal structure of spinach major
light-harvesting complex at 2.72 angstrom resolution”
Nature 428 [6980]: 287-92, Mar. 18, 2004. This paper is
included in a Research Front Map from the same period titled "
Light Harvesting in Plants."
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Adam G. Riess on the Hubble Space Telescope
Nov
2009
Adam G. Riess, Prof. of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins
University and a Senior member of the Science Staff at the Space
Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, discusses his 2004
Astrophysical Journal paper, "Type Ia supernova
discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence
for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution."
This paper was included in a Research Front Map titled: "
Dark Energy and the Cosmological Constant," from
Top
Topics in the field of Space Science,
June 2009.
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Pencheng Dai Discusses Superconductors
Oct
2009
Pengcheng Dai, Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics
and Astronomy at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville,
discusses his
Current
Classics Multidisciplinary paper for
June 2009: "Magnetic order close to superconductivity in the
iron-based layered LaO1-xFxFeAs systems," as published in the
journal Nature 453[7197], 899-902, Jun 12 2008.
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Alan Thompson's Current Classic Paper on MS
Oct
2009
Alan J. Thompson, Director of the University College London
Institute of Neurology, in London, UK, discusses his
June 2009 Current Classics article from the field of
Neuroscience & Behavior: "Recommended diagnostic criteria for
multiple sclerosis: Guidelines from the International Panel on the
Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis," as published in the journal
Annals of Neurology 50[1], 121-27, Jul 2001.
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Richard H. Cyburt Discusses Unstable Relic Particles
Sep
2009
Richard H. Cyburt is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in
the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics of the National
Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University
in East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Cyburt is the lead author of the
second-most-cited paper listed in the Research Front Map titled,
"The Big Bang," from
Top Topics for
April 2009 from the field of Space Science.
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Janet G. Hering on Arsenic Water Pollution
sep
2009
Janet G. Hering is Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) in Dübendorf,
Switzerland and is the coauthor of the most cited paper listed in
the Research Front Map titled,
"Arsenic Water Pollution," from
Top Topics for
April 2009 from the field of Geosciences.
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Danny Porath on Molecular Electronics
Aug
2009
Danny Porath is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physical
Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lead author of
the
Current
Classic Multidisciplinary paper for
February, 2009, entitled: "Direct measurement of electrical
transport through DNA molecules," NATURE 403[6770]:
635-38, FEB 2000. Here he discusses his research in the field of
molecular electronics.
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Dirk Schübeler on Dna and Rna Sequencing
Aug
2009
Dirk Schübeler, a Senior Group Leader in Epigenetics at the
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel,
Switzerland. Dr. Schübeler is the lead author of the
most-cited paper listed in the Research Front Map titled, "
Dna and Rna Sequencing," from
Top Topics for
April 2009 from the field of Molecular Biology & Genetics.
In this podcast, he discusses his work in this field.
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Geoffrey Burnstock & Vera Ralevic on Receptors for Purines and Pyrimidines
Jul
2009
Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Burnstock is Director of the Autonomic
Neuroscience Centre at the Royal Free and University College
Medical School in London. Vera Ralevic is an Associate Professor in
Cardiovascular Science in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the
University of Nottingham. They coauthored the
Current
Classic paper in the field of Pharmacology for
February, 2009: "Receptors for purines and pyrimidines,"
Pharmacol. Rev. 50[3]: 413-92, 1998. Read an interview
Vera Ralevic in ScienceWatch.com.
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Douglas Hanahan & Robert Weinberg on Cancer Research
Jul
2009
Douglas Hanahan, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of
California, San Francisco, along with coauthor Robert A. Weinberg,
a founder of the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research at MIT,
are coauthors of the
Current
Classic selection for
April 2009, "The hallmarks of cancer," Cell 100 [1],
57-70, 2000, discuss their research on the mechanisms of cancer.
Read a classic Science Watch® Newsletter
with
Robert A. Weinberg.
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