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takes you behind the scenes of highly cited research in these
interviews, essays, and rankings featuring researchers in a variety of
fields. Author commentaries come from all areas of
ScienceWatch.com. There are also interviews with authors
featured within every Special Topic
and corresponding Research Front Map. In addition, there are comments
from authors who have papers featured in
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Fast-Moving Fronts,
New Hot Papers,
Fast-Breaking Papers,
Current Classics, and
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authors’ work featured in their papers.
November
2009
Miguel Araújo; "My research is driven
by three unifying questions: 1) how did past climate
changes affect biodiversity? 2) how might current and
future environmental changes affect biodiversity? 3) how
can biodiversity be conserved given current and future
challenges? To address these questions I use
large..."
Special Topic of
Climate Change
November
2009 Gustavo
Bruzual & Stéphane Charlot; "Our paper
provides the interested users with a tool to interpret
the spectral energy distributions of stellar
populations in galaxies, all the way from the Milky Way
to the most distant galaxies discovered in the
universe. The evolution in time of the light emitted by
stars in..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009
Philip C. Calder; "This paper is a review
article that begins by describing the respective roles of
omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids in inflammation and the
mechanisms of action involved. The article then goes on to
review the evidence from animal models and from human
studies that marine omega-3 fatty acids..." New Hot
Papers, November 2009
November
2009
Lorenzo Cerretani; "Olive oil, and more
correctly virgin olive oil, is a very complex matrix
constituted mainly of triglycerides (>98%), although
minor components are the most interesting. This fraction
contains some molecules (i.e. phenolic compounds,
tocopherols, and squalene) that are
interesting..."
Featured Scientist Interview
November
2009
Patrice Codogno; "While studying the
intracellular trafficking of N-linked glycoproteins in
human colon cancer cells, my team’s studies revealed
slight trimming of high-mannose glycans in the complex
glycans in undifferentiated cells, but not in
differentiated cells. Lysosomal inhibitors and
3-methyladenine..."
Special Topic of
Autophagy
November
2009 David
L. Collinson; "The paper illustrates how employee
Identities and insecurities
concerns to create, maintain and protect identity can
crucially impact on their behavior and be shaped by
workplace processes. Overall, the article reveals the
significance and complexity – both in theory and
practice..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009 Amy
L. Davidson; "Our team of authors put a lot of time
and effort into compiling as complete a review of
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters in bacteria as
we could, and combined that with an up-to-date
discussion of progress in understanding of the
structure and mechanism of ABC transporters..." New Hot
Papers, November 2009
November
2009
Robert Freedman; "The targeting of nicotinic
receptors for therapeutic treatment of mental disorders is
an emerging field of translational research. A long history
of basic inquiry into this mechanism of neurotransmission
is now being used to devise new treatment possibilities for
patients...." New Hot
Papers, November 2009
November
2009 Alex
Guenther; "The accurate characterization of
isoprene emissions and their response to a changing
earth system is a difficult challenge. There are
physical, chemical, and biological controlling factors
that operate on scales ranging from individual cells to
plant canopies and the global earth system..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009
Bridget Hamre; "This paper came out at a time
when there was renewed interest in understanding the ways
in which classrooms and teachers can contribute to positive
outcomes for students. Despite a lot of evidence in the
developmental literature about the importance of
children’s relationships and..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009 Joshua
Heazlewood; "The Arabidopsis thaliana
genome was sequenced nearly 10 years ago and, in the
time since, a significant world-wide investment has
been made to determine the function of the ~30,000
proteins encoded by this model plant. Knowing the
sub-cellular location of a protein provides a
researcher..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009 Judy
Illes & Eric Racine; "Our article was one of
the first papers in neuroethics that bridged research
on the ethics of genomics and genetics with new
challenges brought about by functional neuroimaging.
The paper highlighted that both scientific and
sociocultural factors are important in
interpreting..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009
Thomas V. Inglesby; "Thomas V. Inglesby,
deputy director of the Center for Biosecurity of the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, discusses recent
efforts to prepare for biological threats, both natural and
human-made. Making the country resilient to such threats,
via accelerated development of vaccines..." Science Watch® Newsletter Interview
November
2009 Ronald
L. Klueh; "Engineers and designers of conventional
fossil-fired power-generation plants constantly push
for increased efficiency in an effort to produce more
power with less pollution. To increase efficiency,
higher operating temperatures are required. In the case
of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009
Zhenfeng Liu; "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..." Podcast
November
2009
Andrew A. Meharg; "I had a long history of
studying the physiology of arsenic metabolism in wild
plants, but researching rice started when a PhD student I
was supervising came from Bangladesh to study arsenic in
rice as he had realized that problems may be occurring due
to the practice..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009 Jan
Nedergaard; "I have been working on brown adipose
tissue for, at the time of the article's publication,
nearly 30 years, and now even longer as I still pursue
these issues. When I first became involved, it was in a
purely scientific field of study which was not intended
to lead to benefits for mankind..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009 Roza
I. Nurieva & Chen Dong; "Upon activation, CD4+
T cells differentiate into distinct effector lineages
that regulate different types of immune responses.
Germinal center structures where activated B cells
undergo tremendous proliferation have been associated
with autoimmune diseases and B..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009
Krzysztof Palczewski; "We were always
interested in molecular detail of vision, namely the
understanding of proteins, protein interactions, and signal
transduction involved in eyesight at a structural level.
We'd been working for many years on different proteins of
visual signal transduction. It wasn't until a..."
Featured Paper Interview
November
2009
Peter Palese; "This is literally the result of
more than 10 years of work. My lab was the first one to
develop a system that allows changing the genome of an
influenza virus. So why is that important? In order to
study influenza virus or other viruses, you would like to
change a particular amino acid and then look for
whether..."
Special Topic of H1N1
Flu
November
2009
Steven Phillips, Rob Anderson, & Rob
Schapire; "Our paper introduced a
mathematically rigorous method (Maxent) for modeling
species geographic distributions, based on known
occurrences and environmental (especially climatic)
predictor variables. Applying such models to predicted
future climatic conditions enables prediction of
climate-change impact on individual species..."
Special Topic of
Climate Change
November
2009
Adam G. Reiss; "Adam G. Reiss, 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..." Podcast
November
2009 Christian
C. Ruff; "In our study, we combined neuroimaging
with a method to stimulate neurons in the human brain.
This strategy enabled us to show directly that
(stimulation-induced) neural activity in a region in
the frontal part of the human brain can change visual
processing in interconnected posterior visual..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009
Patrik Schmuki; "After a more or less
coincidental finding we followed up on the electrochemical
formation of self-organized TiO2 nanotube for several years
and improved aspect ratio, tube-wall morphology , and
long-range ordering. Key findings were the essential role
of the control of pH-gradient..." New Hot
Papers, November 2009
November
2009 Hans
R. Schöler; "Tremendous debate has arisen in
both the scientific community and the general public
over the past decade regarding the derivation and use
of human embryonic stem cells. Though the derivation of
human embryonic stem cells is fraught with ethical
considerations, the potential..." New Hot
Papers, November 2009
November
2009 John
D. Storey; In this Fast Moving Front
commentary, John D. Storey talks with
ScienceWatch.com about his 2005 PROC NAT
ACAD SCI USA paper, "Significance analysis of time
course microarray experiments," in the Multidisciplinary
field. Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009 Maureen
Storey; "...our paper carefully examined several
theories about high-fructose corn syrup, a common
sweetener in the food supply that had been hypothesized
to be a major cause of obesity. The careful analysis by
the expert panel dispelled many of the urban myths that
had grown out of proposed..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
November
2009
Rolf-Detlef Treede & Troels Staehelin
Jensen; "Within the field of pain research,
neuropathic pain is one of the most active research areas
both in the basic and clinical sciences. We address the
definition of the phenomenon "neuropathic pain" itself and
provide a grading scheme based on positive identification
criteria..." New Hot
Papers, November 2009
November
2009 Oleg
V.Yazyev; "Our work is at the intersection of two
rapidly evolving fields – science of graphene and
magnetism in carbon-based materials. Five years after
the first isolation of graphene this material has
become a major research focus in physics, and now
graphene rapidly penetrates into the neighboring
fields..." Fast Moving
Fronts, November 2009
(Additional
interviews/commentaries may be added during November
2009.)