In these interviews, scientists talk to ScienceWatch.com and
offer behind-the-scenes insights into their research: reflections on
what led them to their chosen field, the motivation driving their work
in a given direction, and the challenges encountered along on the way.
These authors also offer their views on why their work has wielded
particular influence in the scientific community, as indicated by
Clarivate
citation data, and on how research in their respective fields has
progressed over time and will likely unfold in the future.
Featured interviews for August 2008 are listed below.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The implications
of our research are primarily in
understanding human disease.
Additional physiological roles for
TRPC channels and Orai proteins in
asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and
psychiatric disorders are being
discovered by many groups using
mice which have"
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Invasive
cervical cancer in the majority of
countries in the world is still the
#1 or #2 cancer in women. Where
there is screening
activity—the Pap
test—the fatalities have
dropped significantly, and in these
populations it’s typically
the sixth or seventh most common
cancer in women..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "...there has been
so much debate on the hydrological
role of (tropical) forest in recent
years that many people have become
confused and simply do not know
what to believe anymore. The issue
is rather complex indeed, in that
the effect of deforestation or
reforestration..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The main
contribution of the "relational
view" paper was that it outlined a
theory for considering dyads and
networks of firms as a key unit of
analysis for explaining superior
individual firm performance. The
strategy field is fundamentally
concerned with explaining
differential firm performance
..."
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Olivier Gascuel
leads a research group at
LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France.
Here he discusses his work in
bioinformatics and comparative
genomics. Gascuel has been named
a
Current
Classics scientist
(Env./Eco.) for
Aug. 2008, and has provided
commentary in a
Fast Breaking
Paper in the same field.
Podcast added August 9,
2008.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Graphene is a single
atomic plane of graphite.
Graphite is a stack of graphene
planes. It’s very
important to emphasize that all
matter, all materials we knew
before this, were and are
three-dimensional materials.
Even those that were called one-
or
two-dimensional..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The
Department is grounded in
fundamental science. Research in
the early days focused on microbial
genetics, such as the search for
the tumor-inducing principle (TIP)
in A. tumefaciens. The
laboratory achieved its first
international breakthrough in the
mid-'70s with the discovery that
the TIP..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This manuscript
reviews the ways vegetable oils and
animal fats can be processed for
use as mobile fuels with a
particular emphasis on the
state-of-the-art of the
transesterification process, which
is the generally accepted method of
converting fats and oils to
biodiesel today..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The broad impact
of the 2004 MISQ paper continues to
be strong as researchers in the
Information Systems field recognize
the value design science brings to
a research project. Design science
offers an effective means of
addressing the..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This paper
summarizes and evaluates several
important fuel properties—for
example, cetane number, viscosity,
and oxidative stability—that
are determined by the major
components of biodiesel, i.e.,
alkyl esters of fatty acids. By
combining insights on the various
properties, it points in a
direction..."
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Christopher
Lipinski,Scientific Advisor to Melior
Discovery, Inc., Exton, PA- Podcast
Here he discusses
his 1997 article from
Advanced Drug Delivery
Reviews, "Experimental and
Computational Approaches to
Estimate Solubility and
Permeability in Drug Discovery
and Development Settings." In
addition he also appeared as a
Current
Classics scientist for
Feb. &
Apr. 2008.
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Excerpt from the
interview:
"Attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) is a
prevalent disorder also
associated with a wide range of
adverse outcomes across the
lifespan, justifying the
scientific and lay interest in
it. This study comprehensively
addresses the distribution of
ADHD..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "One big unknown
and "final frontier" is what is
happening below ground, i.e., in
the soil. Soil contains about four
times more carbon than the
atmosphere, and annual global soil
respiration fluxes are, for
example, 10-fold higher than human
fossil fuel CO2
emissions. While..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "We demonstrate
that climate fluctuations affect
the dynamics of populations through
how the ways in which individuals
within and between different
species interact. Furthermore,
since we do this within a classical
ecology conceptual framework, we
brought mainstream..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This paper
provided a comprehensive study on
the synthesis mechanism of highly
ordered mesoporous materials. This
paper was one of first papers to
use a special type of neutral
surfactant molecule
(polyoxyethylene alkyl ether) as a
templating agent to tailor the
organization..."
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David Teece is Professor in the
Haas School of Business at UC,
Berkeley. Here he discusses his
concept of “applied
industrial organization.”
Teece has been named a
Current
Classics scientist (Eco.
& Bus.) for
Apr. 2008. Podcast added August
19, 2008.
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Excerpt from the
interview:
"Zootaxa has become
the largest and the most important
journal in taxonomy, and taxonomy
has been fundamental to all
branches of biological sciences,
especially biodiversity,
biogeography, and evolutionary
development, as well as of ecology,
the environment..."
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(Additional
interviews/commentaries will be
added during August 2008)