ISG Faculty Janet Sinsheimer recently published “Rooting Gene Trees without Outgroups: EP Rooting” in the journal of Genome Biology and Evolution, May 2012. Abstract: Gene sequences are routinely used to determine the topologies of unrooted phylogenetic trees, but many of the most important questions in evolution require knowing both the topologies and the roots of trees. However, general algorithms for calculating rooted trees from…
The Architectural Procedures of Arikawa + Gins. Check out at the Art of Aging Symposium on Saturday May 12th, at 12:00-4:00pm at California Nanosytems Institute at UCLA!
The newly opened Center for PostNatural History founded by Rich Pell in Pittsburgh is the first museum that seeks to catalog man-made biological organisms. Pell is not a scientist, but an artist, one member of a growing DIY community that is exploring–and making–a new meaning of life as we know it. Pell is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at…
ISG Assistant Professor Aaron Panofsky’s research was recently discussed as part of an article in Science Careers. The article explores how disease researchers can reach out to patients by building a relationship with a patient advocacy group.
ISG professor, Dr. Soraya de Chadarevian, recently published a paper entitled “Making of Entrepreneurial Science: Biotechnology in Britain”. Abstract: Monoclonal antibodies played a key role in the development of the biotechnology industry of the 1980s and 1990s. Investments in the sector and commercial returns have rivaled those of recombinant DNA technologies. Although the monoclonal antibody technology was first developed in Britain, the first…