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Ant-lions of Australia
Austrogymnocnemia edwardsi, photographed by Shaun Winterton. For today's post, I'll be looking at a group of lacewings known as the Periclystina. Earlier posts on lacewings have looked at members of...
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Berry Go Round plant blog round up for July 2012
Drat! Completely lost track of what number BGR this is, but guess it doesn't matter so long as you have a link to click. So here it is, the July round up of plant blogs from over at the The Daily...
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Enjoy Wine? Thank a Wasp
Where would we be without yeast? Sober, for one thing. And stuck assembling our sandwiches between two crackers. Humans have relied on the hardworking microorganism for millennia to keep us fed and...
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Gene duplication and molecular promiscuity
Head over to the Scientific American blog for a post that discusses a recent article suggesting a link between gene duplication and the promiscuity of enzymes involved in secondary metabolism in...
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August 2012 Desktop Calendar
The summer has been in full swing here with science meetings, summer research projects, and manuscripts almost submitted. I have also been gearing up for a large vacation to France. This is the first...
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How to run a university - more cost cutting measures
The Phactor is all for cost cutting measures around the university, so long as they are smart and big enough to provide a meager raise for faculty. Now there's a dry spell we could talk about, but...
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Microbial Phylomon- Salmonella enterica
To get everyone in the mood for #microtwjc tonight, I give you the microbial phylomon card for Salmonella enterica. Previous Microbial phylomon posts can be found below:...
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And an application to Cystic Fibrosis Canada
(I wrote this yesterday but forgot to click 'Publish'.) I've been spending an inordinate amount of time preparing the 'Notification of Intent to Apply for a Discovery Grant' for NSERC, and I submitted...
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New source of post-doctoral funding
NSF has just announced what appears to be a new post-doctoral fellowship. The document linked to lists two different tracks: Broadening Participation and Interdisciplinary Research in Behavioral and...
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50th Carnival of Evolution with references
For the love of references! If the submitted posts didn't all have references for support, they do now, because host of the 50th CoE edition, Marc Srour, has provided them himself. Everyone blogger...
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New academic year = new policies
Somewhere there is a stone tablet that forms the foundation of the administration building, and craved into it is only one rule: Thou shalt not begin a new academic year without at least one new...
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Protein-ligand crystal structures: WYSI(N)WYG
Crystal structures of proteins bound to small molecules have become ubiquitous in drug discovery. These structures are routinely used for docking, homology modeling and lead optimization. Yet as...
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Opinion piece uses 14th century ideas as a counterpoint
The last day of July 2012 went out with a fizzle in the Twin Cities. This is the day the Star Tribune, arguably the paper of note in the 20th largest population area in the USA, published a...
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A Devonian Pterygote?
I was going to write a post today on Strudiella devonica, the new fossil insect described from the Late Devonian of Belgium in today's Nature (Garrouste et al. 2012). Unfortunately, there's a limit to...
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New OCD Symptom: Tail Chasing
The comments on online forums are sometimes resigned, sometimes plaintive. One four-year-old "has always has some OCD issues," reports Brookey77, "especially when it comes to tennis balls. When he was...
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Plug-in electric conversion kit for you car
In the old days, we used to mount old lawn mower motors on our bicycles to give us a power boost. There was no direct drive just the friction of a motor-turned drum against the bicycle tire, but once...
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A slick puff piece on my research for only £1960!
I just got an email from someone named Simon Jones, offering to publish an article about my research in a publication called International Innovations. Here's their website. They appear to be an...
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On Voice: My Defense
It seems that many people creationists are often put off by the use of language that may be deemed socially inappropriate. I noticed this when dealing with Cornelius Hunter and now I had anonymous (the...
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Mosses produce Scents that Attract
Photo: Erin Shortlidge, Portland State University I am a little behind in posting about the moss research that came out in the journal Nature a couple of weeks ago. Researchers found that a moss with...
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The model that's the goal of our CIHR proposal
In our new CIHR proposal we're going to propose to gather the experimental information needed to make a predictive model of genetic exchange by transformation in the respiratory tract. I've been...
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