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Enjoy the inaugural issue of the IU College of Arts and Sciences online magazine, THE COLLEGE.
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Violet-eared waxbills are a type of Estrildid finch native to southern Africa. The species is one of five examined in a recent paper in Science by neurobiologists James Goodson, Marcy Kingsbury and others.
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Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Colloquium
Sept 2, 2009
4 - 5 p.m.
Swain Hall 119, IU Bloomington
Dobrin Bossev, assistant professor of physics, is the guest lecturer. Bossev is an expert on soft condensed matter, particularly the structure and dynamics of complex fluid systems. An introductory tea begins at 3:30 p.m. in Swain Hall 113. For more information, please contact Mike Snow at wsnow@indiana.edu or visit http://www.indiana.edu/~iubphys/.
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Scientist at Work: Virginia Vitzthum
Life is all about tradeoffs, judging prospective investments by their risks and rewards, and an Indiana University evolutionary anthropologist has shown this to be true at the very beginnings of life: When costs outweigh benefits, successful pregnancies are less likely to occur.
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To improve research productivity and enable new possibilities in research, the Research Technologies Division and the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University are sponsoring Data Services Day, a free event open to all academic and scientific researchers, students, faculty and staff interested in database and data management for use in research. The event will take place in Indianapolis on Tuesday, Sept. 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at University Place Conference Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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Extra genomes appear, on average, to offer no benefit or disadvantage to plants, but still play a key role in the origin of new species, say scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and three other institutions in the Aug. 10, 2009, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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In response to the growing challenges focused on global energy acquisition and use, close to 200 faculty from every campus at Indiana University gathered Aug. 6 and 7 to begin the process of formulating a comprehensive energy research plan for IU. IU's energy plan will identify pressing challenges in Indiana and the nation, and ways IU can contribute to sustainable solutions.
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What do flocks of birds have in common with trust, monogamy, and even the release of breast milk? According to a new report in the journal Science, they are regulated by virtually identical neurochemicals in the brain, known as oxytocin in mammals and mesotocin in birds.
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Evidence buried in the chromosomes of animals and plants strongly suggests only one group -- mammals -- have seen their genomes shrink after the dinosaurs' extinction. What's more, that trend continues today, say Indiana University Bloomington scientists in the first issue of a new journal, Genome Biology and Evolution.
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The coevolutionary struggle between a New Zealand snail and its worm parasite makes sex advantageous for the snail, whose females favor asexual reproduction in the absence of parasites, say Indiana University Bloomington and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology biologists in the journal Current Biology.
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The July 21, 2009, issue of IU Discoveries featured IU East biologist Kimberly Greer, who studies longevity in dogs and other mammals. Also featured are stories about mitosis, the TeraGrid, IU's new Vice President for Technology Commercialization Marie Kerbeshian, nucleons, a research center designation for the IU School of Optometry in Bloomington, and a Pew Charitable Trusts award for IU Bloomington cell biologist Joseph Pomerening.
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Some recent titles by IU researchers
"Biophysics of Parkinson's Disease: Structure and Aggregation of alpha-Synuclein," Current Protein and Peptide Science, Oct. 1, 2009, by V.N. Uversky and D. Eliezer
"Steady state and induced auditory gamma deficits in schizophrenia," NeuroImage, Oct. 1, 2009, by G.P. Krishnan, W.P. Hetrick, C.A. Brenner, A. Shekhar, A.N. Steffen, and B.F. O'Donnell
"Neonatal maternal separation-induced changes in glucocorticoid receptor expression in posterior interpositus interneurons but not projection neurons predict deficits in adult eyeblink conditioning," Neuroscience Letters, Sept. 4, 2009, by A.A. Wilber and C.L. Wellman
"The development of imitation in infancy," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Aug. 27, 2009, by S.S. Jones
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Did you know? IU graduates, former students and current and former members of the IU Alumni Association are eligible to create an IU Network ID.
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