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Adaptive Evolution Of Eel Fluorescent Proteins From Fatty Acid Binding Proteins Produces Bright Fluorescence In The Marine Environment, David F. Gruber, Jean P. Gaffney, Shaadi Mehr, Rob Desalle, John S. Sparks, Jelena Platisa, Vincent A. Pieribone

Publications and Research

We report the identification and characterization of two new members of a family of bilirubin-inducible fluorescent proteins (FPs) from marine chlopsid eels and demonstrate a key region of the sequence that serves as an evolutionary switch from non-fluorescent to fluorescent fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs). Using transcriptomic analysis of two species of brightly fluorescent Kaupichthys eels (Kaupichthys hyoproroides and Kaupichthys n. sp.), two new FPs were identified, cloned and characterized (Chlopsid FP I and Chlopsid FP II). We then performed phylogenetic analysis on 210 FABPs, spanning 16 vertebrate orders, and including 163 vertebrate taxa. We show that the fluorescent FPs diverged …

Wildlife In U.S. Cities: Managing Unwanted Animals, John Hadidian

Conservation Collection

Conflicts between people and wild animals in cities are undoubtedly as old as urban living itself. In the United States it is only of late, however, that many of the species now found in cities have come to live there. The increasing kind and number of human-wildlife conflicts in urbanizing environments makes it a priority that effective and humane means of conflict resolution be found. The urban public wants conflicts with wildlife resolved humanely, but needs to know what the alternative management approaches are, and what ethical standards should guide their use. This paper examines contemporary urban wildlife control in …

Public Attitudes To Housing Systems For Pregnant Pigs, E. B. Ryan, David Fraser, Daniel M. Weary

Housing and Confinement of Farm Animals Collection

Understanding concerns about the welfare of farm animals is important for the development of socially sustainable production practices. This study used an online survey to test how views on group versus stall housing for pregnant sows varied when Canadian and US participants were provided information about these systems, including access to scientific papers, YouTube videos, Google images, and a frequently-asked-questions page (S1 Appendix). Initial responses and changes in responses after accessing the information were analyzed from Likert scores of 242 participants and from their written comments. Participants were less willing to accept the use of gestation stalls after viewing information …

Campus Chronicle, Dee Flemings, Lauren Frederick, Brent Nichol, Katrina Nichol, Darrin Mell, Noah Nordengren, Chelsea Stratton, Stephanie Suntken, Austin Wonders, Andy Langager

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Ndls Update 11/09/2015, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

NDLS Update is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities for Law School faculty and staff.

Rotunda - Vol 94, No. 11 - Nov. 11, 2015, Longwood University

Rotunda

No abstract provided.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, November 11, 2015, The University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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Spectrum, Volume 35, Issue 8, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Pioneer purchase means big things -- Distressed children and infants international conference -- Civility lecture series -- SHU reacts to Spring Valley officer incident -- A dangerous habit, texting and driving -- Workouts with soul -- Unexpected changes to spring mission trips -- SAAC provides voice for student athletes -- Football drops third straight after loss to Duquesne

Volume 53, Number 13: November 11, 2015, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

The Diamond, November 11, 2015 [Spoof Issue], Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

No abstract provided.

Spectator 2015-11-11, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

Science Associated With Producing Gmos, Darren Stoub

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Are our understandings of GMOs based in reality? Are GMOs bad? Are they good? Should we make them? These are challenging questions. We, as a society, must discuss the issues."

Posting about the science associated with GMOs from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/the-science-associated-with-producing-gmos/

Synfind: Compiling Syntenic Regions Across Any Set Of Genomes On Demand, Haibao Tang, Matthew D. Bomhoff, Evan Briones, Liangsheng Zhang, James C. Schnable, Eric Lyons

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

The identification of conserved syntenic regions enables discovery of predicted locations for orthologous and homeologous genes, evenwhennosuchgeneispresent.Thiscapabilitymeansthatsynteny-basedmethodsarefarmoreeffectivethansequencesimilaritybased methods in identifying true-negatives, a necessity forstudying gene loss and gene transposition. However, the identification of syntenicregionsrequirescomplexanalyseswhichmustberepeatedforpairwisecomparisonsbetweenanytwospecies.Therefore,as the number of published genomes increases, there is a growing demand for scalable, simple-to-use applications to perform comparative genomic analyses that cater to both gene family studies and genome-scale studies. We implemented SynFind, a web-based tool that addresses this need. Given one query genome, SynFind is capable of identifying conserved syntenic regions in any set of targetgenomes.SynFindiscapableofreportingper-geneinformation,usefulforresearchersstudyingspecificgenefamilies,aswellas genome-wide data sets of syntenic gene and predicted gene …

Saccular Transcriptome Profiles Of The Seasonal Breeding Plainfin Midshipman Fish (Porichthys Notatus), A Teleost With Divergent Sexual Phenotypes, Joshua J. Faber-Hammond, Manoj P. Samanta, Elizabeth A. Whitchurch, Dustin Manning, Joseph A. Sisneros, Allison B. Coffin

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Acoustic communication is essential for the reproductive success of the plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus). During the breeding season, type I males use acoustic cues to advertise nest location to potential mates, creating an audible signal that attracts reproductive females. Type II (sneaker) males also likely use this social acoustic signal to find breeding pairs from which to steal fertilizations. Estrogen-induced changes in the auditory system of breeding females are thought to enhance neural encoding of the advertisement call, and recent anatomical data suggest the saccule (the main auditory end organ) as one possible target for this seasonal modulation. Here …

In Vivo Evaluation Of Adipose-Derived Stromal Cells Delivered With A Nanofiber Scaffold For Tendon-To-Bone Repair, Justin Lipner, Hua Shen, Leonardo Cavinatto, Wenying Liu, Necat Havlioglu, Younan Xia, Leesa M. Galatz, Stavros Thomopoulos

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Mmu: 11/16/15–11/22/15, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

The Monday Morning Update, or MMU as it is referred to by students, is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities of special interest to Notre Dame Law School students.

Loss Of Vglut3 Produces Circadian-Dependent Hyperdopaminergia And Ameliorates Motor Dysfunction And L-Dopa-Mediated Dyskinesias In A Model Of Parkinson's Disease., Christopher B. Divito, Kathy Steece-Collier, Daniel T. Case, Sean-Paul G. Williams, Jennifer A. Stancati, Lianteng Zhi, Maria E. Rubio, Caryl E. Sortwell, Timothy J. Collier, David Sulzer, Robert H. Edwards, Hui Zhang, Rebecca P. Seal

Department of Neuroscience Faculty Papers

UNLABELLED: The striatum is essential for many aspects of mammalian behavior, including motivation and movement, and is dysfunctional in motor disorders such as Parkinson's disease. The vesicular glutamate transporter 3 (VGLUT3) is expressed by striatal cholinergic interneurons (CINs) and is thus well positioned to regulate dopamine (DA) signaling and locomotor activity, a canonical measure of basal ganglia output. We now report that VGLUT3 knock-out (KO) mice show circadian-dependent hyperlocomotor activity that is restricted to the waking cycle and is due to an increase in striatal DA synthesis, packaging, and release. Using a conditional VGLUT3 KO mouse, we show that deletion …

Ethics And Spirituality Of Sustainability: What Can We All Do?, Satinder K. Dhiman

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This article approaches the topic of sustainability in a broad, interdisciplinary fashion − in the manner of our total footprint on the planet, not just our carbon footprint. It proposes to bring together the two allied areas of sustainability and spirituality in a dialectical manner, with ethics as a balancing force and spirituality playing the role of the proverbial invisible hand guiding our quest for sustainability. It takes the view that, in essence, spirituality and sustainability are vitally interlinked. When the spiritual dimension of our being is underdeveloped, we turn into pleasure-seeking automatons, plundering the planet in a mindless race …

Servant Leadership And Its Relationships With Core Self-Evaluation And Job Satisfaction, Len Tischler, Robert Giambatista, Robert Mckeage, David Mccormick

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Servant leadership is a growing topic in the leadership literature. Our study considered servant leadership’s relationship to two outcomes, core self-evaluation and job satisfaction. The former is particularly noteworthy because if servant leadership predicts core self-evaluation this would confirm that servant leadership affects important changes in employees as people, a central tenet of servant leadership. In addition, if servant leadership predicts core self-evaluation, this could add to the question of whether core self-evaluation is a non-changeable personality trait or is potentially malleable. We conducted a field study of three firms and found that servant leadership predicts both core self-evaluation and …

Farm Sanctuary: Caring For Our Planet (Interview With Gene Baur), Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.

Climate Change And Business Opportunities (Interview With Stefano Bertasi), Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.

Letter From The Editor & Hometown Notes, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.

Winter/Spring 2016

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.

On The Job

Jefferson Surgical Solutions

When Dr. Yeo left Johns Hopkins in October of 2005 to lead the Department of Surgery at Jefferson, he had big plans. Over the last ten years, the improvements have been dramatic across the board thanks to the support and contributions of five faculty members he selected to serve as vice chairs:

Jonathan Brody, PhD, Vice Chair for Research, supervises and facilitates research activities in the Department. To support and publicize research initiatives, Dr. Brody manages a pilot grant program for the surgical faculty, a research seminar series, and a bi-annual resident research symposium. He works with other faculty …

Dr. Lanza-Jacoby Secures Two-Year Grant From Nih National Cancer Institute

Jefferson Surgical Solutions

Team to study novel compound that blocks glucose transporter protein crucial to cancer cell growth.

Jefferson researcher Susan Lanza- Jacoby, PhD, has been awarded a two-year grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) to study the use of energy restriction mimetics to slow the progression of pancreatic cancer, reduce the incidence of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and improve the survival rate. Dr. Jacoby formally initiated the project in September with Jonathan Brody, PhD, Director of Surgical Research and Co-director of the Jefferson Pancreas, Biliary and Related Cancer Center, and Jordan Winter, MD, FACS, Associate Professor, Sidney …

The Four Divine Abodes And Fraternity: A Theravada Perspective, Ven. Sumana Barua

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

No abstract provided.

The Buddha Was Enlightened Under A Tree: A Buddhist Perspective On Nature And The Climate Crisis, Hozan Alan Senauke

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

No abstract provided.

Hypothetical Scenario, Coastal Resilience Workshop

Coastal Resilience Workshop

No abstract provided.

Illusory Rights Under The Arbitrary And Capricious Standard: Adding Remedial Safeguards To The Judicial Standard Of Review Beyond Erisa Denial Of Benefits Claims, Javier J. Diaz

Seton Hall Circuit Review

No abstract provided.