Science Buzz Lunch at Institute for Chemical Research, 5-24-2012
Topics discussed included:
1) The annular solar eclipse that occurred on 5-21-2012. Observations seeming to indicate that the behavior of birds in Kyoto was not affected by the eclipse, but the behavior of dogs (howling) might have been affected.
2) Tests to screen the expression pattern of a gene whose overexpression causes severe mutant phenotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana
3) Electrophysiology experiments to study the strength of long term potentiation in different parts of the hippocampus in rats
4) Root hair formation in Arabidopsis thaliana as a model for studying responses of organogenesis to environmental conditions
5) Recent papers probing the mechanisms of RNA/protein granule formation in a cell-free system: role of low complexity (LC) sequence domains in proteins in the granules
6) Nesting of Barn Swallows near human habitation: actions of people that could affect the Barn Swallows' nesting success
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