Science Buzz Lunch in Building 2, 6- 26-2012
Topics discussed included:
1) Foods (including strawberries) that may be effective against pollen allergies
2) Non-harmful methods used to collect genetic material from Green Sea Turtles (a protected species) for population genetic analyses, and to tag individual turtles for tracking
3) The periodic shift of the magnetic poles of the sun, including a possible shift this year from the existence of 2 poles to the existence of 4 poles, and possible effects on the sun's activity level, and consequently on the earth's climate
4) The recent achievement of self-organizing optic-cup morphogenesis in three-dimensional cultures of human embryonic stem cells, and how this resolves a long debate over whether intrinsic cues drive optic cup morphogenesis (they do).
Topics discussed included:
1) Foods (including strawberries) that may be effective against pollen allergies
2) Non-harmful methods used to collect genetic material from Green Sea Turtles (a protected species) for population genetic analyses, and to tag individual turtles for tracking
3) The periodic shift of the magnetic poles of the sun, including a possible shift this year from the existence of 2 poles to the existence of 4 poles, and possible effects on the sun's activity level, and consequently on the earth's climate
4) The recent achievement of self-organizing optic-cup morphogenesis in three-dimensional cultures of human embryonic stem cells, and how this resolves a long debate over whether intrinsic cues drive optic cup morphogenesis (they do).
5) The competition for scholarships awarded by the Tomizawa Jun-ichi & Keiko Fund of Molecular Biology Society of Japan for Young Scientists
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