MUSCLE BIOCHEMISTRY
Updated: 2010-01-27 13:04:24
January’s issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols wraps up the second volume of our ongoing Emerging Model Organisms series. The idea behind the series is that technical advances have allowed for great expansion in the range of organisms used for research. Each set of articles is meant to introduce the reader to a [...]
REVIEWS brief review of logarithms (PDF) Chemistry Review Session – Equilibria, pH/pK, practic
Chapter 2 Water Chapter 3 Amino Acids and the Primary Structures of Proteins Chapter 4 Proteins: Th
Metagenomics, the study of DNA isolated from naturally occurring populations and samples, is rapidly growing. Improvements to cloning and sequencing techniques are allowing researchers to study organism in environmental samples, and new knowledge of species interactions and community dynamics is emerging. The identification of microorganisms in these samples is of vital importance to [...]
Marshall Pope, PhD has been named director of the Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) Proteomics Core Facility. Together with the addition of several new instruments, Dr. Pope will establish a robust and versatile facility for both qualitative and quantitative identification of proteins and their post-translational modifications. The appointment was effective October 31, 2009.
Dr. Pope and [...]
Robert K. Murray, Daryl K. Granner, Peter A. Mayes, Victor W. Rodwell (Authors), “Harper
As the cost of sequencing declines, more and more laboratories are extending their research into metagenomics. The Metagenomics RAST Server (MG-RAST) is one of the leading tools for metagenomic analysis, and in January’s issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, Folker Meyer and colleagues from the Argonne National Laboratory present a detailed set of instructions [...]
Poster registrations are now being accepted for both poster sessions being held in conjunction with this year’s Health Sciences Research Week. The Carver College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Public Health, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Iowa Institute for Clinical and Translational Science will again be participating in the sessions.
Dates and [...]
The Carver College of Medicine is inviting individuals planning on presenting a poster during this year’s Research Week event to attend a poster presentation workshop. The purpose of the workshop is to assist students and investigators make clear and effective presentations of their research.
The workshop will be held Thursday, February 4 from 6-7:30 pm in [...]
The Carver College of Medicine, partnering with its departments, has announced the 2010 Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series slate of speakers. The series, still in its inaugural year, features top-tier scientists and physicians performing high impact research in a variety of areas. Three investigators have presented seminars since the kick-off lecture in September. These previous [...]
CCOM investigators utilizing human tissue in their research studies now have a new resource at their disposal. The Carver College of Medicine Tissue Procurement Core Facility received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval in late November and has begun the process of collecting, storing and logging tissue samples for use in current and future research. The [...]
In 2007, The University of Iowa Center on Aging developed a registry of senior research volunteers to aid UI research studies involving participants from older populations. Today, the Seniors Together in Aging Research (STAR) registry includes over 1,400 individuals age 50 and older and continues to recruit participants and facilitate clinical research.
STAR matches research volunteers [...]
University of Iowa researchers will study the most prevalent type of muscular dystrophy, thanks to a one-year, $39,998 grant from the FSH Society, Inc. The organization focuses on raising awareness and advancing research on facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), which affects about one in 14,286 individuals worldwide and currently has no treatment or cure.
A team led [...]
Two University of Iowa faculty members — one from the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and one from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — have been awarded the distinction of 2009 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and [...]
The enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) assay is considered by many to be the gold standard for monitoring cellular immune responses. The method is highly sensitive, quantitative, easy to use and amenable to high throughput screening. Until recently, the ELISPOT assay has been limited to the characterization of only one single effector molecule. [...]
I wanted to point out an excellent thought-provoking article by my Scholarly Kitchen colleague Michael Clarke, titled Why Hasn’t Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already? I know many readers here are interested in the future of scientific communication, and Clarke makes some interesting arguments for why journals are likely to persist.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is hosting the movie figures that accompany the new lab manual, Live Cell Imaging, Second Edition, edited by Robert Goldman, Jason Swedlow and David Spector, . These movies are freely accessible to all, and worth a look if you’re interested in seeing the state of the art in time lapse [...]
4-dimensional live cell imaging has gone from being a rare technique used only by cutting-edge laboratories to a mainstream method in use everywhere. While more and more labs are becoming comfortable with the equipment and protocols needed to collect imaging data, performing detailed analyses is often problematic. The application of computational image processing [...]
With the recent progress in understanding epigenetic mechanisms, methods for profiling patterns of DNA modification have become important tools for analysis of gene regulation. DNA methylation, in which cytosine is modified to form 5-methylcytosine, is a well-characterized epigenetic modification essential for normal development in plants and mammals. In the December issue of Cold [...]