Current Protocols - Beyond the Bench

Join us at the 58th annual American Society of Human Genetics meeting!

Posted by sarahandrus on November 4, 2008

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The City of Brotherly Love is hosting this year’s ASHG meeting, November 11-15 at the Philadelphia Convention Center.  This is an opportunity to network with professionals involved in research, technology, and publications relating to the field of human genetics.  Highlights include the latest developments in epigenetics, non-coding RNAs, triplet expansions, pharmacogenetics, and therapy for genetic disorders.  The UCSC Genome Browser, an essential tool for interpreting genetic and genomic information, will also be presented.  Online registration ends tomorrow.

Attendees are encouraged to stop by our Meet the Editor sessions, where three distinguished scientists on the editorial board of Current Protocols in Human Genetics will be available to answer questions and discuss current research.  The schedule for these sessions is as follows:

Wednesday, November 12, 4:30-5:30 pm

Bruce R. Korf, MD, PhD, University of Alabama

Thursday, November 13, 4:30-5:30 pm

Jonathon L. Haines, PhD, Vanderbilt University

Friday, November 14, 10:30-11:30 am

Cynthia C. Morton, PhD, Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Current Protocols can be found at the Wiley-Blackwell booth (1001 & 1003) inside the convention center.  Friendly representatives from Wiley will be there to answer your questions and show you sample copies of Current Protocols in Human Genetics, as well as Wiley’s many book and journal titles in this subject.

Take some time to explore Philadelphia, and be sure to check out the exciting activity at this year’s meeting.  For more information on ASHG and a schedule of events, visit http://www.ashg.org/2008meeting.  See you there!

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Current Protocols Launches Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques

Posted by cpeditorial on November 3, 2008

Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques (CPET) provides every researcher with the skills and understanding of fundamental laboratory procedures needed to ensure greater success at the bench. CPET takes the novice researcher from very basic skills like weight and volume measurement, through reagent preparation and the use of routine instrumentation, and finally into advanced topics such as real-time PCR and bioinformatics. In addition CPET:

  • Teaches new investigators how to formulate basic research questions and plan the experiments needed to answer them
  • Describes solution chemistry and preparation
  • Covers basic laboratory safety
  • Provides instruction on the care and use of common equipment such as pH meters, spectrophotometers, centrifuges, and microscopes
  • Teaches how to manage information from lab notebooks, images, and literature references, as well as manuscript preparation
  • Details modern bioinformatics techniques
  • Provides practical guides to outsourcing tasks such as sequencing and oligonucleotide synthesis

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Wiley Authors Once Again Receive Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Posted by cpeditorial on October 10, 2008

Wiley Authors Once Again Receive Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Wiley is pleased to announce that all three 2008 Chemistry Nobel laureates are part of our publishing community. We congratulate Dr. Osamu Shimomura, Dr. Martin Chalfie, and Dr. Roger Y. Tsien on their award for having discovered green fluorescent protein and related marine photoproteins, and for having developed them into highly useful tools for chemical, biological, and medical analysis.The original discovery of green fluorescent protein was reported by Osamu Shimomura in 1962 in Wiley’s Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology.

Green Fluorescent Protein: Properties, Applications, and Protocols, a highly influential book by Martin Chalfie, which also contains contributions by the other two awardees, was published by Wiley in 1998. It has greatly facilitated the use of this groundbreaking technology and has become the classic text in the field. Martin Chalfie wrote, in the preface to the second edition (2006): In the preface to the first edition of this book seven years ago, we predicted that we were just beginning to see the usefulness of GFP. Although we expected many new uses for this molecule, we are amazed at the extent to which GFP, its derivatives, and similar fluorescent proteins have been used in biology today.”

More of the Nobel laureates’ work has appeared in ten Wiley journals and periodicals including ChemBioChem, Cytometry, Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Journal of Neurobiology, Journal of Neurochemistry, Luminescence, Photochemistry and Photobiology, The Harvey Lectures, and The Plant Journal. A historical account of the discovery of green fluorescent protein written by Osamu Shimomura can be found in the book Photoproteins in Bioanalysis (2006).

These distinguished scientists join more than 350 other Nobel laureates who have published with Wiley, including this year’s Medicine awardees Dr. Harald zur Hausen, Dr. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, and Dr. Luc Montagnier, and Physics awardee Yoichiro Nambu, and last year’s nine winners, Dr. Gerhard Ertl, Dr. Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin Evans, Dr. Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg , Leonid Hurwicz, Dr. Erik Maskin, Dr. Roger Myerson, and Dr. Oliver Smithies. .

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Epidemiology of Vibrio Cholerae

Posted by cpeditorial on October 9, 2008

University of Maryland researchers in Dr. Rita Colwell’s group study the epidemiology of Vibrio cholerae and its ability to cause sudden explosive epidemics at multiple places. In their Current Protocols in Microbiology article, “Detection, Isolation, and Identification of Vibrio cholerae from the Environment“, they describe methods for studying this pathogenic organism. Their methods range from traditional culturing and serological testing, to more advanced molecular and immunological techniques (multiplex PCR, Direct Fluorescent Antibody–Direct Viable Count [DFA-DVC]). Now, their research has really expanded beyond the boundaries of the laboratory. A recent Discovery News article, written by Eric Bland, reports that Dr. Colwell’s group is studying satellite images to determine when ocean conditions become favorable to the growth of copepods, a crustacean with which Vibrio cholerae is associated. Their thoughts are that the better the conditions for this crustacean, the greater are the chances that an epidemic of cholera will occur. If this is so, health workers can beat off the epidemic by getting antibiotics and clean drinking water into an area before the outbreak occurs.

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“I will miss the NIH and all my colleagues…”

Posted by cpeditorial on October 6, 2008

It’s the end of an era at the NIH.

 

Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., the director of the National Institutes of Health, stated on September 24th that he will be stepping down from his position in October of this year. He will be leaving the position that he held since 2002.

 

Please see the full story here.

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