Dr. Gerald Rubin is a fly guy. He is vice president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and executive director of HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus in northern Virginia and a passionate student of the fly connectome: a map of every neural circuit in the brain of Drosophila melanogaster.
“There are more and more similarities between what we see in prion disease and what we’re seeing in Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. John Collinge, professor of neurology at University College London.
Approach any negotiation with the belief that it’s a skill we can learn and improve upon, said Kwame Christian, a lawyer and director of the American Negotiation Institute.
Recently a group of college students, all women, from the Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) gathered at Natcher Conference Center for a career-focused symposium, “Preparing Women to Lead: Women in Science Careers."
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Electron microscope image provides a close-up view of a 3-D woven scaffold on which stem cells were grown.
