Tudor Badea, Faculty Member in Neuroscience, is a neuroscientist at the National Eye Institute at the NIH in Bethesda. Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited him, and took this video of him talking about his research into ascertaining how retinal ganglion cells, cells that transmit the signal from the eye to the brain, participate in…
[pullquote]”We believe that if we can identify oligomers that can fold and function in the same ways as peptides and proteins do, these can be used for tremendous therapeutic benefit and would have the additional advantage of enhanced chemical diversity and enhanced stability in biological systems.”[/pullquote] Kent Kirshenbaum, professor of chemistry at New York University,…
Associate Faculty Member and F1000 Specialist Jeffrey Hannah recently attended the New York Academy of Sciences meeting on Harnessing the potential of genome editing for drug discovery: translational frontiers of in vitro and in vivo applications. Here, he tells us about the rapidly expanding uses of the technology and what he learnt in the session.
The fungal pathogen Candida albicans is one of the most persistent yeast pathogens known to man. Most people associate it only with thrush, but, as Michelle Leach explains in the video below, it is actually the fourth most common hospital-acquired bloodstream infection and has a mortality rate of 40-70%. Michelle is a post-doctoral researcher at…
With regret, we note the death of Ali Akoum, Faculty Member in Women’s Health since 2007 and Professor in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at Laval University, Quebec. Dr Akoum passed away suddenly whilst on vacation with his family in Lebanon. His colleagues and peers left heartfelt tributes for him on his obituary on the…
We are very sad to note the passing of Professor Maurice Sabelis, Ecology Faculty Member from 2004. Dr Sabelis was a professor at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He passed away on 7th January this year, after a two-year illness. IBED reports that he was “scientifically…
Toby Maher has been an F1000 Faculty Member in the Respiratory Diseases Faculty since 2011. Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited him at the Royal Brompton hospital in London, where Maher is a clinician-scientist. During Kathleen’s visit, she bumped into Prince Charles, who just happened to be making an official visit as the same time!…
Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited Dame Kay Davies in Oxford soon after she won the WISE Lifetime Achievement Award. The award celebrated her outstanding career in science, which inspired other women to follow in her footsteps. In Kathleen’s video, Dame Kay, an F1000 International Advisory Board Member, tells us about her almost 3 decades…
It is with great sadness that we mark the passing away of Allison Doupe, Section Head of the Behavioral Neuroscience Section, last week. Allison was a much-respected and beloved scholar. Among her many achievements, her pioneering work in the field of sensorimotor learning and how birds learn their songs led to the establishment of the…
Kathleen Wets, Publisher for F1000, today visited F1000 Faculty Member Hugo Spiers at the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL, London, and video-recorded him talking about his research into spatial cognition. Spiers used to work in Nobel Prize winner John O’Keefe’s lab, and his research on spatial memory, cognition and how we navigate through space follows…
