J. K. Wickiser Lab

Sensor Network Meeting in NYC

Ken Wickiser — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:40:46 +0000

Friday, 2 December at the Eyebeam Art+Technology Center (540 West 21st St. in NYC) there will be an interesting opportunity to partake in a brainstorming session about bringing a network of sensors to the city. Check out this flyer for details.

Giant amoebas under the ocean

Ken Wickiser — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:30:54 +0000

Brought up from deep sea studies, these amoeba are absolutely huge!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/giant-amoeba-found-mariana-trench-beneath-the-sea.html

Patenting Genes and naturally occuring small molecules

Ken Wickiser — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:36:58 +0000

Interesting piece by NPR on the patenting of natural products:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/24/141429392/deadly-monopolies-patenting-the-human-body?sc=fb&cc=fp

Identifying the Microbial Culprit of The Black Plague

Ken Wickiser — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:36:53 +0000

A microbial treasure box was just dug up and some insight was provided (via sequencing technologies) into The Black Plague

Enzymatic networks

Ken Wickiser — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:12:37 +0000

This group analyzes enzyme networks for robustness and dynamics.

A network analysis approach to prediabetes

Ken Wickiser — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:52:35 +0000

The molecular, cellular, and evironemental factors of diabetes makes for a complex problem that this group attacks using a network analysis approach.

lincRNAs impact pluipotency and cell differentiation

Ken Wickiser — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:49:39 +0000

Mouse cells have been used to demonstrate that long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) have key roles in the circuitry controlling ES cell state.

An RNA language hypothesis

Ken Wickiser — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:40:17 +0000

Here’s an interesting paper that tries to tie together miRNA function and a network between mRNAs and intergenic regions.

The essential genome of a bacterium: wants versus needs.

Ken Wickiser — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:20:30 +0000

Lucy Shaprio and colleagues have identifed the minimal set of genes required for caulobacter to thrive on rich media. This work will help others bioengineer the organism to function in a variety of roles involving the production of small molecule metabolites and the generation of biosensor systems.

Microbial Bioinfomatics tools

Ken Wickiser — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:12:21 +0000

Cool tools for microbial bioinformatics from Berkeley Lab.