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Are Fisheries Turning the Corner?
Experts discuss the tradeoffs necessary to maintain fish stocks and how scientists arrive at the standards for fishery health during an event sponsored by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the Ocean Policy Working Group at the Duke University Center for International Studies and the Nicholas School of the Environment. The event, which utilized telepresence technology to connect participants from across the country, featured the Nicholas Institute's Linwood Pendleton, The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin, the University of Washington's Ray Hilborn, Dalhousie University's Boris Worm and others.Published 1 year ago
Duke's first Clinical Science Day Provides Forum for Learning, Exchanging Ideas
Faculty, residents and students who attended Duke University School of Medicine's inaugural Clinical Science Day 2012 enjoyed a rare opportunity to receive continuing medical education credit while learning about the vast array of clinical research going on across the medical campus. They also saw, firsthand, the potential such a forum presents for future interdisciplinary collaborations."This was about creating synergism across departments and across investigators," explained Theodore Pappas, M.D., Vice Dean for Medical Affairs, and co-moderator of the March 3 event. "We hope people can learn from one another, then get together at a future date and possibly develop projects that would not have been created otherwise."
In her opening remarks, Dean Nancy C. Andrews, M.D., Ph.D., said Clinical Science Day has the potential to become an annual event. "We need opportunities like this, which invite us to come out of our labs and clinics to discover what is going on around us across this diverse, academic medical center. The collaborations that have resulted from a similar forum, Basic Science Day, are proof that these events serve an important purpose."
Department chairs, vice chairs of research, and professors representing each of the School's 13 clinical departments offered synopses of their work in progress, as well as recent achievements. For example, Daniel Benjamin, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., a professor of pediatrics, provided a snapshot of his involvement with the NIH-funded Pediatric Trials Network. G. Chad Hughes, M.D., associate professor of surgery, highlighted the contemporary results for proximal aortic replacement in North America, while Amy P. Murtha, M.D., Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, reported on the current understanding of premature rupture of membranes. Many of the presentations were followed by short, engaging question-and-answer sessions.
"I liked the dialogue," said Mark Stacy, M.D., Vice Chair for Clinical Research, who co-moderated the event with Pappas. "I liked that we talked about research and accomplishments. So often we don't talk about accomplishments; we talk about process. My job is to make the process work better but it's fun to see the validation of the work we do day in and out."
Residents and fellows were invited to compete in a poster contest, which participants, like psychiatry resident Thadeus Koontz, M.D., described as a beneficial experience. "I received excellent suggestions for new applications of our deep sequencing and pathogen detection bioinformatic pipeline. I was also approached by a gentleman interested in collaborating with us on bioinformatics which we have a desperate need for."
Pappas and Stacy were joined by Robert Harrington, M.D., Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Mark Dewhirst, D.V.M., Ph.D., Associate Dean for Faculty Mentoring, to judge the posters on Friday evening. The winner of the best poster was Shahid Nimjee, M.D., a neurosurgery resident, whose poster was titled, "Rapidly Regulating Platelet Activity In Vivo with an Antidote Controlled Platelet Inhibitor." Poster runners up were medicine residents Callie Coombs, M.D. and Ann Marie Navar-Boggan, M.D.
Shannon O'Connor, a third year M.D./Ph.D. student, said she enjoyed viewing the posters, as well as the chance to be re-exposed to the clinical side of medicine. "I appreciated hearing people exchange ideas between departments, and learn about new ways people can help each other."
Koontz agreed. "The cross pollination of ideas was wonderful, but I truly appreciate that those of us passionate about research are able to share our passion more broadly, and be recognized by the Duke community. To me, this culture of curiosity and continuous improvement of the clinical sciences is what sets Duke apart."
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Innovation in Nanotechnology
Steve Warwick and Ben Wiley talk about their copper nanowires startup, NanoForge, forged in a lab at Duke University.Published 1 year ago
Duke's Office of Biomedical Graduate Diversity
The Office of Biomedical Graduate Diversity works with talented minority graduate students as they pursue their doctoral degrees in basic science departments and programs at Duke University. In this video several of our students describe their research, their daily lives as graduate students, what it is like to live in Durham, and offer advice to students looking to pursue a graduate degree at Duke.Featured Graduate Students:
Cavin Ward-Caviness, Computational Biology Program, Elizabeth Hauser Laboratory
Larry Cumberbatch, Medical Physics Program, Calvin Howell Laboratory
Tamika John, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Georgia Tomaras Laboratory
Onica Washington, Department of Biochemistry, Lorena Beese Laboratory
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Study Shows California's Ecosystems and Economy Take Hit from Climate Change
A study by Duke University, the Environmental Defense Fund, and other entities suggests that a warmer California will likely be a drier California, making it harder for forests and rangelands and other ecosystems to develop as they have previously. The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions' Linwood Pendleton and his study co-author Rebecca Shaw were guests on an hour-long broadcast on the NPR affiliated radio program, Jefferson Exchange.Published 1 year ago
Not-So-Lanky Lizards
Duke Biologist Manuel Leal and his colleagues released pairs of lizards onto the small keys surrounding the Bahamas. The scientists are testing evolution, watching for signs of natural selection and the founder effect.Citation: "Founder Effects Persist Despite Adaptive Differentiation: A Field Experiment with Lizards." J.J. Kolbe, J.B. Losos, M. Leal, T.W. Schoener and D.A. Spiller. Science. Feb. 2012. DOI: 10.1126/science.1209566.
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Adam Wax: Early Cancer Detection with Coherence Imaging
http://spie.org/x13196.xmlFrom the BiOS Hot Topics session at SPIE Photonics West 2012. Adam Wax from Duke University gave this presentation titled "Early Cancer Detection with Coherence Imaging"
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Reducing Water Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water's priorities have been reducing nutrient pollution in important water bodies stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico as well as improving management of storm water pollution. Ellen Gilinsky, who was recently appointed to serve as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Water, gave a lecture at Duke discussing the EPA's efforts to reduce these pollutants from urban and agricultural sources.Published 1 year ago
Chron 2.0 Launches
Student engineers and developers discuss Chron 2.0's new features, the process behind its development, and the technology the site employs.Music: "The Winner Is" by Mychael Danna feat. Devotchka (from "Little Miss Sunshine" soundtrack)
Edited by Dennis Chao, Matthew Chase and Samantha Brooks
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Andrew Revkin: Which Comes First, Peak Everything or Peak Us?
Andrew Revkin, a prize-winning journalist and New York Times blogger, gave a lecture titled "Which Comes First, Peak Everything or Peak Us?" at Duke January 18. The event was co-sponsored by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the Sanford School of Public Policy, and the Nicholas School of the Environment.Published 1 year ago
2011 Connected Health Symposium: New Era of Debt Reduction Politics
Closing Panel: Health Care in the Tumultuous New Era of Debt Reduction Politics. A Special Symposium Discussion (Imperial)- Moderator: David Storto, President, Partners Continuing Care; President, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
- David Cutler, PhD, Otto Eckstein Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Alexander Hecht, JD, LLM, Deputy Director, Mintz Levin center for Health Law and Policy
- Andrew McCormick, Permanent Secretary for Health and Social Services, Northern Ireland
- Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA, Prof. of Medicine and Gregory and Jeremy Mario Prof. of Business Administration, Duke University; Associate Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University
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Weapon Size Matters to Male Spiders
Magnolia jumping spiders size each other up and sometimes bang heads, just like males of other species. Duke graduate student Cynthia Tedore says these behaviors aren't conscious or learned, but "they're following rules of some kind. I think of them more as robots."Published 1 year ago
Steps to a Healthy Heart
James W. Peterson, MD, of Duke Cardiology of Raleigh, talks about what cardiovascular disease is, its risks, and how to prevent it.Published 1 year ago
A Bad Night's Sleep: Sleep Disorders
Paul Peterson, MD, FACEP, of Duke Neurology of Raleigh, discusses sleep disorders including obstructive sleep apnea, related conditions, and treatments.Published 1 year ago
International Transportation Expert Speaks at Duke
Dan Sperling, known widely for his work in transportation, spoke at Duke University November 7 regarding California's adoption of a mix of policies, regulations and incentives that together provide a coherent and durable framework for transforming vehicles, fuels and mobility. The lecture was sponsored by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Center on Global Change and the Nicholas School of the Environment.Published 1 year ago
