HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012: Chronicle

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	Teaching Genomics, Plainly

	2012 Holiday Lectures on Science—Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future

	HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges

	Fifty International Students Get Support from HHMI

	Medical Fellows Get a Chance to Try Research

	The Yin and Yang of Plant Defense

	Like a Chinese Finger Trap

	Wiring the Brain

	In Living Color

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		Teaching Genomics, Plainly Through a semester, students searched databases of gene sequences, engineered bacteria to shuttle mutated genes into cells, and captured images of how those cells reacted to the alterations More


2012 Holiday Lectures on Science—Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future Three leading scientists will explore the history of life on Earth and the forces that have shaped our ever-changing planet. More					In Living Color Researchers watch a heart grow, one vibrant cell at a time. More


HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges The 47 selected schools are expected to be incubators of new ideas. More Fifty International Students Get Support from HHMI The Institute awarded more than $2 million in fellowships to 50 promising graduate students from 19 countries. More					Medical Fellows Get a Chance to Try Research The students, who came from 27 schools across the country, are part of a $2.5 million annual initiative to increase the training of future physician-scientists. More


The Yin and Yang of Plant Defense A plant’s response to infection is controlled by a concentration gradient of salicyclic acid. More Like a Chinese Finger Trap Scientists zero in on disease-causing amyloid structure. More					Wiring the Brain Development in some parts of the brain is controlled by neural activity rather than experience. More

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