HHMI Bulletin May 2012


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	Critical Thinking Though HHMI’s efforts to improve the training of STEM teachers and students are modest in the big picture, we hope the work becomes an amplifying mechanism.






	JO HANDELSMAN: Engage to Excel How to keep STEM students from jumping ship?

	STEPHEN QUAKE: Innovative Thinking on Genetic Tests Monitoring health and disease with next-generation sequencing.

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			Snakes in Cyberspace Jeremy Weaver combines his computer skills with his snake smarts to develop reference apps for the iPhone. More


			Hungry for Pleasure, Hungry for Food Our drive to eat can be based on physical hunger or desire. The two aren’t as separate as once thought. More


			An Artist’s Eye While many scientists grew up obsessed with microscope kits or bug collections, Tirin Moore stretched his mind in a different way―pouring himself into cartooning and filmmaking. More


			Tiny Breathing Plant Mouths Keiko Torii is piecing together how stomata control plant respiration. More


			Accidental Weatherman Raúl Padrón has become the accidental instigator of a network of weather stations and lightning detectors in Venezuela that have saved his own equipment and filled in the gaps of existing forecasting systems in the region. More


			Sticky-Fingered Culprit Researchers are discovering how the blood’s wound-healing platelets have a hand in metastasis as well. More


			A Posse on the Loose The ten students who entered Brandeis University four years ago as an innovative experiment in science education are graduating. More

			2012 Gilliam Fellows Announced HHMI has selected nine students to receive the 2012 Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study. More


			Better Than a Straitjacket Immobilizing Caenorhabditis elegans for high-resolution imaging. More


			Wyszynski Joins HHMI as Vice President for Human Resources This past January, Kathy Wyszynski joined HHMI as an officer in the recently created position of vice president of human resources. More


			Reduce and Recycle Exercise prompts cells to turn unwanted proteins and cellular junk into energy. More


			Institute Launches New Investigator Competition HHMI initiated an open competition in March aimed at appointing 20 to 30 new investigators. More


			Locating a Genetic Glitch International team finds gene responsible for rare movement disorder. More


			eLife Announces Editors, Launches Website The editorial board of eLife, the new journal for life and biomedical science, announced the names of the more than 150 reviewing editors who will help deliver on the initiative’s commitment to change peer review. More


			Fighting Fluoride Riboswitch helps bacteria toss out toxic fluoride. More

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