Home About Press Employ Contact Spyglass Advanced Search
HHMI Logo
HHMI News
HHMI News
Scientists & Research
Scientists & Research
Janelia Farm
Janelia Farm
Grants & Fellowships
Grants & Fellowships
Resources
Resources
HHMI Bulletin
Currrent Issue Subscribe
Back Issues About the Bulletin
November '06
Features
divider
Cech
divider
UpFront
divider
Chronicle
divider
Janelia Farm — Open For Discovery
divider

A New Scientific
Communitysmall arrow


divider

Let The Science Beginsmall arrow

divider
Institute News
divider

Briggs and McCleskey
Join Institutesmall arrow


divider
Science Education
divider

Expanding Her Horizonssmall arrow

divider

The FARM Project:
A Summer Science Workshopsmall arrow


divider
Lab Book
divider

A Sweet Solution to a
Sticky Problemsmall arrow


divider

Sugar Code-Busterssmall arrow

divider

Monkey Feel, Monkey Dosmall arrow

divider
Perspectives
divider
Editor

Subscribe Free
Sign up now and receive the HHMI Bulletin by mail free.small arrow

CHRONICLE
divider
Janelia Farm — Open For Discovery
divider
A New Scientific Community A New Scientific Community

A weeklong celebration of HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus began with a gala dinner and concluded with tours for the public. Moresmall arrow
dividers
Institute News
dividers

Briggs and McCleskey Join Institute
HHMI has appointed researcher and physician Josephine P. Briggs as senior scientific officer and neuroscientist Edwin W. McCleskey as scientific officer. Moresmall arrow

Let The Science Begin dividers

Let The Science Begin
After six years and "hundreds and hundreds" of drawings, Janelia Farm design wizard Robert H. McGhee can finally allow himself a moment of satisfaction. Moresmall arrow

divider
Science Education
divider
Expanding Her Horizons
An aspiring physician-scientist leaves the reservation and goes east to the Ivy Leagues—for herself and the folks back home. Moresmall arrow

The FARM Project:
A Summer Science Workshop

For a week in July, 19 middle school students from Durham, North Carolina; Rochester, New York; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Cincinnati, Ohio, gathered at Duke University to participate in the HHMI-sponsored FARM (Finding and Researching Mycoacrobacteriophages) program. Moresmall arrow

divider
Lab Book
divider
A Sweet Solution to a Sticky Problem
Alzheimer's disease may one day be treatable by drugs based on a sugar already present in the human body. Moresmall arrow

Sugar Code-Busters
The sulfate groups that adorn sugar chains on cell surfaces appear to have functions both workaday and profound. Moresmall arrow

Monkey Feel, Monkey Do
Sensory perception involves not just one but many areas of the brain. Moresmall arrow

HHMI Logo

Home | About HHMI | Press Room | Employment | Contact

© 2012 Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A philanthropy serving society through biomedical research and science education.
4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789 | (301) 215-8500 | e-mail: webmaster@hhmi.org