FUTURA Issue
Table of Contents, Volume 22 (1), 2007
B.I.F. Internal
B.I.F. – das Jahr 2006
(B.I.F. – the year 2006)
Hermann Fröhlich
Science
Gatekeepers of science
Interview with Peter Stern, editor at Science magazine
Peter Stern looks back on 10 years of work as an editor of “Science”, on the development of publishing high-end science and the consequences of the recent incidents of fraud for publishing.
Citation: (2007) Gatekeepers of science. Interview with Peter Stern, editor at Science magazine. B.I.F. FUTURA 22(1), 14-18
Copyright: © Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”, which permits free, irrevocable and universal right on access to these contributions and allows the work to be used, reproduced, or disseminated in digital form, provided the original author or copyright holder and source are credited.
Reviews
Molecular basis of bacterial virulence and survival. Report on the Spetses Course 2006
Bärbel Raupach1, Mélanie Hamon2, Pascale Cossart2, Nadia Khelef2
1 Department of cellular Microbiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany;
2 Bacteria-Cell Interactions, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Large-scale genome comparisons have revealed that the genetic diversity of microbes – even within one species – is far greater than had been hitherto as assumed. The flexible part of their genome in particular, which is acquired by horizontal gene transfer mechanisms such as conjugation, transformation, transduction and mobile genetic elements, enables bacteria to inhabit a large variety of environments and hosts.
Citation: Raupach, B et al. (2007) Molecular basis of bacterial virulence and survival. Report on the Spetses Course 2006. B.I.F. FUTURA 22(1), 5-13
Copyright: © Bärbel Raupach, Mélanie Hamon, Pascale Cossart, Nadia Khelef. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”, which permits free, irrevocable and universal right on access to these contributions and allows the work to be used, reproduced, or disseminated in digital form, provided the original author or copyright holder and source are credited.
Research Articles of B.I.F. Fellows (Results)
In these final accounts, B.I.F. scholarship holders present a brief summary of the research results and publications of their PhD project.
160 co-regulators TIF2 and SRC1 control fibre type composition in skeletal muscle
Faisal Ali
Sac1 synchronizes growth and secretion in yeast cells
Frank Faulhammer
Cyclic nucleotide-gated channel 18 is essential for pollen tube growth
Sabine Frietsch
The human natural killer cell response to Plasmodium falciparum
Daniel Korbel
Domain communication in DNA topoisomerase II
Felix Mueller-Planitz
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New Projects
The Board of Trustees of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds meets 3 times annually to decide upon the allocation of PhD scholarships. On November 3-4, 2006, they discussed 48 applications – preselected from the original 139 applications sent to the Foundation. Once again, the limited resources available meant that a considerable number of convincing applications had to be turned down. The following 16 projects and scholarship holders were selected.
Functional analysis of Wt1 in urogenital ridge development
Roberto Bandiera
Centre Biochimie, INSERM U636, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice Cédex, France
High-throughput screening using microfluidic devices
Dave van Ditmarsch
Laboratoire de Biologie Chimique, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS), Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
New tasks for dynein
Hauke Drechsler
Biochemistry Center (BZH), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Investigating Dscam signalling
Maria-Luise Erfurth
Department of Neurobiology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA, USA
Understanding sensor–effector interactions of bacterial photoreceptors involved in c-di-GMP signalling
Julia Griese
Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research,
Heidelberg, Germany
Structural insights into the allosteric regulation mechanism of phosphodiesterase 5
Clemens Heikaus
Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Understanding the mechanism of HIV-1 restriction by TRIM5
Christina Helbig
Laboratory of Viral Replication, Pathogenesis and Immunity, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Bellinzona, Switzerland
Two-photon calcium imaging of network dynamics and plasticity in the cerebellar cortex in vivo
Benjamin Judkewitz
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, London, UK
Cellular mechanism to remove stalled polymerases from the transcribed gene
Eleni Karakasili
Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), Munich, Germany
Differential proteomics on the kinetochore in the first and second meiotic division
Jesse Lipp
Laboratory of Wolfgang Zachariae, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling neoblast differentiation in Planarians
Priscilla Lo
Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Functional characterization of a novel human CUL3-based E3 ubiquitin ligase in cell-cycle regulation
Sarah Märki
Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Making sense of little antisense: small non-coding RNAs in S. typhimurium
Kai Papenfort
Department of RNA Biology, Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
The effects of lipid bilayer properties on membrane protein function
Daniel Schmidt
Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Assembly and function of type III secretion systems
Oliver Schraidt
Laboratory of Design and Function of Molecular Machines, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria
Nuclear envelope targeting and functional analysis of mammalian SUN proteins
Yagmur Turgay
Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland