The cyanobacterium Anabaenacan carry out oxygenic photosynthesis and the fixation of nitrogen at the same time. It executes these two incompatible processes simultaneously by differentiating specialized cells for nitrogen fixation. These cells, called heterocysts, are spaced at regular intervals along the 100-200-cell filaments. In the...
Senior and New Scholars Awards for University of Chicago
Dr. Robert Haselkorn
University of Chicago
2010 senior Scholar Award in aging
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Dr. Bruce Lahn
University of Chicago
2010 senior Scholar Award in aging
The hallmark of multicellular life is the presence, within a single organism, of a wide array of cell types possessing the same genome but disparate cellular phenotypes. A fundamental question in biology is: what maintains the phenotypic identities of different cell types? We recently postulated a ìgene occlusionî model as a means by which...
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Dr. Edwin Ferguson
University of Chicago
2007 senior Scholar Award in aging
The continued replenishment of many tissues in the body, such as the skin, intestine and blood, depends on adult stem cells. When an adult stem cell divides, it produces one cell like itself and one cell that differentiates to perform a specialized function. While this pattern of division should ensure a continued supply of differentiated... |
Dr. James Holaska
University of Chicago
2009 new Scholar Award in aging
Mutations in the broadly expressed nuclear envelope proteins emerin and lamin A cause a wide spectrum of both overlapping and distinct phenotypes. These diseases, collectively called laminopathies, cause progressive skeletal muscle wasting, life-threatening irregular heart rhythms, contractures of major tendons, abnormal fat deposition and...
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Dr. Sangram S. Sisodia
University of Chicago
2000 senior Scholar Award in aging
The elderly are the most rapidly growing segment of the population, and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia in this age group. Cognitive decline, memory impairments and decline in verbal episodic memory, the earliest signs of incipient Alzheimer's disease (AD), are the result of disruptions of neural circuits and... |
Non-Scholar Awards for University of Chicago
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2008 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $8,500 to support the session on ìRecQ Functions in Cancer and Agingî at the Bloomís Syndrome Workshop: Control of Recombination in Genome Integrity, held May 27-28th, 2008 at The University of Chicago Gleacher Center, Chicago, IL. For further information, see:...
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