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In the News (Thu 17 Dec 09)

  
  Yale Biophysicist Thomas Steitz Receives Gairdner Award for Medical Research
Yale Biophysicist Thomas Steitz Receives Gairdner Award for Medical Research
Thomas A. Steitz led research on ribosome structure and function.
New Haven, Conn. — Yale biophysicist Thomas A. Steitz has received one of the four 2007 Gairdner International Awards, among the most prestigious awards in science, for his groundbreaking work on the structure and function of the large subunit of the ribosome and the structural basis for the action of antibiotics that target the ribosome.
www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/07-04-25-04.all.html   (669 words)

  
  College Search, College Resources, Career Information :: Schools in the USA
Biophysicists who work as professors teach undergraduate and graduate university courses and supervise and guide the work of technical staff and graduate students.
Biophysicists involved in research, or research and development may become project supervisors, directors of research laboratories or managers of research departments.
Biophysicists who wish to do original research generally need to obtain a PhD and spend one to five years in post-doctoral research in a university or government laboratory.
www.schoolsintheusa.com /careerprofiles_details.cfm?carid=351   (888 words)

  
 David Walker sued for curing cancer
Since he is a biophysicist and had healed himself (after undergoing chemo, etc. which made him very sick and didn't help at all), he had credibility.
When one of the ladies he had healed of breast cancer told her oncologist about it, the doctor, incensed at his loss of a $350,000 patient, reported the biophysicist to the FTC.
Thanks to his training as a biophysicist, he was able to decipher a biochemical riddle that enabled him to cure himself.
www.alternative-doctor.com /cancer/walker.htm   (2241 words)

  
 Biophysics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biophysics, in contrast, typically addresses similar biological questions, but the questions are asked at a molecular level.
By drawing knowledge and experimental techniques from a wide variety of disciplines (as described below), biophysicists are able to indirectly observe or model the structures and interactions of individual molecules or complexes of molecules.
In addition to things like solving a protein structure or measuring the kinetics of single molecule interactions, biophysics is also understood to encompass research areas that apply models and experimental techniques derived from physics (e.g.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biophysics   (896 words)

  
 Johann Deisenhofer Summary
Biochemist and biophysicist Johann Deisenhofer (born 1943) devised a way to use X-ray technology to map the chemical reactions central to plant photosynthesis, earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1988.
In 1979 Huber and his laboratory associates were joined by German biophysicist Hartmut Michel, who was engaged in the ongoing study of photosynthesis in the hopes of finding a way to obtain a thorough analysis of the molecules involved in the complex chemical-reaction process.
Even in the late twentieth century, the detailed process of photosynthesis remained a mystery to scientists, although it was known that an understanding of the structure of the proteins present in cell membranes would be the key to understanding the photosynthetic light-chemical energy transfer.
www.bookrags.com /Johann_Deisenhofer   (2643 words)

  
 Biological scientists
Biophysicists study the application of principles of physics, such as electrical and mechanical energy and related phenomena, to living cells and organisms.
Median annual earnings of biochemists and biophysicists were $68,950 in May 2004.
Median annual earnings of biochemists and biophysicists employed in scientific research and development services were $73,900 in May 2004.
stats.bls.gov /oco/ocos047.htm   (3160 words)

  
 UB biophysicist receives $2.7 million Jacob Javits award to continue distinguished research in neuroscience
Anthony Auerbach, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo biophysicist, has been selected to receive a Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award totaling $2.7 million over seven years from the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), an arm of the National Institutes of Health.
Auerbach, a UB professor of physiology and biophysics, has conducted highly regarded research in cell communication and synapses for 12 years.
Auerbach also holds a separate $947,000 NIH grant to study a different receptor protein, and is a co-investigator on a $1,925,000 NIH grant and a $1 million award from the Keck Foundation for the analysis of ion channels and the development of analysis software.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2000-08/UaB-Ubrm-0208100.php   (499 words)

  
 Mastering mysteries of molecular machines: Gary K. Ackers, Ph.D., biophysicist and banjo picker, leads field in study ...
Gary K. Ackers, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, and his wife, Jo M. Holt, Ph.D., research assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, examine a model of hemoglobin in their new laboratory space in the medical school's South Building.
Gary K. Ackers, Ph.D., biophysicist and banjo picker, is now a professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine.
The department needed an infusion of molecular biophysicists, however, said Carl Frieden, Ph.D., the Alumni Professor and interim head of biochemistry and molecular biophysics.
record.wustl.edu /archive/1999/09-02-99/people.html   (1515 words)

  
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 William Siri; biophysicist who scaled world's peaks; 85 | The San Diego Union-Tribune
William Siri; biophysicist who scaled world's peaks; 85
William Siri, a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who helped lead the first U.S. expedition to reach Mount Everest's summit, has died at age 85.
Siri is survived by two daughters and two grandchildren.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040907/news_1m7siri.html   (368 words)

  
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 Tennessee Today - Leading Biophysicist Named First UT-ORNL Governor's Chair
KNOXVILLE -- Biophysicist Jeremy Smith, an internationally-recognized leader in his field, has been named the first University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor's Chair.
Smith's selection was announced jointly on Wednesday by Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen and University of Tennessee President John Petersen.
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www.tennessee.edu /news/article.php?id=3692   (860 words)

  
 Biophysicist and a nanotechnologist recruited: News from Farfield Scientific   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Biophysicist and a nanotechnologist recruited: News from Farfield Scientific
Following recent expansion into its new premises, Farfield is to recruit a Biophysicist and a Nanotechnologist.
Both positions offer unique opportunities for the right individual to operate at the very frontiers of molecular research in one of the most exciting markets of the 21st Century.
www.manufacturingtalk.com /news/faf/faf117.html   (170 words)

  
 First cell - biophysicist David Deamer believes that protective cells predated the first DNA Discover - Find Articles
First cell - biophysicist David Deamer believes that protective cells predated the first DNA
Deamer is a hard-core biophysicist, but still there is a monkish quality to him.
It comes not just from his unnervingly gentle manner of speaking but from his entire approach to science.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n11_v16/ai_17643249   (987 words)

  
 interview with Heinz von foerster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In academia you appoint somebody and then in order to give him a name he must be a historian, a physicist, a chemist, a biologist, a biophysicist; he has to have a name.
Now he has to live up to that label and push away everything that is not biophysics; otherwise people will doubt that he is a biophysicist.
If he's talking to somebody about astronomy, they will say "I don't know, you are not talking about your area of competence, you're talking about astronomy, and there is the department of astronomy, those are the people over there," and things of that sort.
www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/4-2/text/interviewvonf.html   (9075 words)

  
 biophysicist - OneLook Dictionary Search
We found 6 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word biophysicist:
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "biophysicist" is defined.
biophysicist : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?w=biophysicist   (88 words)

  
 HIV/AIDS Debate Documentary Video
A segment from a satellite presentation at Geneva World AIDS conference 6/98 of Biophysist Eleni Eleopulos, Dr. Val Turner, M.D. of the Royal Perth Hospital and colleagues of the Perth Group explaining their fundamental questions about HIV's isolation / existence/ testing.
Biophysicist Eleni Eleopulos states her view that an "There is no proof that an antibody test proves HIV infection." (With use of "antibody test" Prof.
Virologist Dr. Stefan Lanka underneath the UNAIDS sign at Geneva World AIDS conference 6/98 describing the thoroughness of Biophysicist Eleni Eleopulos and the Perth Group of Scientists and Physicians "analysis and conclusion that HIV has not been isolated and how the 'HIV tests' do not prove the presence of HIV".
www.reclaimthebrain.com   (1352 words)

  
 FW: PostDoc position biophysicist Saclay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
From: LLB-Orphee (CEA-CNRS) [mailto:menl at llb.saclay.cea.fr] LLB (CEA-CNRS) : VACANCY PHYSICIST / BIOPHYSICIST The Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB) is the French national neutron scattering centers, it operates the 14 MW reactor Orphée supplying neutrons to 25 scattering instruments.
It operates more than 400 experiments per year and is supported by the European community under the Human Potential Research Infractstructures project (HPRI).
The LLB is opening a one-year (two years) post-doctoral position on neutron spin-echo and Time-of-flight spectrometers for an experimental Physicist or a Biophysicist.
www.neutron.anl.gov /pipermail/neutron/2002/000663.html   (236 words)

  
 Roderick MacKinnon - Biophysicist and the Ion Channel
Roderick MacKinnon - Biophysicist and the Ion Channel
Roderick MacKinnon was born in 1956 in Burlington, Massachusetts, a town northwest of metropolitan Boston.
He had met with Torsten Wiesel, then the president of Rockefeller, and the two scientists discussed MacKinnon's idea of using X-ray crystallography to attempt to define the structure of the ion channel.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/biographies_scientists/109849   (492 words)

  
 Brookhaven lab biophysicist F. William Studier wins R&D 100 award
Brookhaven lab biophysicist F. William Studier wins R&D 100 award
Upton, NY — F. William Studier, a biophysicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has won a 2004 R&D 100 award for developing a new process that simplifies the production of proteins in the widely used T7 gene expression system.
The T7 expression system, developed and patented at Brookhaven Lab in the 1980s and 1990s, is used worldwide by academia and industry to produce specific proteins within bacterial cells.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-07/dnl-blb072804.php   (602 words)

  
 PostdocJobs.com - Biophysicist Postdoc Fellow - Genomics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A leader in science and engineering research for more than 75 years, LBNL is the oldest of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratories.
The Physical Biosciences Division of LBNL has an immediate opportunity for a Biophysicist Postdoc Fellow to be a part of the Department of Energy (DOE) Genomics: GTL (GTL) project.
The GTL research program focuses on developing technologies to understand and use the diverse capabilities of plants and microbes for innovative solutions to the DOE energy and environmental mission challenges.
www.postdocjobs.com /jobs/304672.shtml   (368 words)

  
 A masterly play - icecube’s keep
experimental biophysicist 1: I have an idea; why don't you poke it and see if it jiggles?
[Experimental biophysicist 2 pokes it to see if it jiggles, and it does!]
[The experimental biophysicists are so delighted they start making horse-like whinnying noises and flapping their hands about in celebration.]
www.maths.tcd.ie /~icecube/2004/10/a-masterly-play   (85 words)

  
 Urine/Saliva pH Testing: Another Gimmick to Sell You Something
Martin claimed that nutripathic tests could detect "imbalances which, if left to mature, must ultimately manifest as some form of disease process." and "discover the root cause of the disease while it is still in the prediagnosable stage."
The most notable of these tests was the urine/saliva test developed about more than 50 years ago by Cary Reams, a self-proclaimed biophysicist who was prosecuted during the 1970s for practicing medicine without a license.
Reams, who also claimed to be guided by God, devised "a mathematical formula for perfect health, based on the biophysical frequencies of living matter." The formula, which Martin called "your Nutripathic Portrait," looks like this:
www.quackwatch.org /01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/reams.html   (879 words)

  
 PayScale - Biochemist or Biophysicist Salary, Average Salaries
PayScale - Biochemist or Biophysicist Salary, Average Salaries
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www.payscale.com /salary-survey/vid-16151/fid-7217   (300 words)

  
 Biophysicist wins presidential early career award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 11, 2000 -- Xian Chen of the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has received the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award from the National Science and Technology Council, a cabinet-level agency that coordinates federal research and development in science, technology and space.
Chen, a biophysicist in Los Alamos' Chemical Science and Technology Division, and fellow award winners from other participating federal agencies will be recognized during a White House ceremony.
The Presidential Early Career Award is the highest honor given to young scientists and engineers by the U.S. government.
www.lanl.gov /worldview/news/releases/archive/00-050.shtml   (641 words)

  
 Daniel Barsky, the biophysicist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
An all new home page should be coming soon...
I'm a biophysicist in the new division of Computational & Systems Biology within the Biosciences Directorate at LLNL.
In my work I pursue the structure and dynamics of biomolecules, mainly DNA and proteins.
compbio.llnl.gov /barsky   (155 words)

  
 Summary Report
May determine the effects of foods, drugs, serums, hormones, and other substances on tissues and vital processes of living organisms.
The occupation code you requested, 19-1021.02 (Biophysicists), is no longer in use.
In the future, please use 19-1021.00 (Biochemists and Biophysicists) instead.
online.onetcenter.org /link/summary/19-1021.02   (1431 words)

  
 The Scientist : People: Oregon Biophysicist Becomes State's First Howard Hughes Medical Investigator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Scientist : People: Oregon Biophysicist Becomes State's First Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
People: Oregon Biophysicist Becomes State's First Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
Brian Matthews, professor of physics at the University of Oregon and director of the university's Institute of Molecular Physics, has been appointed to a seven-year term as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
www.the-scientist.com /article/display/9967   (374 words)

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