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My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
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Category: Chronobiology
If you ever glanced at the circadian literature, you have probably encountered the statement that "circadian rhythms are ubiquitous in living systems". In all of my formal and informal writing I qualified that statement somewhat, stating something along the lines...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:41 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Microorganisms
New microbiology aggregator just went live in Belgrade, built (as always) by Vedran Vucic....
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Category: Fun
You may have heard the story that Scarlett Johansson had a cold when she appeared on Jay Leno's show the other day. And you may have heard that she got the cold from her 'The Spirit' co-star Samuel L. Jackson....
Posted by Coturnix at 8:44 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Science News
On Tuesday night, when I posted my personal picks from this week's crop of articles published in PLoS ONE, I omitted (due to a technical glitch on the site), to point out that a blog-friend of mine John Logsdon published...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:23 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Framing Science
Ha! Made you look! Which is exactly the point! Go and add your own ideas in the comments there.......
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Category: Microorganisms
It takes 38 minutes for the E.coli genome to replicate. Yet, E.coli can bo coaxed to divide in a much shorter time: 20 minutes. How is this possible? Larry poses the riddle and provides the solution. The key is that...
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Category: Microorganisms
Considering this I am kinda baffled by this. There is tons of microbial metagenomics and genomics in PLoS journals....
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Category: Microorganisms
Brendan Bohannan, Richard W. Castenholz, Jessica Green and their students and postdcos at the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Oregon are currently doing a Journal Club on the PLoS ONE article The Sorcerer II Global Ocean...
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Category: Science Education
My friend Franz, who runs a delightful blog Mikrob(io)log (in Slovenian) alerted me that the team of undergraduates from the University of Ljubljana won the iGEM 2007 at MIT the other day. They did it for the second year in...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:31 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: PLoS
Journal Clubs are a popular feature on PLoS ONE papers. There were several of them in the spring. Now, after a brief summer break, the Journal Clubs are going live again and they will happen on a regular basis, perhaps...
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