July 8, 2009
This February 06, 2005 post describes the basic elements of the circadian system in mammals.
The principal mammalian circadian pacemaker is located in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus. The general area was first discovered in 1948 by Curt Richter who systematically lesioned a…
July 7, 2009
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
- Golo Mann
July 7, 2009
There have been 19 new articles Monday night and 11 new articles Tuesday night in PLoS ONE. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley,…
July 7, 2009
If you really read this blog 'for the articles', you know some of my recurrent themes, e.g., that almost every biological function exhibits cycles and that almost every cell in every organism contains a more-or-less functioning clock. Here is a new paper that combines both of those themes very…
July 7, 2009
I gave a talk about Open Access at the University Library in Belgrade yesterday (listen to the audio here and see some pictures here).
I was just on TV a couple of hours ago, on Studio B - I talk fast so I had time to promote PLoS, Open Access, blogs and tomorrow's lecture at Oncology Center at the…
July 7, 2009
As you may have noticed, I am quite fascinated with the earliest beginnings of my scientific discipline, which was almost entirely involving research on plants. The most famous story from that early period is the construction of a Flower Clock by Karl Linne, the father of taxonomy.
So, of course I…
July 7, 2009
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Katherine Haxton of the…
July 7, 2009
This post from February 03, 2005 covers the basic concepts and terms on entrainment. This is also the only blog post to date that I am aware of that was cited in a scientific paper.
Let's now continue our series of Clock Tutorials with an introduction to some phenomena (and related terms and…
July 7, 2009
On the way back from the Mainau island to Lindau island, we were entertained on the ship by a balloon magician. He started out with balloon molecules. Kind of a nifty way to demonstrate why you can write with graphite and not with a diamond.
I am not sure the magician was aware that Dr.Kroto was…
July 6, 2009
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
- Gladys Taber
July 6, 2009
You probably realize by now that my expertise is in clocks and calendars of birds, but blogging audience forces me to occasionally look into human clocks from a medical perspective. Reprinted below the fold are three old Circadiana posts about the connection between circadian clocks and the…
July 6, 2009
Ashutosh Jogalekar wrote the best summary of the panel on Climate Change held on the island of Mainau on the last day of the Lindau Nobel Meeting:
July 6, 2009
Scientia Pro Publica #7 is up on Greg Laden's blog
Carnival of the Green #187 is up on Plant a Tree USAâ¢
Carnival of the Liberals #94 is up on Submitted To A Candid World
July 6, 2009
A couple of German bloggers and I went to see the Butterfly House on the Island of Mainau. They had good cameras with lenses that allowed them to take extreme close-ups. I had to do with a little pocket camera, but a few pictures turned out decent enough to show:
July 6, 2009
Here are some more pictures from the domestic and wild animal life on the island:
July 6, 2009
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Miriam Goldstein of the…
July 6, 2009
I wrote this post back on February 02, 2005 in order to drive home the point that the circadian clock is not a single organ, but an organ system comprised of all cells in the body linked in a hierarchical manner:
In the earliest days of chronobiology, the notion of circadian organization was…
July 5, 2009
A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Jennifer Murphy from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA
July 5, 2009
Once upon a time a man dragged his father from their house and as they reached a tree his father cried Stop! I did not drag my own father past this tree!
- Gertrude Stein
July 5, 2009
A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Ghada Al-Kadamany from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany
July 5, 2009
As we mentioned just the other day, studying animal behavior is tough as "animals do whatever they darned please". Thus, making sure that everything is controlled for in an experimental setup is of paramount importance. Furthermore, for the studies to be replicable in other labs, it is always a…
July 5, 2009
A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Jan Wedekind, formerly of University of Barcelona, Spain, and now with IRIS:
July 5, 2009
As I was traveling, I only briefly mentioned the brand new and exciting paleontology paper in PLoS ONE - New Mid-Cretaceous (Latest Albian) Dinosaurs from Winton, Queensland, Australia that was published on Thursday. Bex has written an introduction and will post a Media/Blog coverage (of which…
July 5, 2009
The island of Mainau has been designed, decades ago, as a gigantic garden, natural preserve, and a model of sustainability. Thus, animals roaming the island are exceptionally fearless of humans. For this picture, taken during lunch on the island, all I needed to do was extend my camera-hand, while…
July 5, 2009
A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Fenja Schoepke of RWTH Aachen, Germany.
July 5, 2009
Berry-Go-Round #18 is up on Foothills Fancies
Friday Ark #250 is up on Modulator
July 5, 2009
Friday was a special day at the Lindau Nobel conference. The official program was over but, instead of letting us all go home, the organizers did something better - a day trip on a boat to the island of Mainau where, while still under the influence of the proceedings, the participants had a chance…
July 5, 2009
I wrote this post back on January 23, 2005. It explains how clock biologists think and how they design their experiments:
So, are you ready to do chronobiological research? If so, here are some of the tips - the thought process that goes into starting one's research in chronobiology.
First, you…
July 4, 2009
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
- Geri Weitzman
July 4, 2009
A brief interview with one of the young people attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Anna-Maria Huber from the Lindau high school:
