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HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
John Carey |
Sydney Brenner: Model of Success At the famously innovative Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, Sydney Brenner made his mark. Today, Brenner spends part of his year at Janelia, as a senior resident fellow.   |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Jim Keeley |
Getting Back to the Bench All Janelia Farm group leaders, fellows, and junior fellows actively engage in research. They work to discover the basic rules and mechanisms of the brain's information-processing systems and developing biological and computational techniques for creating and interpreting biological images. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Mitch Leslie |
Creating Internal Maps Combining complementary skills, a team of neuroscientists studies how flies navigate their surroundings. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
DIADEM Contest Moves Neuromapping in the Right Direction In September, DIADEM -- short for Digital Reconstruction of Axonal and Dendritic Morphology -- came to a close, with a tournament-style conclusion between five final teams taking place at HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Jennifer Michalowski |
Enter the Samurai Unlike many scientists, Loren Looger doesn't frame his work around a central question. Instead, he has constructed a research program that branches into a broad range of biological investigations. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
Moore Named HHMI's First Chief Operating Officer Moore, 44, is the first person to hold the position and assumed her new responsibilities in September. She will lead collaborative strategic efforts for HHMI and oversee operational functions of the organization. |
Bio-IT World
October 2006
Kevin Davies |
Marshall's IT Plan for Janelia Farm One would expect the new VP of IT to call Janelia Farm the most exciting project he has ever participated in. But coming from the man who oversaw the impressive IT infrastructure to assemble the human genome at Celera Genomics six years ago, that is particularly noteworthy. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Kathryn Brown |
Mosaic Mendel Neurobiologist Julie Simpson and her partner Frank Midgley, a scientific computing expert at Janelia Farm, have created a one-of-a-kind art exhibit, "MacOSaiX Scientific Heroes." |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Jennifer Michalowski |
Good Stewards Larry Mendoza is president of the Virginia Herpetological Society and a co-founder of Janelia's Nature Club, through which he gathers crews for a series of herpetological surveys of the Janelia Farm grounds. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Virginia Hughes |
Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Sarah Goforth |
Something's Brewing Making beer is half art and half science, says Jasper Akerboom, so it's the perfect diversion for a restless researcher. In the lab of biochemist Loren Looger, Akerboom's day job entails creating and testing molecular probes that help visualize how neurons work in the brain. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
Tekla S. Perry |
Dream Jobs 2011: Insect Imagineer Gus Lott designs virtual reality systems for bugs and rats so that we can study their brains -- and ours |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Sink or Swim A dozen Janelia Farm scientists and staff gathered at a remote corner of the 689-acre campus to set their handcrafted amphibious vehicle on its maiden voyage. They needed to know if it was ready for the annual Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore, Maryland. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
R. John Davenport |
Hanchuan Peng: SmartScopes Even when he launched his career as an engineer and computer scientist, Hanchuan Peng was drawn to the beauty of biology. He is a leader in developing sophisticated ways to make sense of biological images. |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Lisa Chiu |
Beautiful Beasts Igor Siwanowicz is a scientist and photographer who captures his insect subjects in extreme close-up with a digital camera and creates haunting, fluorescent images of others with a confocal microscope. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Kevin Davies |
Hughes Offers a Helping Hand Under the assured leadership of Nobel Laureate Tom Cech, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is increasingly applying its considerable resources to foster imaginative, interdisciplinary biomedical research and education. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Madeline Drexler |
The Indispensables Every research lab has behind-the-scenes specialists without whom modern science could not get done. Here are the stories of five indispensable lab team members, among many acknowledged by grateful HHMI investigators. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012 |
Medical Fellows Get a Chance to Try Research This past summer, 70 medical, dental, and veterinary students put their courses and rotations on hold to focus on laboratory research. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012
Paul Muhlrad |
Changing Channels Appetite and other deep-seated desires could be modified by altering brain ion channels, according to research at Janelia Farm. |
