Carnegie Institution for Science13d
"It’s a Trap! Origin, emplacement and impact of the Deccan large igneous province"
Loÿc VanderKluysen, an assistant professor in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science at Drexel University, will give a talk titled "It’s a Trap! Origin, emplacement and impact ...
Carnegie Institution for Science12d
Steven McKnight, UT Southwestern, A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to protein
A new-found interest in the field of protein science has focused on the capacity of certain proteins to polymerize into labile, cross- fibrils. Formation of labile polymers has been observed for ...
Carnegie Institution for Science13d
Dynamics Behind Continental Tectonics, from Ancient Cratons to Recent Intraplate Volcanism
Lijun Liu, of the University of Illinois, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on May 10, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, and a light ...
Carnegie Institution for Science14d
From the dust particles to tectonic plates: New views from high-resolution paleomagnetism
Magnetic fields are thought to govern the lifetime of protoplanetary disks by mediating the inward accretion of gas. At finer scales, magnetic instabilities may have led to turbulent eddies where the ...
Carnegie Institution for Science12d
Complex Multi-Stage Magmatic System Revealed Under Geothermal Prospect in the Main Ethiopian Rift
Friedemann Samrock, of ETH Zürich, will present his lecture at 2 p.m. EDT on Dec. 7, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
Carnegie Institution for Science11d
"Magma pathways and earthquake triggering: Insights from satellite radar observations"
Christelle Wauthier, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, will give a talk titled "Magma pathways and earthquake triggering: Insights from satellite radar observations" at 2 p.m.
Carnegie Institution for Science13d
Establishing a New SIMS Paradigm with NAUTILUS: Application to the Oklo Natural Reactor
Evan Groopman, from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on September 13, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, ...
Carnegie Institution for Science11d
Stellar UV Light and the Origins of Life's Building Blocks
Dimitar D. Sasselov, from Harvard University, will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before ...
Carnegie Institution for Science11d
"Pointing the Telescope Down: Seismo-vision into the Earth"
Lara Wagner, staff scientist at DTM, will give a talk* titled "Pointing the Telescope Down: Seismo-vision into the Earth" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 20, 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as ...
Carnegie Institution for Science14d
Dan Cosgrove, Penn State, Rethinking the architecture of growing cell walls and the mechanisms of cell wall loosening
Abstract: For two decades the major model of primary cell walls hypothesizes that xyloglucan binds to cellulose microfibril surfaces, coating them and tethering adjacent microfibrils into a strong yet ...
Carnegie Institution for Science2d
Hubble's Famous M31 VAR! plate
On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
Carnegie Institution for Science3d
Round Table Seminar: On Sun Lau, Bergmann Lab - Stanford University, Direct roles of SPEECHLESS in the specification of stomatal self-renewing cells.
Lineage-specific stem cells are critical for the production and maintenance of specific cell types and tissues in multicellular organisms. In Arabidopsis, the initiation and proliferation of stomatal ...