Doing Science: Chairing sessions

Doing science making art

It is a challenge to balance doing both science and art, but I attempt both because each provides unique insight into perception and cognition, often to mutual benefit. The techniques I use in visual neuroscience (psychophysics, fMRI, microelectrode recording) are different from those I use in visual art (etching, watercolor and oil paint, glass and silk), but the process is always empirical, t...

Doing Science in Uncertain Times

A scientist living in Russia is often asked two questions: “Why haven’t you left?” and “Is it still possible to work there?” The best response to the fi rst question is, “Why should I?”—which either terminates the conversation or leads to a stimulating discussion about the fate of the world. The second question, however, deserves a serious answer. In fact, this is the question that every one of...

Reciprocation Sessions on Meat Science 726

We showed previously that vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) increases prolactin (PRL) gene expression and secretion in turkey primary pituitary cells. We have now used 5’flanking deletions and mutations of the turkey PRL promoter fused to the luciferase (Luc) reporter gene in transient transfection assays to further characterize sequences involved in stimulation of PRL gene expression by VIP....

Eight personal rules for doing science.

State of the Science Oral and Poster Sessions, October 2007

AANA Journal/October 2007/Vol. 75, No. 5 357 DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in these abstracts are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Departments of the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Public Health Service; the Department of Defense; or the US Government. A1 Blunting the sympathetic response to laryngoscopy during the induction of anesthesia Maria McCusk...