Leaving the lab

Leaving the lab: career development for developmental biologists.

Let's face it: not all PhD students and postdocs will become lab heads. Every few years, the National Science Foundation surveys doctorate recipients in the USA about their career progression, and their latest published data (collected in 2006) show that only about one quarter of biomedical science PhDs held tenured or tenure-track positions (see Box 1). If graduate and postdoctoral training ar...

Internet-integrated Building Control: Leaving the Lab – Robust, Scalable and Secure

Based on an analysis of the heterogeneous systems for interconnecting distributed infrastructural devices, such as low-bandwidth sensor/actuator-networks and the research prototype experience, the paper describes a productionlevel implementation of an integrating architecture for accessing various infranets via intranets and the Internet as well as telecommunication networks. Its modularity all...

Leaving the Past Behind

There is considerable interest from the wider scientific community in the heritability of epigenetic states across generations, and this has arisen as a result of a series of studies in mice [1,2], flies [3], plants [4,5], and yeast [6] over the past decade. These studies have identified genetic elements at which epigenetic states appear to be inherited through meiosis. The Lamarckian implicati...

Leaving the sheltered workshop

Leaving the Banquet

The offerings in this, my last issue as Editor of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, reinforce my feeling of stepping away from a banquet that has many rich courses still to come. In this final issue produced by NIDA: • Drs. Manoranjan D’Souza and Athina Markou review what researchers have discovered about how nicotine affects brain function to produce dependence, and examine the prospects ...