Vertebrate aging research 2006

Mitochondrial mutations in vertebrate aging

The African turquoise killifish: A research organism to study vertebrate aging and diapause.

The African turquoise killifish has recently gained significant traction as a new research organism in the aging field. Our understanding of aging has strongly benefited from canonical research organisms-yeast, C. elegans, Drosophila, zebrafish, and mice. Many characteristics that are essential to understand aging-for example, the adaptive immune system or the hypothalamo-pituitary axis-are onl...

Analysis Of Vertebrate Pest Research

Research on vertebrate pest control is mostly empirical, focusing on control of species X in location Y using method Z. Such an approach is needed. The science of vertebrate pest research is developing some generalizations across species, locations, and methods. This paper further explores such generalizations by discussing six questions asked by Hone (1994), the answers to which are relevant t...

Agile 2006 Research Papers

In 2006, the Agile Conference series maintains its international leadership in research on agile software development methods, techniques, and tools. This year, 41 papers were submitted – nearly twice as many as in 2005. After an intensive review and discussion process, the research track program committee accepted 17% of the papers as long papers and an additional 10% percent of the submission...

Research Statement November 2006

Classically, the study of knots and links has proceeded topologically looking for features of knotted curves which depend only on their knot class. Recently there has been an increased interest in geometric knot theory, which attempts to measure geometric properties of a particular knotted curve and relate these to its knot type. Questions about the geometry of knots not only have intrinsic mat...