Coral surprise
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Although I can understand this trend, I'm not convinced that it's such an important issue. I have no doubt that capable and innovative students will always find the best approach to solve whatever problems they study. In the long term, I believe it is more important to work in a multidisciplinary environment where a trainee will be exposed to labs with diverse approaches and backgrounds. If you had to start all over again, would you be a scientist and if so in what field? I have no doubt that I would be in science as this has always been my center of interest. But I'm not sure about the precise area of study that I would choose today. I believe that when I was 24 years old I had more readily available 'facts' about science in general, including physics and math, than I have now. I think it would be great if I could step back and allow my 24 year old brain evaluate my science today. My hope would be that I would like what I saw. Your ambitions? What I really would like to understand is the spatial and temporal organization of a network of signaling pathways, such as a receptor tyrosine kinase pathway or the Wnt pathway. There are so many fundamental questions in signal transduction that are far from being solved. Where and when is a ligand secreted, and how does it interact with the extracellular matrix? Is the transducing receptor localized, and if it is, what is the biological significance of such compartmentalization? How does the localization of cytoplasmic proteins to a certain region of a cell contribute to the overall signaling characteristics of the pathway? How are signaling kinetics achieved in isolation or within a network of communicating pathways? I could go on and on and on, but it's time for me to go and walk my dogs. Recent reports indicate that many shallow coral reefs in the Caribbean, and other parts of the world, are under threat because of disease, pollution, land runoff and possibly rising seawater temperatures, that have caused increased coral mortality. But new studies on deep-water coral reefs, feared also to be under stress but little studied because of their inaccessibility, suggest the contrary: they are in surprisingly good shape. Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have been using a new small craft to survey the deep coral …
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005