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Clopay's contemporary Avante Collection garage door played a prominent role on the December 9, 2011 episode of the ABC television series, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (EMHE).
Clopay partnered with Hickman Overhead Door, a Clopay Master Authorized dealer located in Milford, Delaware, to donate and install a 9' x 8' aluminum and glass garage door on a detached design studio specifically built for teenager Wyzhir Johnson-Goslee as part of his family's home makeover.
Wyzhir is an aspiring designer who lost his hand last Christmas Eve while working on the old house.
EMHE designers selected a door with a clear anodized aluminum frame and clear tempered glass for Wyzhir's studio. But they didn't use the Avante in a traditional garage door application. Instead, they incorporated it as a moving wall of windows to seamlessly merge the interior working space with the great outdoors.
At the press of a button, the garage door is automatically raised, allowing people and fresh air to flow during gatherings. Closed, the Avante provides a stunning panoramic exterior view.
Other Avante window options, including frosted and mirrored glass, are also available to control the degree of light transmission and privacy.
"Clopay has partnered with our dealers and the Extreme Home Makeover team to donate and install garage doors for many deserving families over the years," says Pat Lohse, Clopay's vice president of residential marketing. "We are thrilled that one of our most unique door models was integrated into this amazing space for such a talented and inspiring young man."
Visit the Clopay blog at /blog/post/2011/12/14/Clopay-Garage-Door-Becomes-a-Door-of-Opportunity-for-Young-Aspiring-Designer-on-"Extreme-Makeover-Home-Edition"
to see more photos of Wyzhir's studio.
For more information about the Clopay Avante Collection, visit /avante.aspx. To contact Hickman Overhead Door, visit http://www.hickmandoor.com/.
Watch the full Johnson-Goslee makeover episode online at http://abc.go.com/watch/extreme-makeover-home-edition/SH559052/VD55157294/johnson-goslee-family-part-1.
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One Caltech professor and three Caltech alumni have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The announcement was made Tuesday, April 28, in Washington D.C.
The Caltech faculty member elected to the Academy is Marianne Bronner, Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology and Executive Officer for Neurobiology. Bronner is a developmental biologist whose studies focus on the cellular and molecular events underlying the formation, lineage, and migration of neural crest cells—early cells in vertebrate embryos that eventually give rise to a diverse range of cell types, from neurons to facial skeleton cells. In 2013, she was awarded the Conklin Award from the Society for Developmental Biology, and she currently serves as the editor in chief of Developmental Biology, the society's official journal. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009) and presently serves on the scientific advisory board of the Sontag Foundation.
Bronner joins 75 current Caltech faculty and three trustees as members of the NAS. Also included in this year's new members are three Caltech alumni: Eric Betzig (BS '83), a Nobel laureate and group leader in physics at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus; Robert Schoelkopf (PhD '95), the Stirling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics at Yale; and William Ward (PhD '73), an institute scientist in the Department of Space Studies at the Southwest Research Institute.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on the academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.
A full list of new members is available on the academy website at: http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/april-28-2015-NAS-Election.html
Most of the time, we learn only gradually, incrementally building connections between actions or events and outcomes. But there are exceptions—every once in a while, something happens and we immediately learn to associate that stimulus with a result. For example, maybe you have had bad service at a store once and sworn that you will never shop there again.
This type of one-shot learning is more than handy when it comes to survival—think, of an animal quickly learning to avoid a type of poisonous berry. In that case, jumping to the conclusion that the fruit was to blame for a bout of illness might help the animal steer clear of the same danger in the future. On the other hand, quickly drawing connections despite a lack of evidence can also lead to misattributions and superstitions; for example, you might blame a new food you tried for an illness when in fact it was harmless, or you might begin to believe that if you do not eat your usual meal, you will get sick.
Scientists have long suspected that one-shot learning involves a different brain system than gradual learning, but could not explain what triggers this rapid learning or how the brain decides which mode to use at any one time.
Now Caltech scientists have discovered that uncertainty in terms of the causal relationship—whether an outcome is actually caused by a particular stimulus—is the main factor in determining whether or not rapid learning occurs. They say that the more uncertainty there is about the causal relationship, the more likely it is that one-shot learning will take place. When that uncertainty is high, they suggest, you need to be more focused in order to learn the relationship between stimulus and outcome.
The researchers have also identified a part of the prefrontal cortex—the large brain area located immediately behind the forehead that is associated with complex cognitive activities—that appears to evaluate such causal uncertainty and then activate one-shot learning when needed.
The findings, described in the April 28 issue of the journal PLOS Biology, could lead to new approaches for helping people learn more efficiently. The work also suggests that an inability to properly attribute cause and effect might lie at the heart of some psychiatric disorders that involve delusional thinking, such as schizophrenia.
"Many have assumed that the novelty of a stimulus would be the main factor driving one-shot learning, but our computational model showed that causal uncertainty was more important," says Sang Wan Lee, a postdoctoral scholar in neuroscience at Caltech and lead author of the new paper. "If you are uncertain, or lack evidence, about whether a particular outcome was caused by a preceding event, you are more likely to quickly associate them together."
The researchers used a simple behavioral task paired with brain imaging to determine where in the brain this causal processing takes place. Based on the results, it appears that the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) is involved in the processing and then couples with the hippocampus to switch on one-shot learning, as needed.
Indeed, a switch is an appropriate metaphor, says Shinsuke Shimojo, Caltech's Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology. Since the hippocampus is known to be involved in so-called episodic memory, in which the brain quickly links a particular context with an event, the researchers hypothesized that this brain region might play a role in one-shot learning. But they were surprised to find that the coupling between the VLPFC and the hippocampus was either all or nothing. "Like a light switch, one-shot learning is either on, or it's off," says Shimojo.
In the behavioral study, 47 participants completed a simple causal-inference task; 20 of those participants completed the study in the Caltech Brain Imaging Center, where their brains were monitored using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The task consisted of multiple trials. During each trial, participants were shown a series of five images one at a time on a computer screen. Over the course of the task, some images appeared multiple times, while others appeared only once or twice. After every fifth image, either a positive or negative monetary outcome was displayed. Following a number of trials, participants were asked to rate how strongly they thought each image and outcome were linked. As the task proceeded, participants gradually learned to associate some of the images with particular outcomes. One-shot learning was apparent in cases where participants made an association between an image and an outcome after a single pairing.
The researchers hypothesize that the VLPFC acts as a controller mediating the one-shot learning process. They caution, however, that they have not yet proven that the brain region actually controls the process in that way. To prove that, they will need to conduct additional studies that will involve modifying the VLPFC's activity with brain stimulation and seeing how that directly affects behavior.
Still, the researchers are intrigued by the fact that the VLPFC is very close to another part of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex that they previously found to be involved in helping the brain to switch between two other forms of learning—habitual and goal-directed learning, which involve routine behavior and more carefully considered actions, respectively. "Now we might cautiously speculate that a significant general function of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex is to act as a leader, telling other parts of the brain involved in different types of behavioral functions when they should get involved and when they should not get involved in controlling our behavior," says coauthor John O'Doherty, professor of psychology and director of the Caltech Brain Imaging Center.
The work, "Neural Computations Mediating One-Shot Learning in the Human Brain," was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Japan Science and Technology Agency–CREST, and the Caltech-Tamagawa global Center of Excellence.
Researchers at Caltech have discovered how an abundant class of RNA genes, called long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs, pronounced link RNAs) can regulate key genes. By studying an important lncRNA, called Xist, the scientists identified how this RNA gathers a group of proteins and ultimately prevents women from having an extra functional X-chromosome—a condition in female embryos that leads to death in early development. These findings mark the first time that researchers have uncovered the detailed mechanism of action for lncRNA genes.
"For years, we thought about genes as just DNA sequences that encode proteins, but those genes only make up about 1 percent of the genome. Mammalian genomes also encode many thousands of lncRNAs," says Assistant Professor of Biology Mitch Guttman, who led the study published online in the April 27 issue of the journal Nature. These lncRNAs such as Xist play a structural role, acting to scaffold—or bring together and organize—the key proteins involved in cellular and molecular processes, such as gene expression and stem cell differentiation.
Guttman, who helped to discover an entire class of lncRNAs as a graduate student at MIT in 2009, says that although most of these genes encoded in our genomes have only recently been appreciated, there are several specific examples of lncRNA genes that have been known for decades. One well-studied example is Xist, which is important for a process called X chromosome inactivation.
All females are born with two X chromosomes in every cell, one inherited from their mother and one from their father. In contrast, males only contain one X chromosome (along with a Y chromosome). However, like males, females only need one copy of each X-chromosome gene—having two copies is an abnormality that will lead to death early during development. The genome skirts these problems by essentially "turning off" one X chromosome in every cell.
Previous research showed that Xist is essential to this process and does this by somehow preventing transcription, the initial step of the expression of genes on the X chromosome. However, because Xist is not a traditional protein-coding gene, until now researchers have had trouble figuring out exactly how Xist stops transcription and shuts down an entire chromosome.
"To start to make sense of what makes lncRNAs special and how they can control all of these different cellular processes, we need to be able to understand the mechanism of how any lncRNA gene can work. Because Xist is such an important molecule and because so much is known about what it does, it seemed like a great system to try to dissect the mechanisms of how it and other lncRNAs work," Guttman says.
lncRNAs are known to corral and organize the proteins that are necessary for cellular processes, so Guttman and his colleagues began their study of the function of Xist by first developing a technique to find out what proteins it naturally interacts with in the cell. With a new method, called RNA antisense purification with mass spectrometry (RAP-MS), the researchers extracted and purified Xist lncRNA molecules, as well as the proteins that directly interact with Xist, from mouse embryonic stem cells. Then, collaborators at the Proteome Exploration Laboratory at Caltech applied a technique called quantitative mass spectrometry to identify those interacting proteins.
"RNA usually only obeys one rule: binding to proteins. RAP-MS is like a molecular microscope into identifying RNA-protein interactions," says John Rinn, associate professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University, who was not involved in the study. "RAP-MS will provide critically needed insights into how lncRNAs function to organize proteins and in turn regulate gene expression."
Applying this to Xist uncovered 10 specific proteins that interact with Xist. Of these, three—SAF-A (Scaffold attachment factor-A), LBR (Lamin B Receptor), and SHARP (SMRT and HDAC associated repressor protein)—are essential for X chromosome inactivation. "Before this experiment," Guttman says, "no one knew a single protein that was required by Xist for silencing transcription on the X chromosome, but with this method we immediately found three that are essential. If you lose any one of them, Xist doesn't work—it will not silence the X chromosome during development."
The new findings provide the first detailed picture of how lncRNAs work within a cellular process. Through further analysis, the researchers found that these three proteins performed three distinct, but essential, roles. SAF-A helps to tether Xist and all of its hitchhiking proteins to the DNA of the X chromosome, at which point LBR remodels the chromosome so that it is less likely to be expressed. The actual "silencing," Guttman and his colleagues discovered, is done by the third protein of the trio: SHARP.
To produce functional proteins from the DNA (genes) of a chromosome, the genes must first be transcribed into RNA by an enzyme called RNA polymerase II. Guttman and his team found that SHARP leads to the exclusion of polymerase from the DNA, thus preventing transcription and gene expression.
This information soon may have clinical applications. The Xist lncRNA silences the X chromosome simply because it is located on the X chromosome. However, previous studies have demonstrated that this RNA and its silencing machinery can be used to inactivate other chromosomes—for example, the third copy of chromosome 21 that is present in individuals with Downs' syndrome.
"We are starting to pick apart how lncRNAs work. We now know, for example, how Xist localizes to sites on X, how it silences transcription, and how it can change DNA structure," Guttman says. "One of the things that is really exciting for me is that we can potentially leverage the principles used by lncRNAs, move them around in the genome, and use them as therapeutic agents to target specific defective pathways in disease."
"But I think the real reason why this is so important for our field and even beyond is because this is a different type of regulation than we've seen before in the cell—it is a vast world that we previously knew nothing about," he adds.
This work was published in a recent paper titled: "The Xist lncRNA interacts directly with SHARP to silence transcription through HDAC3." The co-first authors of the paper are Caltech postdoctoral scholar Colleen A. McHugh and graduate student Chun-Kan Chen. Other coauthors from Caltech are Amy Chow, Christine F. Surka, Christina Tran, Mario Blanco, Christina Burghard, Annie Moradian, Alexander A. Shishkin, Julia Su, Michael J. Sweredoski, and Sonja Hess from the Proteome Exploration Laboratory. Additional authors include Amy Pandya-Jones and Kathrin Plath from UCLA and Patrick McDonel from MIT.
The study was supported by funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Beckman Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the Rose Hills Foundation, the Edward Mallinckrodt Foundation, the Sontag Foundation, and the Searle Scholars Program.
Caltech seniors Janani Mandayam Comar and Aaron Krupp have been named 2015 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship winners. Each fellowship is a grant of $30,000 awarded to seniors graduating from a selected group of colleges. According to the Watson Foundation's website, "Fellows conceive original projects, execute them outside of the United States for one year and embrace the ensuing journey. They decide where to go, who to meet and when to change course." Fifty fellows were selected from a pool of nearly 700 candidates.
Janani Mandayam Comar is a biology major from Downers Grove, Illinois. During her Watson year abroad, she will be using Bharatanatyam, a classic dance form from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, to reflect the experiences of various "outsider" communities. "Bharatanatyam was originally an exclusively female way of connecting with God," Comar says. "It was revived in the early 1900s as a way to tell stories through movement, and it is now danced by both men and women, and is no longer confined to Indian communities."
In Australia, Comar will be working with the transgender community, whose situation is in some ways mirrored by traditional Indian culture. "Hindu mythology has a lot of transgender elements although the subject is taboo in modern Indian society," she explains. In South Africa, home of the oldest expatriate Indian community in the world, Comar will investigate the role that Indian women played during apartheid, and in Malaysia, a country where human trafficking is still common, she will work with nongovernmental organizations that assist trafficked women in order to tell their stories. Finally, in Buenos Aires, she plans to join a studio teaching Bharatanatyam. "They're working in a foreign culture where it had not previously been appreciated," she says. "The situation has parallels to women's efforts to break into STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] fields, especially in male-dominated societies like Argentina."
Comar will be entering an MD/PhD program on her return to the United States and plans to become a physician-scientist, eventually as a professor at a medical school.
Aaron Krupp of Needham, Massachusetts, is a mechanical engineering major. Over the next year, he will be working on low-tech projects to improve the quality of life on the most basic level at sites in India, Southeast Asia, and Nepal. In India, he plans to help manufacture durable roofing tiles out of recycled cardboard. He also will be working near refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border to help develop charcoal-based drinking-water filtration systems, and in Nepal, he will be assembling used bicycle parts into lever-driven, variable-torque all-terrain wheelchairs.
"I am getting involved in small components of projects that are already underway," says Krupp, who currently has no post-Watson plans. For example, the water filters are the product of a lab at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where Krupp worked last summer, and the off-roading wheelchairs are an MIT project that he first encountered in 2013 while working at a hospital in rural Haiti after the magnitude-7.0 earthquake.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected five Caltech community members as academy fellows. They are faculty members Michael B. Elowitz, professor of biology and bioengineering and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Mory Gharib (PhD '83), Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering, director of the Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences, and vice provost; and Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, professor of chemistry; and Caltech trustees James Rothenberg and Maria Hummer-Tuttle. The American Academy is one of the nation's oldest honorary societies. Members are accomplished scholars and leaders representing diverse fields including academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts.
Michael B. Elowitz was noted for his work that "helped to initiate synthetic biology." Elowitz studies genetic circuits—interacting genes and proteins that enable cells to sense environmental conditions and to communicate. He and his group build simplified synthetic genetic circuits and study their effects in bacteria, yeast, and mammalian cells. He has received numerous honors in recognition of his work, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007.
Mory Gharib and his group use nature's own design principles—apparent in fins, wings, blood vessels, and more—as inspiration for a myriad of inventions. They have studied fluid flows inside the zebrafish heart to develop efficient micropumps and more efficient artificial heart valves, and cactus spine to develop arrays of nanoneedles, based on carbon nanotubes, for painless drug delivery. Gharib holds nearly 100 patents, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson was noted for her pioneering work in the new fields of chemical glycobiology and chemical neurobiology. Her work combines organic chemistry and neurobiology in order to understand how carbohydrates contribute to fundamental brain processes such as cell growth and neuronal communication, neural development, and memory at the molecular level. She and her group discovered a means for suppressing tumor-cell growth by blocking the attachment of certain sugars to proteins, restricting delivery of certain carbohydrates to proteins within the tumor.
Maria Hummer-Tuttle, a lawyer, was a partner and chair of the management committee and co–managing partner of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips in Los Angeles. She currently serves on the boards of Caltech, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the W. M. Keck Foundation, the Suu Foundation, and the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies. Hummer-Tuttle is president of the Hummer Tuttle Foundation, serves on the advisory board of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School as well as on the program advisory committee of the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Getty Conservation Institute Council.
Jim Rothenberg is chairman of the Capital Group Companies, Inc. In addition to his service on the Caltech board, he serves on the boards of Capital Research and Management Company, the Capital Group Companies, Inc., and American Funds Distributors, Inc. In addition, he is a portfolio counselor for the Growth Fund of America, as well as vice chairman of the Growth Fund of America and Fundamental Investors. A chartered financial analyst, he was named to the Harvard Corporation as the treasurer of Harvard University in 2004. He also serves as a director of Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena.
Elowitz, Gharib, and Hsieh-Wilson join 83 current Caltech faculty as members of the American Academy. Also included in this year's list are five alumni: Robert Cohen (MS '70, PhD '72), St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and codirector of the DuPont-MIT Alliance; Alexei Filippenko (PhD '84), professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley; Katherine Hayles (MS '69), professor of literature at Duke University; Michael Snyder (PhD'83), professor and chair of genetics at Stanford University; and Donald Truhlar (PhD '70), professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota.
Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholar-patriots, the academy aims to serve the nation by cultivating "every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." The academy has elected as fellows and foreign honorary members "leading thinkers and doers" from each generation, including George Washington and Ben Franklin in the 18th century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th, and Albert Einstein and Woodrow Wilson in the 20th.
A full list of new members is available on the academy website at https://www.amacad.org/content/members/members.aspx.
The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on October 10, 2015, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The ground beneath our feet may seem unexceptional, but it has a profound impact on the mechanics of landslides, earthquakes, and even Mars rovers. That is why civil and mechanical engineer Jose Andrade studies soils as well as other granular materials. Andrade creates computational models that capture the behavior of these materials—simulating a landslide or the interaction of a rover wheel and Martian soil, for instance. Though modeling a few grains of sand may be simple, predicting their action as a bulk material is very complex. "This dichotomy…leads to some really cool work," says Andrade. "The challenge is to capture the essence of the physics without the complexity of applying it to each grain in order to devise models that work at the landslide level."
Geobiologist Victoria Orphan looks deep into the ocean to learn how microbes influence carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling. For more than 20 years, her lab has been studying methane-breathing marine microorganisms that inhabit rocky mounds on the ocean floor. "Methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so tracing its flow through the environment is really a priority for climate models and for understanding the carbon cycle," says Orphan. Her team recently discovered a significantly wider habitat for these microbes than was previously known. The microbes, she thinks, could be preventing large volumes of the potent greenhouse gas from entering the oceans and reaching the atmosphere.
Researchers know that aerosols—tiny particles in the atmosphere—scatter and absorb incoming sunlight, affecting the formation and properties of clouds. But it is not well understood how these effects might influence climate change. Enter chemical engineer John Seinfeld. His team conducted a global survey of the impact of changing aerosol levels on low-level marine clouds—clouds with the largest impact on the amount of incoming sunlight Earth reflects back into space—and found that varying aerosol levels altered both the quantity of atmospheric clouds and the clouds' internal properties. These results offer climatologists "unique guidance on how warm cloud processes should be incorporated in climate models with changing aerosol levels," Seinfeld says.
Tiny parasitic worms infect nearly half a billion people worldwide, causing gastrointestinal issues, cognitive impairment, and other health problems. Biologist Paul Sternberg is on the case. His lab recently analyzed the entire 313-million-nucleotide genome of the hookworm Ancylostoma ceylanicum to determine which genes turn on when the worm infects its host. A new family of proteins unique to parasitic worms and related to the early infection process was identified; the discovery could lead to new treatments targeting those genes. "A parasitic infection is a balance between the parasites trying to suppress the immune system and the host trying to attack the parasite," Sternberg observes, "and by analyzing the genome, we can uncover clues that might help us alter that balance in favor of the host."
Earth is special, not least because our solar system has a unique (as far as we know) orbital architecture: its rocky planets have relatively low masses compared to those around other sun-like stars. Planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin has an explanation. Using computer simulations to describe the solar system's early evolution, he and his colleagues showed that Jupiter's primordial wandering initiated a collisional cascade that ultimately destroyed the first generation population of more massive planets once residing in Earth's current orbital neighborhood. This process wiped the inner solar system's slate clean and set the stage for the formation of the planets that exist today. "Ultimately, what this means," says Batygin, "is that planets truly like Earth are intrinsically not very common."
Human understanding of the world has evolved over centuries, anchored to scientific and technological advancements and our ability to map uncharted territories. Historian Nicolás Wey-Gόmez traces this evolution and how the age of discovery helped shape culture and politics in the modern era. Using primary sources such as letters and diaries, he examines the assumptions behind Europe's encounter with the Americas, focusing on early portrayals of native peoples by Europeans. "The science and technology that early modern Europeans recovered from antiquity by way of the Arab world enabled them to imagine lands far beyond their own," says Wey-Gómez. "This knowledge provided them with an essential framework to begin to comprehend the peoples they encountered around the globe."
At Caltech, researchers study the Earth from many angles—from investigating its origins and evolution to exploring its geology and inner workings to examining its biological systems. Taken together, their findings enable a more nuanced understanding of our planet in all its complexity, helping to ensure that it—and we—endure. This slideshow highlights just a few of the Earth-centered projects happening right now at Caltech.
Mohamad Abedi, a PhD candidate in bioengineering, has received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Thirty fellows were selected from nearly 1,200 applicants "for their potential to make significant contributions to US society, culture, or their academic field," according to the fellowship program description. Each Soros Fellow will receive up to $90,000 to help cover two years of tuition, and other educational and living expenses, while studying any subject at any university in the United States. The fellowship was established to assist young new Americans—permanent residents, naturalized citizens, or children of naturalized citizen parents—at critical points in their educations.
"I'm honored and excited to receive this fellowship. Coming to the United States provided me with a plethora of opportunities and support that allowed me to pursue my dream and be here at Caltech today," Abedi says.
Abedi was born to Palestinian refugees in the United Arab Emirates. As a child he frequently visited family in the Beddawi refugee camp in Lebanon. The lack of adequate health care resources he saw there motivated him to pursue a degree in bioengineering.
"As a bioengineer, I hope to develop low-cost medical technologies that could provide people with health care regardless of their geographical location and financial capabilities," Abedi says.
After moving with his family to California during his final year of high school, Abedi began a degree in biomedical engineering at UC Irvine, where he worked on building affordable diagnostic devices that could run on air instead of electricity. At UC Irvine, he also ventured into synthetic biology to study bacterial genetic circuits—interacting genes and proteins that enable cells to sense and communicate with one another.
Now a first-year graduate student in the lab of Mikhail Shapiro, assistant professor of chemical engineering, Abedi aims to develop tools for the noninvasive modulation of brain circuitry. These would eventually allow scientists to understand and treat neurological and psychiatric diseases involving the dysfunction of local neural circuits, such as depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder.
"Understanding the human brain, where trillions of cells work in harmony to form a magnificent structure, is arguably the most ambitious target of scientific inquiry," Abedi says. "I am interested in utilizing tools from cellular and molecular engineering to study the brain, with the overarching goal of improving human health and welfare worldwide."
Yuki Oka, an assistant professor of biology, has been named a 2015 Searle Scholar. The Searle Scholars Program provides grants to young faculty to support research in the biomedical sciences and chemistry. Fifteen scholars are named annually, each receiving $100,000 per year for three years.
"I'm very excited and honored by this award," says Oka, who studies how the brain compiles both internal and external sensory information in order to maintain homeostasis, or internal stability of the body. In particular, Oka's group studies how the brain controls the feeling of thirst, and how that feeling drives us to drink water. There are multiple processes involved in regulating thirst in the brain.
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Before joining the faculty at Caltech, Oka was a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia University. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo. He is the 18th current Caltech faculty member to be named a Searle Scholar.


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I believe the trends away from mainframes to the Cloud will have a large impact on enterprise mobility architecture. If we believe that going forward, enterprise mobility architectures will be closely tied to the Cloud, then we need to take a serious look at architectural design. I have written about MBaaS (Mobile Back End as a Service) which is a new form of Cloud offering, but today I want share my opinions on best practices.
I have been working on an MBaaS project recently, and we ran into some interesting challenges when it came to submitting the App to the Apple App Store. In the middle of the night there was some server maintenance going on which was obviously considered out of hours in the UK. The point I reminded everyone was that Apple Valley is actually GMT-7, and so what is considered out of hours in the UK is not the case where Apple does their testing.
We then got onto some interesting questions:
- "Do we have availability monitoring?"
- "How do you get the Node service working again if it falls over?"
- "Do we have High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR)?"
This led to me take a deep look at the architecture of building Cloud native applications on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS). MBaaS does abstract a lot of the underlying details away from you, but at the end of the day if the underlying Cloud provider is Amazon EC2 (which is a very common option) then maybe it is worth understanding exactly how AWS works. Abstraction is a great concept for simplification but it is always better if you start off with a core understanding before you start such a process. Furthermore, it used to be the case that most server side development was performed by specialists in server side development but the popularity of Node has meant that client-side JavaScript developers are now faced with developing server side applications that run on the Cloud for the first time.
One of the best articles that I found underpinning architectural design for Cloud native applications on AWS was written back in 2011 (but is still referenced today) and genuinely changed my architectural philosophy on the matter (http://it20.info/2011/04/tcp-clouds-udp-clouds-design-for-fail-and-aws/).
In a nutshell, Amazon Web Services uses a UDP-cloud model because it doesn't guarantee reliability at the infrastructure level.
This is a very interesting concept so I want to take the rest of the Blog to explain it, starting with a quick reminder of TCP and UDP.
- TCP is a reliable connection oriented protocol with segment sequencing and acknowledgments
- UDP is an unreliable connectionless protocol with no sequencing or acknowledgments
During a few large AWS outages then a number of Bloggers (such as George Reese) outlined the differences between the "design for fail" model and the "traditional" model. The traditional model, among other things, has high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) characteristics built right into the infrastructure and these features are typically application-agnostic. An alternative view of "design for fail" and "traditional" is therefore TCP-clouds and UDP-clouds.
- A TCP Cloud has the application in the consumer space and the HA / DR policies and Cloud Compute in the provider space.
- A UDP Cloud has the application and the HA/DR policies in the consumer space and only the Cloud Compute in the provider space.
This is obviously a vast oversimplification and AWS offers far more than just cloud computing, but the key components in this equation are the ones to focus on. AWS doesn't have high availability built into the EC2 service, instead they suggest to deploy in multiple "Availability Zones" simply to avoid concurrent failures. In other words, if you deploy your application in a given "Availability Zone," there is nothing that will "fail it over" to another "Availability Zone."
Some of AWS customers, therefore, developed tools to test the resiliency of their applications such as a Chaos Monkey tool (http://readwrite.com/2010/12/20/chaos-monkey-how-netflix-uses). These are software programs that are designed to break things randomly. In a TCP-cloud it would be the cloud provider to run traditional tests to make sure the infrastructure could self-recover. In a UDP-cloud it is the developer that must run a Chaos Monkey in order to test if the application could self-recover since it's been designed for fail.
A different view on this is cattle and pets (http://thinkacloud.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/is-openstack-and-vmware-like-cattle-and-pets/).
vSphere servers are likened to pets:
· They are given names (such as pussinboots.cern.ch)
· Uniquely hand raised and cared for
· Nursed back to health when sick
OpenStack servers are likened to cattle:
· They get random identification numbers (vm0042.cern.ch)
· They are almost identical to each other
· They are cared for as a group
· They and basically just replaced when ill
The conclusion being that "Future application architectures should use Cattle, but Pets with strong configuration management are viable and still needed". If you haven't made the connection yet, then Cattle are UDP Clouds and Pets are the TCP Clouds.
I have always classed MBaaS as somewhere between Cloud PaaS and Cloud SaaS to my colleagues but I have been quite wrong in this regard. I want to update that definition to the following:
"MBaaS is the combination of Cloud SaaS and EITHER Cloud PaaS or Cloud IaaS, which depends on both the underlying Cloud provider and the supporting service model".
That means if you have an underlying Cloud provider of AWS, and your MBaaS vendor isn't giving you additional support in HA/DR, availability monitoring or Chaos Monkey tools, then you are basically sitting on a Cloud IaaS which is acting as a UDP Cloud. That is an important thing to be aware of in terms of what you need to bring to the party, and is the potential danger of not really understanding the underlying Cloud model that you are working with.
http://devo.ps/blog/2013/06/26/goodbye-node-forever-hello-pm2.html). Node-Forever is a popular option to bring Node services back to life again (Keep Alive) and also supports CoffeeScript. PM2 adds the following: log aggregation; API; terminal monitoring (including CPU usage and memory consumption by cluster); native clustering; and JSON configuration.
There are also plenty of ways to monitor availability of the Cloud instance. You could subscribe to a twitter feed of your particular Cloud (http://status.aws.amazon.com/). There are quite a few services that offer a ping service to check availability (https://www.statuscake.com/paid-website-monitoring/). If you are using Appcelerator Cloud Services then there is a great tool called Relic available on their Market Place (https://marketplace.appcelerator.com/apps/1140?restoreSearch=true#!features/Availability_Monitoring).
In terms of HA then you need to look into deploying a High Availability Proxy. HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is an open source load balancer which can load balance any TCP service. It is particularly suited for HTTP load balancing as it supports session persistence and layer 7 processing. I am not sure how many Cloud developers actually use Chaos Monkey tools to test DR but the option is certainly there. Certainly you should be designing your applications to be stateless as much as possible and looking into NoSQL databases.
I hope this article has helped you to understand that you cannot just assume your MBaaS vendor is providing a full Cloud PaaS and all of this stuff just comes out of the box. I hope you will also consider designing your Cloud services with a general consideration of the underlying infrastructure. You should have this discussion early on in the project and work out which tools you need to be providing and which enterprise architectural principles need to be applied.
Of course there is nothing to stop you having two or three different underlying Cloud providers or just having the mission critical features running on a private local Cloud. It is an important point to remember though, Amazon EC2 and other Cloud providers can go down for 48 hours. It is very rare but it is not unheard of in the history of the Cloud.
"Design for failure and you won't ever be surprised"
I would like to thank Massimo and Douglas Lin for their exceptional Blogs that I have referenced throughout this article.
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Leap's low cost wireless service will continue to grow with more and more people earning less and less. With fewer and fewer people having good jobs, more and more leap accounts should occur. The stock value will grow and grow and other large companies will bid and bid for their business. I look for the stock price to higher and higher.
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I do not check my credit card statment much at all. Today I did and learned that there was a bill from Savingsace.com for $19.95 I called them to find out what it was and they told me that I signed up through Travelocity.com from back in March. I did not sign up for any such thing and asked for proof that they have yet to provide. I was billed for about $140.00 and the credit card company does not seem to think they will be able to reverse any of these changes. I use to use Travelocity but never again. I will also check my statments monthly for such small charges.
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When I went to the parts department, with my receipt in hand, I was told by the parts manager that this filter was discontinued by Branch Brook 10 years ago. First, it was represented to me to be a current model. 2nd I have not even owned the pool for 10 years (I bought my house in 2000) When I complained to the manager that I wa given a discontinued product, his answer was basically "too bad."
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Kamenir-Reznik decided last week to run at supporters' urging, her political consultant Marc Litchman said Wednesday night.
"She's been heavily recruited to get into the race," Litchman said.
Kamenir-Reznik's announcement upends the race to represent Senate District 27, a seat also sought by top Pavley staffer Henry Stern.
On Wednesday night, Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl and former supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky , who'd previously backed Stern, said they'd switched their support to Kamenir-Reznik after she told them she was getting in the race.
Yaroslavsky called Janice a close personal friend and pointed to her work as president of the California Women's Law Center, which advocates for the rights of women and girls.
"She is a dynamic, energetic and visionary leader who will be a great State Senator," Yaroslavsky wrote in an email. "If elected, she will instantly have a profound impact on California, our region and the San Fernando Valley."
Kamenir-Reznik is co-founder and president of Jewish World Watch, an organization dedicated to the fight against genocide. She practiced law as a partner of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler and Mitchell, and helped run a law firm with her husband, Ben Reznik, for more than a decade.
Ben Reznik is a registered lobbyist at City Hall who helps fundraise for local politicians.
Shawn Bayliss, an aide to Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz, is also among those running. Jim Dantona, a top staffer to Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nury Martinez, withdrew from the race last year.
Who serves on LA 2024? Even city analysts don't know
As the Los Angeles City Council prepares to sign off on an agreement to bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, top officials at the city say they don't know who serves on the non-profit spearheading the Olympic effort.
It's also unclear if any of the non-profit's members would benefit financially–through their outside companies–if the Games come to Los Angeles.
Jeff Millman, spokesman for the non-profit Los Angeles 2024 Exploratory Committee, which is known as LA 2024, said the group's make-up is still evolving.
"The board is in formation and will change very quickly if LA24 is selected by the (U.S. Olympic Committee)," Millman wrote. "At that point, we will soon be announcing a substantial expansion of the board to more than 50 LA business and community leaders."
All potential business relationships or other conflicts of interest that those board members may have will be vetted and subject to approval by the full board, Millman said.
The current LA 2024 board consist of the following individuals, Millman said: Casey Wasserman, Billy Gerber, Skip Paul, Brian Nelson, and James Perse.
Wasserman works as a sports and entertainment agent.
Online records show the LA 2024 group was formed last year.
The City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on entering into an agreement to begin negotiating to bring the games to LA.
If approved, the city will eventually also sign off on a Memorandum of Understanding to negotiate with LA 2024 directly, Chief Legislative Analyst Sharon Tso said.
In a brief interview Tuesday morning, Tso said she hasn't been told who serves on the non-profit.
"This has only been before us for the last two weeks," Tso said. "Those are some of the questions that we are going to have to answer."
Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana also said he didn't know who serves on the non-profit. He said the group was expected to grow if Los Angeles was selected by the USOC.


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Q: Can you talk about what the Myra Kraft Community MVP Awards mean to you and how important they are to this organization?
RKK: This is what makes...when you think, we had over 300 applications, just people volunteering their time, it's really inspirational. This 84-year old woman who gave 24,000 hours to volunteer and then the 92-year old who works at the School for the Blind? There's hope for all us. Keep doing good, it pays back.
Q: What are your thoughts on the signing of Tim Tebow?
RKK: If you want to win in this league, you need quality depth management. In the age of the salary cap, whenever you can get a competitive, first-grade person to join your team, you never know what happens. But for me personally, having Tim Tebow on this team, he's someone who believes in spirituality, he's very competitive and works hard and has a great attitude and he's a winner. Having him as part of our franchise is great but he has to compete just like anyone else. We're blessed to have a lot of people like that, but the fact that spirituality is so important to him is very appealing to me.
Q: What makes this such an appealing situation for him? The professionalism and the Patriot Way, do you think that's the ideal environment for him?
RKK: You'd have to ask him that. We try to have a certain standard here of what's right for us. Every interaction I've seen and watched, whether he's in college or when I met him in the draft process, he handles himself in a first-class way. I don't know anyone who has ever said anything that is not positive about him, people who are objective.
Q: Do you worry about the media frenzy he brings and if it might disrupt the team?
RKK: I'm just excited you're all back. I'm excited football is back, I really have missed it. It's going to be tough getting to the end of July after tomorrow. I'm just really excited for this season and excited about the team we're building.
Q: Four years ago when Michael Vick was a free agent, you said, 'Why would I ever want to take Tom Brady off the field?' Assuming you feel that way again, can Tim Tebow find other ways to contribute to the team if Tom Brady is upright?
RKK: In my mind, we have the greatest quarterback of all time on our team and every time he has the ball in his hands, we have a chance to do something great. Nothing has changed in that regard for me.
Q: How much contact have you had with Tim Tebow over the years?
RKK: I like to go to two or three college games, some of my sons and one of my grandsons loves to go. We went down to Florida, I had a chance to see him play. I had a chance to see him play in the college championship game. I remember in the draft process and we've had a chance to run into one another. He's just first class.
Q: What impresses you about Tim Tebow on the field?
RKK: I think he's hard working and very cooperative. I don't think there's any coach who wouldn't like to have a team full of people like he is. Like [Tom] Brady, he comes out there and works hard or Vince Wilfork, Jerod Mayo. They come in, they work hard, they prepare hard and they're all business. You can't get enough people like that on your team. We're honored that he's with us.
Q: Josh McDaniels drafted him in Denver. Have you talked to Josh about where Tim Tebow fits in?
RKK: I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don't question how they do things. We evaluate how they handle it.
Q: I'm just saying out of curiosity as a fan, have you asked him what he can bring to the table?
RKK: You might think if you owned a team and you were in that situation, then you'd talk to him.
Q: I might ask.
RKK: Well, I might follow your lead and do exactly what you say.
Q: How did this signing come about?
RKK: He's just one of 90 people right now. I wonder if we haven't talked enough about him. But if you want to keep talking about him, we can do that.
Q: Bill Belichick said the signing was a team decision. Were you part of that decision?
RKK: Yes, he spoke to me about it. Look, life is about collecting good people around you who you like to have with you and who want to win. I think he, like many of our other players, fall in that category. You can't have enough good people around you. He has the added dimension of spirituality being so important to him and that personally appeals to me a lot.
Q: Your team has two days left in the offseason program –
RKK: One. I'd like if it was two.
Q: Are there things that you've noticed about the way that the 2013 team is shaping up?
RKK: To be honest, after the draft I'm always excited, I'm always excited now. But in the end, you need two, three, four, five, six games and hope there are no injuries. I am excited about this team. I think our young players from last year have improved. They've worked hard. We've seen the greatest jump in the past of so many of our players between the first and second year. With the salary cap and free agency, you have a player for four years and if you're going to try to build a team and get good value, that second year is pretty important. We've been able to bring in some interesting free agents. I'm very excited about the team.
Q: What do you think of Tim Tebow's throwing mechanics?
RKK: He's a lot better than I am. Actually watching him yesterday, I was just out there for a short period, but to me he looked pretty good. It's fun having him here. I think that Tom Brady throws pretty well and I also think Ryan Mallett does the same so it's nice to have three quarterbacks that can throw it very well. Read
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Located in the heart of Graz, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Messe Congress and Styrian Armoury. Graz Town Hall and Mausoleum of Emperor Ferdinand II. are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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Along with a restaurant, this smoke-free hotel has a 24-hour fitness center and a bar/lounge. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include self parking, coffee/tea in a common area, and meeting rooms.
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Portfolio Recovery AAC TRYING TO COLLECT ON A DEAD DEBT, OVER TEN YRS OLD, AND INSISTING ON DOUBLE ORIGINAL PRICE. ARE THEY SERIOUS ? BLOCKED FOREVER ! THANKS TO NETTALK ! Internet, Virginia
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