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TN Editorial: Council needs to address prayer now
Published: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 12, 2010 at 6:40 p.m.
Henderson County commissioners don't have a prayer of hearing a good, balanced discussion during a public forum on invocations after deciding to wait until the end of May.
Commissioners may want to dodge the controversial issue of if and how to say a prayer at the beginning of their meetings, but the public does not. It's hard to believe the only date available for the forum is after the primary election, and at the end of the school year as graduations are held and vacations begin.
In 2007, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Forsyth County for using sectarian prayer. A U.S. District Court judge recently agreed that Forsyth County violated the Constitution when commissioners invoked a particular deity's name during the invocation.
The Times-News wrote two articles in February about the decision, which included the county's policy of allowing commissioners or county staff to say prayers that sometimes invoke Jesus' name. Community response was strong, with people on all sides of the debate ready to sound off on how the county should handle prayer at its meetings. Instead, a forum was put off for more than three months, doing a disservice to community members as commissioners hope interest dies down.
In March, many residents came to the commissioners' meeting prepared to speak and were turned away. They were told a public hearing would be scheduled at a later date. At the April meeting, commissioners made the decision to wait until May 25 to hold the forum, claiming it was the only available date.
It's convenient the hearing is scheduled for after the primary, in which Chairman Bill Moyer faces an opponent. Pushing the hearing back allows Moyer to duck a controversial issue that might impact him at the polls.
It's good commissioners scheduled a hearing and picked a large venue at Blue Ridge Community College. But the time to hear the issue is now. Commissioners weren't elected to dodge controversy but to make decisions -- however they might turn out.
Ballfield use and maintenance
Commissioners did step up to the plate when it came to taking over the use and maintenance of the baseball field at BRCC. The demand is there and the timing is perfect -- spring sports are getting under way, and Jackson Park's ballfields are full long into the night.
Commissioners should make sure they understand the cost in the tight economy, however. The county will take over management of the field but will not pay BRCC anything to use it. County Manager Steve Wyatt said he doesn't have any maintenance cost estimates because the partnership just came up.
There are many serious needs the county must address in the next few months as it crafts its 2010-11 budget. This arrangement with BRCC shouldn't strain local funds.
The agreement should be a win-win, with the county getting more space in a good location at minimal cost while BRCC is removed of the maintenance burden now that it has eliminated its athletic program. County officials will create a memorandum of understanding with BRCC that outlines the details, and the county will take over scheduling and supervision.
The ballfield will be a huge asset to the county and its athletics program, provided the price is right.
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Harriman Public Library had a world of fun in the recently completed summer reading program.
"One World, Many Stories" was the theme of this year's program, which had 146 children registered. The children read 1,442 books, and the library had prize drawings during each program.
"The library is proud of all the children and their achievements," said Tammie Edwards, children's librarian. "Every child was a winner in having a good time reading and listening to great stories."
Radical Regeneration, a community event organized to inspire hope and friendship within Roane County and surrounding areas, will kick off at 3 p.m. Oct. 30 at Harriman Riverfront Park.
Organizers said the event is designed to ensure that anybody and everybody can be accepted they way they are.
Festivities will include things for all ages. Bounce houses, moon walks, face painting, playground, cotton candy and games are planned for younger children.
The roar of engines, mud, boulders and grit — these are the ingredients for lasting bonds, members of the Windrock ATV Club say.
The club, chartered in 1994, has around 150 members throughout the Southeast and is one of the largest ATV groups in the state.
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Clark of Lenoir City announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Kayla Parks, to Slade Evans.
He is the son of Scott Evans of Clarksville and Cheryl Howell of Linden.
The ceremony will be at 5 p.m. Oct. 1 at Grande Vista Bay, Rockwood.
The bride-elect is a graduate of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville with a degree in elementary education. She is a fifth-grade teacher at Barkers Mill Elementary School, Clarksville.
Brycelyn Steven Hennager celebrated his third birthday on Sept. 11.
He celebrated with a self-chosen fire-truck-themed party in Destin, Fla. His family said they felt this was a fitting tribute to those affected by the 9/11 tragedy.
He is the son of Steven and Krystal Hennager of Rockwood.
Grandparents are David and Carolyn Thomas of Rockwood and Ronnie and Tina Hennager of the Westel community near Rockwood.
Great-grandparents are Gene and Marthalee
Twin sisters Samantha and Savannah Taylor celebrated their fourth birthday on Aug. 17 in Michigan.
They are the daughters of Kyle and Tamala Taylor of Kingston.
Grandparents are Duane and Karen Sherman of Michigan, and Nancy Taylor of Rockwood and the late Bob Taylor.
The twins have a sister, Natasha; and a brother, Nickolas.
Editor's Note: Readers are cautioned that some names may be the same as, or similar to, other members of the community.
Sept. 21 – Timothy Darrell Francis, 32, 215 Orchard Road, Kingston: DUI, violation implied consent law, leaving scene of accident, fail to give proof of insurance, failure to appear and driving on revoked/suspended license. Total bond $8,750; court date Dec. 12.
• Bradley David Manis, 41, 417 Clifty St., Harriman: violation of probation. Bond $30,000; court date Oct. 24.
By WILLIAM E.N. HAWKINS
National newspaper week, Oct. 2-8, is a time to celebrate the unique role newspapers play in our society and dispel the myth that they are going away.
It may be difficult for some to see through the fog of recession and digital disruption, but if you look closely you'll see that newspapers remain healthy.
Despite the doomsayers, newspapers are actually growing readership as we find new ways to reach consumers.
While overall revenues are down, so are expenses and most newspapers remain profitable.
The people who work in the newspaper business are a lot like everybody else.
Some are a little quirkier, though. Take Sam Dunn, one of our pressmen.
Sam, a Harriman resident, is tall, bearded and strong — I guess you'd call him a man's man.
Yet a couple of weeks ago, when he found a hummingbird tangled up in cobwebs in the pressroom, Sam showed the gentle side so many of us have come to know.
He carefully removed the exhausted bird from its accidental trap.
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As a variation of a 52 week project initiated by Bemused Magazine, Russian photographer Dina Belenko has created a colossal panoramic still life. Each participant would create a new image each week, each one seamlessly flowing into the previous.July 21, 2016
A look inside "Cathedral of the Pines" published by Aperture
For five years the renowned artist, Gregory Crewdson, presented no new work to the public. Known for creating elaborately staged imagery with cinematic qualities, Crewdson retreated to a more reclusive existence deep in the rich forests of Western Massachusetts.May 21, 2016
The Murals of Greek Artist INO
Greek artist INO as been gracing the facades around the world with his monochromatic murals. His interests in graffiti, photography, typography, multimedia, hypermedia and graphic design, and his painting degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts inform his large public works, which he started in 2012.February 19, 2016
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Kristen Liu Wong and Luke Pelletier graciously allowed us a quick peek into the studio to show off what they have in store for Superchief Gallery on February 26th, 2016. In their first collaboration together they're completed 6 large paintings and a handful of solo drawings, so far. Having shown together at New Image gallery and both being recent LA transplants with similar artistic sensibilities, the team-up made sense.January 26, 2016
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On January 16th, New Image Art will present a solo exhibition with Bay Area artist Tracey Snelling. A multi layered sculptural practice including video, photography and object making, Tracey's work often evokes a sense of place and the various underlying narratives within that given space.January 11, 2016
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We are always curious that if we played this game on Instagram, just telling people to stop liking something at "500 Likes", would it work. We aren't going to do it. We assume people wouldn't follow the rules. But we are going to check out the new exhibition of staff favorites, Michelle Guintu and Kristen Liu-Wong, at New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles opening on December 19. The show is called "500 Likes."December 18, 2015


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I was asked to join the promotional team for the documentary film DESERT BAYOU on the same morning that I had decided it was time that I cut back from all the work I do. I told myself I had to learn to say "No." I have too many projects on my plate as it is. I need to scale back and do more quality work and not worry so much about quantity or exposure. Let's face it, I'm one of the most exposed writers on the Web. But I could not say no to "Desert Bayou." The devastation of New Orleans, the loss of a city I had loved and hated, was too close to my heart. This is a project I must do.
Once again, I must return to New Orleans. This time, I go as a flak for a film I consider both important and historic. This time, I go for the pre-release screening being done in partnership with the Film Buff Institute of Loyola University on 28 September, prior to our theatrical release on 5 October at the Village East theatre in New York City simultaneous to the opening in New Orleans on the same date.
Here's the back-story: Master P., one of the people featured in this documentary, had his family among the six hundred (600) New Orleans evacuees who found themselves at a desert National Guard training facility outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, immediately after the storm.
Still shocked from the aftermath of the storm, after spending days on the street in front of the Ernest Morial Convention Center, being herded into buses and driven to a plane, these people had no idea where they were being taken. After disembarking in the desert, they and their belongings were immediately searched — even though they were tired and hungry and had traveled to this undisclosed location for hours. Then they were subjected to not one, but three, criminal background checks. Three!
Then the realization kicked in: they were in the desert in Utah. Utah, considered one of the whitest states in the nation (approximate African-American population: 1%). One African-American resident of Salt Lake City featured in the film states that, before the arrival of the New Orleans evacuees, she only knew of nine other African-Americans in the whole city. This is where the story begins.
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It is not the story you expect.. Master P calls the tale historic. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, syndicated columnist, radio personality and host of The Learning Channel's "Shalom in the Home," calls the events in this documentary a defining commentary on America as a nation.
Rabbi Boteach lost his radio program at the Salt Lake City station that carried it in his efforts to bring healing to the situation and was instrumental in moving these African-Americans into a dialogue with the nearby Mormon community who had put up bureaucratic barriers into integrating them into the community.
I encourage you to give this film serious consideration. It opens in New Orleans and New York City in early October, 2007. Please go to http://desertbayoumovie.com and leave your comments. Please join our community and take action on the issues of housing, electricity, health care, mental health care and water — basic human needs — that still challenge the people of New Orleans. Share this information and this URL with your friends and colleagues.
Having written about New Orleans for almost a decade now, I am either moved to tears or sardonic laughter. It's that kind of city.
What I feel now is despair because I "talk" — via e-mail or on the telephone — with someone I know or love in New Orleans just about every day. That's the kind of people we are, us former and present New Orleanians. As my friend and colleague, Katy Rechdahl, who was at the Gambit Weekly and wrote about my wrongful imprisonment at Orleans Parish Prison and now writes for the New Orleans Times-Picayune commented for my book about our city, "There is just something sweet about the people here." That isn't said much in the national press.
Katy had her baby during the height of Hurricane Katrina. Thanks to the good offices of a nurse who evacuated her out of town, she was able to take the child to her sister's home in Arizona.
So many of us were spread so far. Katy to Arizona, me to North Carolina, my friend Tim Farley and his family to Ohio, Scott and his lady Tierney to Minnesota, and those six hundred (600) people to Utah. There is not a state in the Union — other than perhaps Alaska or Hawaii — where we were not sent or fled toward.
The word "Diaspora" certainly comes to mind. I certainly feel displaced and I have run into lots of people where I now reside, in Austin, Texas, from New Orleans who feel the same way.
So this sense of anger on our part — a sense of anger that was palpable to me from everyone I spoke with when I tried to return to New Orleans the first year after Katrina — abides with us. All I can remember from my last visit to New Orleans, in August of 2006, was the eerie feeling I had driving through once-thriving neighborhoods and asking myself, "Where are the people?" I might as well have been driving on some landscape on the surface of the moon…
The anger was there, the sadness, for those who had already returned, and it was so overwhelming, so all-encompassing, that I knew I did not have the strength to endure it.
Now, another year later, I plan to return — but with trepidation. While I know my mission is important, I also know that I am tearing the scab from an old wound. I return because the producers of the film have committed to establish a grant program to provide funds directly to people already rebuilding in New Orleans or people who plan to return home. We are doing this through the Sweet Home New Orleans Foundation. In addition, when you'll visit desertbayoumovie.com, you'll see there's a very strong community action component to what we are doing. I hope you'll take part. I'm proud to return under those circumstances. I am doing my part to rebuild the city I loved and hated.
I want to see the Mardi Gras Indians, a part of history, back in New Orleans and thriving. I want to see my old neighborhood, the Ninth Ward, rebuilt. I want some of what we have lost to be reclaimed. I don't want the blatant racism back, though, the thuggery or over-the-top level of violent deaths. That's where my hate of that city comes in.
So I guess what I saw in "Desert Bayou," while parts of it brought tears to my eyes, was so important. There is a message of hope and healing in this film that I want to share with everyone I know. I don't agree with Curtis and Clifford — the heads of the two families in this film — that we cannot return to New Orleans. I do agree that their stories are important American stories that everyone should see, discover, discuss and then decide what actions need to be taken.
My own personal action is to help bring artists and musicians back to the Crescent City. You have to decide what action you need to take — on housing, potable water, mental health care. It's your call. This is our chance to define ourselves as Americans.
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Talk Fusion Talkfusion.com Talk fusion rip-offs. Unprofessional and unethical services. Do not do business with these scams Brandon Florida
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*General Comment: Rude?
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At Talk Fusion, we are all about YOU, the customer. Our award-winning support team is always ready and available to answer your questions and help you. We pride ourselves on our high-quality communication and ethical treatment of our customers. Not only do we have an A rating from the Better Business Bureau, but we are also a BBB-accredited business.
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I'm sorry to hear that you feel that Talk Fusion employees "are jerks who are the rudist people [you've] dealt with" and that we "are the jerks to go to if you want to get ripped off." While I can't speak directly to your situation without more information, I'd like to clarify that Talk Fusion:
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More Shin Megami Tensei IV. Seriously, I'm trying to burn through so I can continue our Review Logs and have a final verdict on release day for all you eager fans. Ummm, possibly a little Animal Crossing: New Leaf with Nick (and Keri too maybe).
Other than that I have a few more projects in the works, including some smaller games waiting in the wings for review. If you told me it was July right now, I'd be like "ha, it's not July, look at all these games I'm playing" and then I'd probably try to swat something out of your hands as an attack on your stupidity. Get away from me stupidity!
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The Kerala High Court on Monday sought the view of the Centre and the state government on a petition seeking a directive to the Chief Secretary and the State Police Chief to grant effective police protection to the Chief Minister to ensure his free and safe movement across the state for discharging his constitutional duties.
The petitioner also sought a directive to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Law and Justice to issue guidelines based on the Model Code of Conduct framed by the Election Commission for political parties and candidates to ensure that parties do not impede the discharge of governmental duties by resorting to illegal obstruction of the Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues, public servants and destruction of public property.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice A M Shaffique issued the notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Law and Justice, the State Chief Secretary and State Police Chief.
The petition was filed by Roshini Mohan Vettath of Panampilly Nagar here and two others. The petitioners also sought a directive to the police to take steps against the illegal protests and obstruction being caused to the Chief Minister by the LDF. The petitioners pointed out that the Opposition parties, led by the LDF, had proclaimed that they will obstruct the movement of the CM.
"The Chief Minister was recently attacked in Kannur, in furtherance of the obstruction by the Opposition parties, resulting in his hospitalisation and cancellation of official programmes. He also had to cancel his visit to Idukki," the petition stated.
The Chief Secretary and the DGP have failed in providing effective protection to the elected head of the state government, the petition added.
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"In the termite gut, you have several hundred different species of microbes that live within a millimeter of one another. We know certain microbes are present in the gut, and we know microbes are responsible for certain functions, but until now, we didn't have a good way of knowing which microbes are doing what," says Jared Leadbetter, professor of environmental microbiology at Caltech, in whose laboratory much of the research was performed. He is also an author of a paper about the work published the week of September 16 in the online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Acetogenesis is the production of acetate (a source of nutrition for termites) from the carbon dioxide and hydrogen generated by gut protozoa as they break down decaying wood. In their study of "who is doing what and where," Leadbetter and his colleagues searched the entire pool of termite gut microbes to identify specific genes from organisms responsible for acetogenesis.
The researchers began by sifting through the microbes' RNA—genetic information that can provide a snapshot of the genes active at a certain point in time. Using RNA from the total pool of termite gut microbes, they searched for actively transcribed formate dehydrogenase (FDH) genes, known to encode a protein necessary for acetogenesis. Next, using a method called multiplex microfluidic digital polymerase chain reaction (digital PCR), the researchers sequestered the previously unstudied individual microbes into tiny compartments to identify the actual microbial species carrying each of the FDH genes. Some of the FDH genes were found in types of bacteria known as spirochetes—a previously predicted source of acetogenesis. Yet it appeared that these spirochetes alone could not account for all of the acetate produced in the termite gut.
Initially, the Caltech researchers were unable to identify the microorganism expressing the single most active FDH gene in the gut. However, the first authors on the study, Adam Rosenthal, a postdoctoral scholar in biology at Caltech, and Xinning Zhang (PhD '10, Environmental Science and Engineering), noticed that this gene was more abundant in the portion of the gut extract containing wood chunks and larger microbes, like protozoans. After analyzing the chunkier gut extract, they discovered that the single most active FDH gene was encoded by a previously unstudied species from a group of microbes known as the deltaproteobacteria. This was the first evidence that a substantial amount of acetate in the gut may be produced by a non-spirochete.
Because the genes from this deltaproteobacterium were found in the chunky particulate matter of the termite gut, the researchers thought that perhaps the newly identified microbe attaches to the surface of one of the chunks. To test this hypothesis, the researchers used a color-coded visualization method called hybridization chain reaction-fluorescent in situ hybridization, or HCR-FISH.
The technique—developed in the laboratory of Niles Pierce, professor of applied and computational mathematics and bioengineering at Caltech, and a coauthor on the PNAS study—allowed the researchers to simultaneously "paint" cells expressing both the active FDH gene and a gene identifying the deltoproteobacterium with different fluorescent colors simultaneously. "The microfluidics experiment suggested that the two colors should be expressed in the same location and in the same tiny cell," Leadbetter says. And, indeed, they were. "Through this approach, we were able to actually see where the new deltaproteobacterium resided. As it turns out, the cells live on the surface of a very particular hydrogen-producing protozoan."
This association between the two organisms makes sense based on what is known about the complex food web of the termite gut, Leadbetter says. "Here you have a large eukaryotic single cell—a protozoan—which is making hydrogen as it degrades wood, and you have these much smaller hydrogen-consuming deltaproteobacteria attached to its surface," he says. "So, this new acetogenic bacterium is snuggled up to its source of hydrogen just as close as it can get."
This intimate relationship, Leadbetter says, might never have been discovered relying on phylogenetic inference—the standard method for matching a function to a specific organism. "Using phylogenetic inference, we say, 'We know a lot about this hypothetical organism's relatives, so without ever seeing the organism, we're going to make guesses about who it is related to," he says. "But with the techniques in this study, we found that our initial prediction was wrong. Importantly, we have been able to determine the specific organism responsible and a location of the mystery organism, both of which appear to be extremely important in the consumption of hydrogen and turning it into a product the insect can use." These results not only identify a new source for acetogenesis in the termite gut—they also reveal the limitations of making predictions based exclusively on phylogenetic relationships.
Other Caltech coauthors on the paper titled "Localizing transcripts to single cells suggests an important role of uncultured deltaproteobacteria in the termite gut hydrogen economy," are graduate student Kaitlyn S. Lucey (environmental science and engineering), Elizabeth A. Ottesen (PhD '08, biology), graduate student Vikas Trivedi (bioengineering), and research scientist Harry M. T. Choi (PhD '10, bioengineering). This work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Programmable Molecular Technology Center within the Beckman Institute at Caltech, a Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Center Bioengineering scholarship, and the Center for Environmental Microbial Interactions at Caltech.
The California Institute of Technology, in a move that creates an academic division unlike any other among its peer institutions, has combined the disciplines of biology and biological engineering into a new Division of Biology and Biological Engineering (BBE). The division, formally approved by the Caltech Board of Trustees in April, expands Caltech's Division of Biology, which was founded in 1928 by Nobel Prize–winning geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan. Biological engineering focuses on using a "bottom up" approach to manipulate biological substrates, such as genes, proteins, and cells, to produce a given outcome or to encourage fundamental discovery—as opposed to the "top down" engineering of chips, medical implants, or other macroscopic devices.
"Biological engineering represents an engineering discipline that is based on the fundamental science of biology, and the formation of BBE further highlights Caltech's distinctive nature, as we tend to be extremely quantitative in our approach," says Stephen Mayo, William K. Bowes Jr. Foundation Chair of the division and Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry. "Although other schools have biological engineering programs within their schools of engineering, none have a college or school in which biological engineering is integrated directly with biology, so they can enhance each other—allowing those people who are doing engineering to interact more closely with those who are doing fundamental work and obtaining basic knowledge. The potential synergy is powerful and important."
"The creation of BBE is a critical part of an effort at Caltech to enhance bioengineering and biological sciences and to continue Caltech's position at the forefront of these fields," says Edward M. Stolper, Caltech's provost and interim president.
As part of this change, a total of 11 professors have been added to BBE from other Caltech divisions; they represent research areas spanning genetic engineering, translational medicine, synthetic biology, molecular programming, and more. The restructured division will consist of three administrative groupings: biology, biological engineering, and neurobiology. Caltech's undergraduate program in bioengineering, previously administered by the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (EAS), will be managed by BBE, and the existing bioengineering graduate program also will move to BBE.
The division will manage the existing biology graduate and undergraduate options; a newly established neurobiology graduate option; the biochemistry and molecular biophysics (BMB) graduate option in collaboration with the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (CCE); and the computation and neural systems (CNS) graduate option in collaboration with EAS. Caltech's Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center, founded in 2008 through an $18 million gift from the Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation, will remain the campus hub for bioengineering activities and will continue to be jointly administered by BBE, EAS, and CCE.
"The formation of BBE is a reflection of the diversity and breadth of the activities in biological sciences and engineering at Caltech—from the structure and function of proteins at the atomic level to developing nanoprobe electrodes that can simultaneously measure the activity of thousands of neurons in the brain," says Mayo. "Putting these activities into one division increases the potential and the pace for providing transformative solutions to some of the biggest problems in science, medicine, and health."
The last time a division at Caltech changed its name was in 1970, when the Division of Geological Sciences became the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences.
Over the next five years, WormBase—a Caltech-led, multi-institutional effort to make genetic information about nematodes, or roundworms, freely available to the world—will receive $14.8 million in additional funding from the National Institutes of Health. As many as 1 million nematode species are thought to live on Earth, and many are pests or parasites that ravage crops and spread diseases. They also happen to share many genes that are found in humans. Therefore, the squirmy creatures are intensively researched by labs around the world.
The WormBase project began in 2000 with the original goal of creating an online clearinghouse for data related to the most widely studied nematode, the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. The project's website (www.wormbase.org) now hosts genomic data for more than 50 nematodes as well as vast amounts of other experimental data. In fact, about 1,200 scientific papers are added to the searchable database every year. And with more than 1,000 laboratories currently registered as users, WormBase has become an invaluable tool for the biomedical and agricultural research communities.
"WormBase has made it much easier for bench researchers to access a lot of information that they need much more rapidly. That accelerates research," says Paul Sternberg, the Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology at Caltech and leader of the WormBase project. "It has enabled studies that just would not have been possible without all of this information being available in a single place."
The bioinformatics resource serves a number of different communities. One of those is the group of scientists working with less-studied nematode species. "A lot of the research comes from individual researchers studying a specific problem. They generate a lot of facts and observations along the way; that information, if you aggregate it, ends up being quite valuable and extensive," Sternberg explains. "So, WormBase collects those bits of information and stores them in one place. It ends up being more than the sum of the parts."
WormBase also serves basic biomedical researchers who have used the database to investigate everything from cancer genes and axon growth to aging and kidney disease. Finally, WormBase is helpful for those scientists who study disease-causing nematodes and those species that infect and wreak havoc on crops and livestock.
Going forward, the WormBase project hopes to help researchers understand in greater detail the mechanisms through which nematode genes work together in pathways by making certain types of data more accessible and richer. "We have the parts list," Sternberg says. "Now the question is, how do all of the parts really work together to make the intricate mechanisms?"
WormBase is also working with the organizers of similar databases for other model organisms—such as the fruit fly and the mouse—that share many genes with nematodes. They are trying to align the databases, in terms of the formats they use and their interfaces, so that researchers can easily search all of them. So, for example, researchers studying a human gene who want information about that gene's counterparts in the worm or fruit fly would be able to switch between the databases quickly and easily. "We are also sharing the development of text-mining software that allows us to extract information from papers more efficiently," Sternberg says.
WormBase is an international consortium led by Caltech. Current collaborators include the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research in Toronto, Canada, and the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, England.
During the past century, programmable technologies evolved from spinning gears and vacuum tubes to transistors and microchips. Now, a group of Caltech researchers and their colleagues at the University of Washington, Harvard University, and UC San Francisco are exploring how biologically important molecules—like DNA, RNA, and proteins—could be the next generation of programmable devices.
Erik Winfree, professor of computer science, computation, and neural systems, and bioengineering, along with collaborators at Caltech and the University of Washington, began the Molecular Programming Project (MPP) in 2008, as part of an NSF Expeditions in Computing award to develop practices for programming biomolecules—much like a computer code—to perform designated functions. Over the past five years, the researchers have programmed DNA to carry out a number of tasks, from solving basic math and pattern-recognition problems to more mechanical tasks like programming RNA and DNA to selectively amplify fluorescent signals for biological microscopy. Through these initial experiments, the researchers have shown that it is possible to systematically encode specialized tasks within DNA molecules.
"Computer science gave us this idea that many tasks can actually be done with different types of devices," Winfree says. For example, a 19th-century cash register and a 21st-century computer can both be used to calculate sums, though they perform the same task very differently. At first glance, writing a computer program and programming a DNA molecule may seem like very different endeavors, but "each one provides a systematic way of implementing automated behaviors, and they are both based on similar principles of information technology," Winfree says.
Expanding the team to include five additional faculty who bring expertise in structural and dynamic DNA nanotechnology, synthetic biology, computer-aided design, programming languages, and compilers, Winfree and his colleagues recently received a second Expeditions in Computing award to take their work in molecular programming to the next level: from proof-of-principle demonstrations to putting the technology in the hands of users in biology, chemistry, physics, and materials science.
The researchers aim to use molecular programming to establish general-purpose, reliable, and easy-to-use methods for engineering complex nanoscale systems from biomolecules. In the hands of users, these methods could be used to create novel self-assembling electronic and optical devices, powerful nanoscale tools for the study of biology, and programmable molecular circuits for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. In one application, the researchers hope to program DNA molecules to carry out recognition and logical circuitry for exquisitely targeted drug delivery, thus reducing drug side effects and increasing efficacy.
Today, the largest synthetic molecular programs—human-designed sequences of the A, T, C, and G bases that make up DNA—contain on the order of 60,000 bases. "That's comparable to the amount of RAM memory in my first computer, a 1983 Apple II+," says Winfree. Designed systems in the future will only become more complex, a challenge that MPP researchers aim to tackle by approaching biological systems with something computer scientists call the abstraction hierarchy.
"In some sense computer science is the art of managing complexity, because you design things that have billions of components, but a single person simply cannot understand all the details and interactions," he says. "Abstraction is a way of hiding a component's details while making it easy to incorporate into higher-order components—which, themselves, can also be abstracted. For example, you don't need to know the details of a multiplication circuit in order to use it to make a circuit for factoring." In the molecular world, the task might be different—like transporting a molecular cargo to a designated location—but abstraction is still essential for combining simpler systems into larger ones to perform tasks of greater complexity.
"Over the next several decades, the MPP seeks to develop the principles and practice for a new engineering discipline that will enable the function of molecules to be programmed with the ease and rigor that computers are today, while achieving the sophistication, complexity, and robustness evident in the programmable DNA, RNA, and protein machinery of biology," says Niles Pierce, professor of applied and computational mathematics and bioengineering at Caltech and member of the MPP.
To integrate these fields, the MPP has brought together an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, chemists, electrical engineers, physicists, roboticists, mathematicians, and bioengineers—all of whom have a strong research interest in the intersection of information, biology, and the molecular world. The team will explore the potential of molecular programming from many perspectives.
"Because of the diverse expertise that is required to work on these challenges, the participating students and faculty come from an unusual array of fields," Pierce says. "It's a lot of fun to be in a room with this group of people to see where the discussions lead."
The 2013 Expeditions award was granted for the proposal "Molecular Programming Architectures, Abstractions, Algorithms, and Applications." Winfree and Pierce are joined on the project by four other collaborators at Caltech: Jehoshua (Shuki) Bruck, Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering; Richard Murray, Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering; Lulu Qian, assistant professor of bioengineering; and Paul Rothemund, senior research associate in bioengineering, computing and mathematical sciences, and computation and neural systems. Other collaborators include Eric Klavins and Georg Seelig from the University of Washington, Peng Yin and William Shih from Harvard, and Shawn Douglas from UC San Francisco.
When certain cells in our bodies are missing or nonfunctional, the only current options are to treat the symptoms with drugs or try to acquire transplants. But what if cells in our own bodies could be transformed to take on the missing functions? What if we could convert cells from other organs to function as neurons after a stroke; cardiomyocytes to address heart disease; gland cells to address endocrine diseases, or cartilaginous cells to address joint deterioration? This may be a real possibility thanks to funding from the Caltech Innovation Initiative, a philanthropically funded internal grant program designed to provide research funds to high-risk but potentially high-reward projects that could produce disruptive technologies with practical applications in the marketplace.
Working with Caltech colleague Isabelle Peter and Yong Zhu of the start-up Vivoscript, Caltech biologist Eric Davidson applied seed funds from the Caltech Innovation Initiative to test experimentally a new theory of cell-fate transformation that he and Peter codeveloped. The theory posits that cells in a living patient can be converted to work as completely different types of cells. Davidson and colleagues have transformed liver cells into cells that function like pancreatic cells, at least to the extent that they produce insulin.
The work, inspired by the group's studies of gene regulatory networks in sea urchin embryos, begins with putting suites of protein molecules called transcription factors near the cells targeted for transformation. These proteins have been engineered in a proprietary way, in collaboration with Vivoscript, so that they will be taken up by cells and will travel into the nuclei. The new proteins control cellular activity by regulating gene expression. Researchers want to be able to predict the complete suite of proteins needed to durably reproduce the gene expression — and resulting normal functions — of one kind of cell in a different original cell.
These new possibilities for therapies based on cell transformation avoid the expense and hazards associated with use of genetically transformed cells or in vitro differentiated stem cells.
If the approach is generalizable and predictable, it could answer the urgent need for a safe, inexpensive way to replace damaged or missing cells. Caltech has applied for patent protection. Davidson's next step is to demonstrate the degree to which the conversion of liver cells into pancreatic cells works.
To expand its involvement in online learning, the California Institute of Technology will offer courses through the online education platform edX beginning this October.
The edX course platform is an online learning initiative launched in 2012 by founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Caltech's rigorous online course offerings will join those of 28 other prestigious colleges and universities in the edX platform's "xConsortium."
This new partnership with edX comes one year after Caltech offered three courses through the online learning platform Coursera in fall 2012. The Institute will now offer courses through both platforms.
"Coursera and edX have some foundational differences which are of interest to the faculty," says Cassandra Horii, director of teaching and learning programs at Caltech. Both organizations offer their courses at no cost to participating students; edX, however, operates as a nonprofit and plans to partner with only a small number of institutions, whereas Coursera—a for-profit, self-described "social entrepreneurship company"—partners with many institutions and state university systems.
The two platforms also emphasize different learning strategies, says Horii. "Coursera has a strong organizational principle built around lectures, so a lot of the interactivity is tied right into the video," she says. Though edX still enables the use of video lectures, a student can customize when he or she would like to take quizzes and use learning resources. In addition, edX allows faculty to embed a variety of learning materials—like textbook chapters, discussions, diagrams, and tables—directly into the platform's layout.
In the future, data collected from both platforms could provide valuable information about how students best learn certain material, especially in the sciences. "Caltech occupies this advanced, really rigorous scientific education space, and in general our interest in these online courses is to maintain that rigor and quality," Horii says. "So, with these learning data, we have some potential contributions to make to the general understanding of learning in this niche that we occupy."
Even before joining edX and Coursera, Caltech had already become an example in the growing trend of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Yaser Abu-Mostafa, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, developed his own MOOC on machine learning, called "Learning from Data," and offered it on YouTube and iTunes U beginning in April 2012.
Since its debut, Abu-Mostafa's MOOC has reached more than 200,000 participants, and it received mention in the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition—the latest edition of an annual report highlighting important trends in higher education. The course will be offered again in fall 2013 on iTunes U, and is now also open for enrollment in edX.
Although Caltech is now actively exploring several outlets for online learning, the Institute's commitment to educational outreach is not a recent phenomenon. In the early 1960s, Caltech physicist Richard Feynman reorganized the Institute's introductory physics course, incorporating contemporary research topics and making the course more engaging for students. His lectures were recorded and eventually incorporated into a widely popular physics book, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, which has sold millions of copies in a dozen languages.
Continuing in the tradition set by Feynman, the MOOCs at Caltech seek to provide a high-quality learning environment that is rigorous but accessible. "No dumbing down of courses for popular consumption . . . no talking over people's heads either; at Caltech, we explain things well because we understand them well," adds Abu-Mostafa.
More information on Caltech's online learning opportunities is available on the Online Education website.


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