TalkScience at the British Library

Discuss scientific topics with like-minded people at the British Library's TalkScience evenings.
TalkScience@BL are café scientifique style events where an expert provides a short yet provocative introduction, followed by a discussion amongst the audience.

The next event is Patently Obvious? on 4th March
Scientists have long used patents to protect their inventions and allow them opportunities to commercialise their work. However, recent attempts to patent human gene sequences have raised questions over whether a sequence of DNA is an invention or a discovery and highlighted some of the challenges in assessing the patentability of biomedical developments.

More details and booking:
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/experthelp/science/talkscience/talkscience.html

Filling up fast!

There are only 10 places left on our Web Of Knowledge workshop on 15th Feb, don't miss out on learning to use this powerful search tool - book your place here http://www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck/global/workshop_timetable?orgunit=LIB

See what previous participants have said about our workshops:

"This was a really very well delivered clear workshop "

"Very very good session - will be really useful"

"Very well-structured, thought through and practical workshop "

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Workshop on Web Of Knowledge

Our Saturday workshop programme for this term is now available.
A useful one for Science students is the Introduction to the Web Of Knowledge (now called Web Of Science)  workshop on Feb 15th. This database enable you to search the contents of over 6,000 science journals and 5,000 biomedical journals by topic or author and also allows you to find articles that have cited useful articles that you have found.
There is also a workshop on how to keep up to date in your subject area (useful if you are doing a long project or dissertation).
There are two workshops on protecting and promoting yourself on the internet and social media - Who Am I? My Digital Footprint and Manage Your Online Reputation.
Book your place at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck/global/workshop_timetable?orgunit=LIB
All sessions will take place in the Library seminar room on Level 1 of the Library. We look forward to seeing you at a workshop.

Web Of Science - downtime and redesign

The Web Of Science databases will be intermittently unavailable from Sunday January 12, 2014, 2pm and ending by Monday, January 13, 2014 at 2am.
This downtime is to allow for a major upgrade to the interface, which will be completely redesigned.

More details on the changes to follow next week, but here's a sneak preview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulfu0njSZN0

Some new ebooks on Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences

Click on the titles to access them - you will need your Birkbeck IT username and password.

Roitt's essential immunology: Roitt, Ivan M. Delves, Peter J., Martin, Seamus J., 1966-, Burton, Dennis R

Biotechnology: academic cell update: Clark, David P. Pazdernik, Nanette Jean.

Trace evidence analysis more cases in mute witnesses: Houck, Max M





Immunotherapy in transplantation principles and practice: Kaplan, Bruce, 1958-, Burckart, Gilbert J., Lakkis, Fadi
      Introduction to environmental analysis: Reeve, Roger. N.

Carbonate reservoirs porosity and diagenesis in a sequence stratigraphic framework: Moore, Clyde H. Wade, William J

Mid-latitude slope deposits (cover beds): Kleber, Arno, Terhorst, Brigit.

Latest Research from Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences researchers

BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online - is a database of research papers deposited by Birkbeck researchers and academics. Here are some recent papers, available in full text, that have been uploaded by members of staff from the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences. 

Click on the links to see the full papers, but bear in mind that some of these may be the author manuscripts, not the final published versions. You will need your ITS account to log in.

 

You can also follow BIRON on Twitter to get the latest additions: https://twitter.com/BIROnbbk

• de Gosson, M. and Hiley, Basil (2013) Short-time quantum propagator and Bohmian trajectorie. Physics Letters A 377 (42), pp. 3005-3008. ISSN 0375-9601. (In Press)
• Seghedi, I. and Downes, Hilary (2011) Geochemistry and tectonic development of Cenozoic magmatism in the Carpathian–Pannonian region. Gondwana Research 20 (4), pp. 655-672. ISSN 1342-937X.
• Upton, B.G.J. and Downes, Hilary and Kirstein, L.A. and Bonadiman, C. and Hill, P.G. and Ntaflos, T. (2011) The lithospheric mantle and lower crust-mantle relationships under Scotland: a xenolithic perspective. Journal of the Geological Society 168 (4), pp. 873-886. ISSN 0016-7649.
• Hudson-Edwards, Karen A. and Wright, K. (2011) Computer simulations of the interactions of the (012) and (001) surfaces of jarosite with Al, Cd, Cu2+ and Zn. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75 (1), pp. 52-62. ISSN 0016-7037.
• Attal, M. and Cowie, P.A. and Whittaker, A.C. and Hobley, D. and Tucker, G.E. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2011) Testing fluvial erosion models using the transient response of bedrock rivers to tectonic forcing in the Apennines, Italy. Journal of Geophysical Research 116 (F2005), ISSN 0148-0227.
• Hudson-Edwards, Karen A. and Archer, J. (2011) Geochemistry of As-, F- and B-bearing waters in and around San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina, and implications for drinking and irrigation water quality. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 112 , pp. 276-284. ISSN 0375-6742.
• Joy, K.H. and Crawford, Ian A. and Russell, S.S. and Kearsley, A.T. (2010) Lunar meteorite regolith breccias: an in situ study of impact melt composition using LA-ICP-MS with implications for the composition of the lunar crust. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 45 (6), pp. 917-946. ISSN 1086-9379.
• Seghedi, I. and Maţenco, L. and Downes, Hilary and Mason, P.R.D. and Szakács, A. and Pécskay, Z. (2010) Tectonic significance of changes in post-subduction Pliocene-Quaternary magmatism in the south east part of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region. Tectonophysics 502 (1-2), pp. 146-157. ISSN 0040-1951.
• Barrett, J.E. and Taylor, K.G. and Hudson-Edwards, Karen A. and Charnock, J.M. (2010) Solid-phase speciation of Pb in urban road dust sediment: a XANES and EXAFS study. Environmental Science & Technology 44 (8), pp. 2940-2946. ISSN 0013-936X.
• Cvetkovic, V. and Downes, Hilary and Hock, V. and Prelevic, D. and Lazarov, M. (2010) Mafic alkaline metasomatism in the lithosphere underneath East Serbia: evidence from the study of xenoliths and the host alkali basalts. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 337 , pp. 213-239. ISSN 0305-8719.

Latest research from Birkbeck Biological Sciences researchers

BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online - is a database of research papers deposited by Birkbeck researchers and academics. Here are the papers, available in full text, that have been uploaded by members of staff from the department of Biological Sciences this year.
Click on the links to see the full papers, but bear in mind that some of these may be the author manuscripts, not the final published versions. You will need your ITS account to log in.

You can also follow BIRON on Twitter to get the latest additions: https://twitter.com/BIROnbbk

• O’Reilly, A.O. and Cole, Ambrose R. and Lopes, J.L.S. and Lampert, A. and Wallace, Bonnie A. (2014) Chaperone-mediated native folding of a β-scorpion toxin in the periplasm of E.coli. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects 1840 (1), pp. 10-15. ISSN 0304-4165. (In Press)
• Waudby, Christopher A. and Launay, H. and Cabrita, L.D. and Christodoulou, John (2013) Protein folding on the ribosome studied using NMR spectroscopy. Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 74 , pp. 57-75. ISSN 0079-6565.
• Bagneris, Claire and DeCaen, P.G. and Hall, B.A. and Naylor, Claire E. and Clapham, D.E. and Kay, C.W.M. and Wallace, Bonnie A. (2013) Role of the C-terminal domain in the structure and function of tetrameric sodium channels. Nature Communications 4 , 2465. ISSN 2041-1723.
• Redzej, Adam and Ilangovan, Aravindan and Lang, S. and Gruber, C.J. and Topf, Maya and Zangger, K. and Zechner, E.L. and Waksman, Gabriel (2013) Structure of a translocation signal domain mediating conjugative transfer by Type IV secretion systems. Molecular Microbiology 89 (2), pp. 324-333. ISSN 0950-382X.
• Woollett, Benjamin and Whitmore, Lee and Janes, R.W. and Wallace, Bonnie A. (2013) ValiDichro: a website for validating and quality control of protein circular dichroism spectra. Nucleic Acids Research 41 (W1), W417-W421. ISSN 0305-1048.
• Lopes, J.L.S. and Orcia, D. and Araujo, A.P.U. and DeMarco, R. and Wallace, Bonnie A. (2013) Folding factors and partners for the intrinsically disordered protein Micro-Exon Gene 14 (MEG-14). Biophysical Journal 104 (11), pp. 2512-2520. ISSN 0006-3495.
• Hawksworth, David L. and McNeill, J. and de Beer, Z.W. and Wingfield, M.J. (2013) Names of fungal species with the same epithet applied to different morphs: how to treat them. IMA Fungus 4 (1), pp. 53-56. ISSN 2210-6340.
• Motta, A. and Huyet, Jessica and Naylor, Claire E. and Savva, Christos G. and Gibert, M. and Popoff, M.R. and Basak, Ajit K. (2013) Structural insights into Clostridium perfringens delta toxin pore formation. PLoS ONE 8 (6), e66673. ISSN 1932-6203.
• Miles, Andrew J. and Fedosova, N.U. and Hoffmann, S.V. and Wallace, Bonnie A. and Esmann, M. (2013) Stabilisation of Na,K-ATPase structure by the cardiotonic steroid ouabain. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 435 (2), pp. 300-305. ISSN 0006-291X.
• Bokori-Brown, M. and Kokkinidou, M.C. and Savva, Christos G. and Fernandes da Costa, S.P. and Naylor, Claire E. and Cole, Ambrose R. and Moss, David S. and Basak, Ajit K. and Titball, R.W. (2013) Clostridium perfringensepsilon toxin H149A mutant as a platform for receptor binding studies. Protein Science 22 (5), pp. 650-659. ISSN 0961-8368.
• Riou, P. and Kjær, S. and Garg, R. and Purkiss, Andrew G. and George, R. and Cain, R.J. and Bineva, G. and Reymond, N. and McColl, B. and Thompson, A.J. and O’Reilly, N. and McDonald, Neil Q. and Parker, P.J. and Ridley, A.J. (2013) 14-3-3 Proteins Interact with a Hybrid Prenyl-Phosphorylation Motif to Inhibit G Proteins. Cell 153 (3), pp. 640-653. ISSN 0092-8674.
• Rivera-Calzada, A. and Fronzes, Remi and Savva, Christos G. and Chandran, Vidya and Lian, Pei W. and Laeremans, T. and Pardon, E. and Steyaert, J. and Remaut, Han and Waksman, Gabriel and Orlova, Elena V. (2013) Structure of a bacterial type IV secretion core complex at subnanometre resolution. The EMBO Journal 32 (8), pp. 1195-1204. ISSN 1460-4189.
• Ulmschneider, Martin B. and Bagneris, Claire and McCusker, Emily C. and DeCaen, P.G. and Delling, M. and Clapham, D.E. and Ulmschneider, J.P. and Wallace, Bonnie A. (2013) Molecular dynamics of ion transport through the open conformation of a bacterial voltage-gated sodium channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (16), pp. 6364-6369. ISSN 0027-8424.
• Thompson, Katherine C. and Jones, S.H. and Rennie, A.R. and King, M.D. and Ward, A.D. and Hughes, Brian R. and Lucas, C.O.M. and Campbell, R.A. and Hughes, A.V. (2013) Degradation and rearrangement of a lung surfactant lipid at the air–water interface during exposure to the pollutant gas ozone. Langmuir 29 (14), pp. 4594-4602. ISSN 0743-7463.
• Tarr, Sarah J. and Cryar, Adam and Thalassinos, Konstantinos and Haldar, K. and Osborne, Andrew R. (2013) The C-terminal portion of the cleaved HT motif is necessary and sufficient to mediate export of proteins from the malaria parasite into its host cell. Molecular Microbiology 87 (4), pp. 835-850. ISSN 0950-382X.
• Atherton, Joseph and Houdusse, A. and Moores, Carolyn A. (2013) MAPping out distribution routes for kinesin couriers. Biology of the Cell , ISSN 0248-4900. (In Press)
• Guzman, Juan D. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Gupta, Antima and Birchall, K. and Mwaigwisya, S. and Saxty, B. and McHugh, T.D. and Gibbons, S. and Malkinson, J. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2013) Antitubercular specific activity of ibuprofen and the other 2-arylpropanoic acids using the HT-SPOTi whole-cell phenotypic assay. BMJ Open 3 (6), e002672. ISSN 2044-6055.
• Lang, Peter F. and Smith, Barry C. (2013) Methods of calculating ionization energies of multielectron (five or more) isoelectronic atomic ions. The Scientific World Journal 2013 , pp. 1-10. ISSN 1537-744X.
• Limon, G. and Lewis, Elisa G. and Chang, Y.-M. and Ruiz, H. and Balanza, M.E. and Guitian, J. (2013) Using mixed methods to investigate factors influencing reporting of livestock diseases: a case study among smallholders in Bolivia. Preventive Veterinary Medicine , ISSN 0167-5877. (In Press)
• Munshi, Tulika and Gupta, Antima and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Guzman, Juan D. and Gibbons, S. and Keep, Nicholas H. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2013) Characterisation of ATP-Dependent Mur Ligases Involved in the Biogenesis of Cell Wall Peptidoglycan in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS One 8 (3), e60143. ISSN 1932-6203.
• Temussi, P.A. and Waudby, Christopher A. and Camilloni, C. and Fitzpatrick, A.W.P. and Cabrita, L.D. and Dobson, C.M. and Vendruscolo, M. and Christodoulou, John (2013) In-cell NMR characterization of the secondary structure populations of a disordered conformation of α-Synuclein within E. coli cells. PLoS ONE 8 (8), e72286. ISSN 1932-6203.