Tommy Gold, 1920-2004

Our endlessly creative and provocative Cornell colleague Thomas Gold passed away on 22 June at age 84. Tommy pioneered thinking about abiogenic methane and the deep hot biosphere. He opened…

St. Andrews honorary doctorate for Jesse Ausubel

On 21 June 2012 St. Andrews University (Scotland) confers an honorary doctorate on Jesse Ausubel. Jesse thanks 35 years of wonderful colleagues at the NAS/NAE, IIASA, Rockefeller, Sloan, and around…

CoML Highlights 2008

…are beautiful beyond imagination. d) The power to see much more in the oceans brings enormous responsibilities to use the power wisely. A Caracas newspaper includes quotes from Jesse: https://internacional.eluniversal.com/2008/11/09/ten_ava_revelan-origen-antar_09A2119843.shtml…

Barcode Human Evolution

Mark Stoeckle and David Thaler’s (former RU colleague, now at University of Basel) paper on what DNA barcodes reveal about human evolution and vice versa, entitled “Bridging two scholarly islands…

Big Green Energy Machines

Jesse’s Big Green Energy Machines, based on his June 2004 talk about ZEPPs and the Supergrid at the Millennium Technology Prize symposium in Finland, is the cover story in the…

A Scalable Method for Analysis and Display of DNA Sequences

Together with colleagues at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, we report a new mathematical approach to the genetic structure of biodiversity, using indicator vectors calculated from short DNA sequences. Sirovich…

2018 Potato Summit

Jesse Ausubel will present the keynote address to the 2018 Potato Business Summit of the United Potato Growers of America at Potato Expo, 8am Wednesday 10 January. The slides and…

Biology in Art

The Leonardo Da Vinci DNA Project opened our eyes to the possibilities (inevitability!) of exciting new discoveries by integrating new tools of genetics, molecular biology, and microbiology into studies of…