Science and Diplomacy
…Baghdad faculty in science & engineering to visit the USA. We were pleased to help make possible the visit, which finally began 25 June 2005 and earned a front-page story…
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DNA barcoding helps resolve tropical biodiversity
…Academy of Sciences USA, Hajibabaei et al examine 4260 specimens representing 521 (71%) of hesperiids (skipper butterflies), sphingids (sphinx moths), and saturniid moths of the of the ACG conservation area…
DNA helps save sharks
…Finning Prohibition Act of 2000 made this practice illegal in all U.S. waters, finning remains legal in most parts of the world.” In The USA regulations prohibit possession of any…
Undergrad interviews Jesse Ausubel about his career
Wake Forest University undergraduate Karina Macosko asks Jesse about climate change, counting fish, and other subjects of his work in a 15-minute video interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtK-kPJZ3Ow&feature=emb_logo…
Living Lab radio
…stimulated by Jesse’s lecture on 13 July 2012 on “Earth at Seven Billion” at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. Click here for a video of the hour-long lecture….
Serious Games
…the Lounsbery Foundation. First place went to PeaceMaker, a cross-cultural political video game simulation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which can be used to promote a peaceful resolution among Israelis, Palestinians…
Sponge barcoding on the web
…often largely or completely allopatric. In such cases, combining genetic barcode data with GIS coordinates may improve the certainty of some identifications. For fun, I close with a sponge video:…
The spider and the fly: learning about applying COI to species identification
…specimen and DNA extract. (Some pholcid spiders vibrate in their webs when disturbed, moving so rapidly they become invisible; here is a wonderful video) 16s and COI sequences were successfully…
Recording posted of seminar on US-Russia Scientific Cooperation
Jesse Ausubel helped open the excellent 3-hour September 15th 2020 on-line symposium on “US-Russia Scientific Cooperation” organized as part of a series honoring the memory of Victor Rabinowitch, who had a…
100 million years without sex: COI clustering in bdelloid rotifers challenges theories of how species are formed and maintained
…same as the “species tree.”] (For fun see Birky lab bdelloid video!) In April 2007 PloS Biology researchers from University of Milan, Italy, Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, and…