scholarly journals A day in the life of a Research Scientist

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-47
Keyword(s):  
Protein Engineering ◽  
Natural Product ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Research Scientist ◽  
Feed Industry ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
The University ◽  
First Job

Melissa Salmon received a BSc in Biochemistry with first class honours at the University of East Anglia in 2006, followed by a PhD in Biochemistry, which she completed in 2010. Her first job was as a Research Scientist at the John Innes Centre, Norwich where Melissa worked for 5 years researching natural product biochemistry. She became passionate about protein engineering and enzyme biochemistry and in 2015 she returned to the University of East Anglia. Melissa is now a Senior Research Associate working on engineering enzymes for the animal feed industry. Lorenza Giannella (Training Manager, Biochemical Society) spoke to her about her work.

Interview with a Celebrity Cartographer: Jim Meacham

2015 ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Lauren Tierney ◽  
Jim Meacham
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Mongolian Altai ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
Wildlife Migration ◽  
The University

James E. Meacham is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oregon, and Executive Director and co-founder of the InfoGraphics Lab in the University’s Department of Geography. He received his MA in Geography from the UO in 1992, and has served as the president of NACIS. His interests include map and atlas design, and data visualization. He is a co-creator of the Atlas of Yellowstone (2012), Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas (2010), and the Atlas of Oregon (2001). He teaches cartography courses at the University of Oregon. His current projects include the development of the Atlas of Wildlife Migration: Wyoming’s Ungulates.

Actors as Signposts: a Model for Site-based and Ambulatory Performances

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Smith
Keyword(s):  
Site Specific ◽  
Core Member ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
Subject Performance

In this paper Phil Smith examines the proposal of Simon Persighetti of Wrights & Sites for actors to behave ‘as signposts’. It describes the circumstances from which the proposal arose, a particular moment in the work of site-specific artists/performers Wrights & Sites, and argues for the wider application of the proposal to the making of site-based theatre and performance. The paper describes four main features of the proposal for ‘actors as signposts’ – pointing to specificity, movement from anti-character to collective subject, performance as trajectory, and the restoration of corporeality – illustrating these with reference to the work of Punchdrunk, Francis Alÿs, and geographer Michael Zinganel, among others. Phil Smith is a Senior Research Associate at the School of Art and Media, University of Plymouth and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Exeter and Dartington College of Arts. Author and co-deviser of over a hundred plays or performances for companies including St Petersburg State Comedy Theatre, Tams Theater (Munich), and New Perspectives (Nottingham), he is company dramaturg for TNT (Munich) and a core member of Wrights & Sites. His solo walking-based performances include The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside (texts published by Intellect, 2009).

scholarly journals A day in the life of a Senior Research Scientist

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-47
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Insecticide Resistance ◽  
Vector Control ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Senior Research Scientist ◽  
Postdoctoral Position ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
First Job

Jennina Taylor-Wells received a BSc in Biotechnology at Oxford Brookes University in 2008, followed by a PhD in Physiology. Her first job in 2013 was a postdoctoral position also at Oxford Brookes University, where she identified mutations in insect receptors, that were linked to insecticide resistance. Her interest in mosquitoes led her to the University of Florida in 2016. In Florida she investigated how insecticides elicit their action on mosquitoes, which provided her with a wider interest in vector control and public health. Jennina has since returned to the UK and now works in industry, continuing to research novel methods to control mosquitoes.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Encyclopedia of Central Banking

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Stacey Marien
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Monetary Economics ◽  
Central Banking ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Full Professor ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
Policy Institute ◽  
The University

Rochon is an Associate Professor of Economics, at Laurentian University, in Ontario, Canada, where he is Director of the International Economic Policy Institute. His areas of research include monetary theory and policy, financialization, and post-Keynesian economics. Rossi, is a Full Professor of Economics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, and Senior Research Associate at the International Economic Policy Institute at Laurentian University in Canada. The two editors have co-authored several articles together and now have edited this reference work.

scholarly journals A Conversation with Martin Stannard and Barbara Cooke

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Annabel Williams ◽  
Annabel Williams
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Evelyn Waugh ◽  
Literary Biography ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Muriel Spark ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Contextualisation

Martin Stannard is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Leicester. He read for his first degree in English at Warwick (1967-70), before taking an MA at Sussex University, and a DPhil at Oxford. Professor Stannard’s two-volume literary biography of Evelyn Waugh (1986, 1992), and his biography of Muriel Spark (2009) are essential reading for Waugh and Spark scholars, and are each studies in the value of historical contextualisation for appreciating the literary oeuvre of a writer. Stannard’s 1995 Norton Critical Edition of Ford Madox Ford’s modernist novel, The Good Soldier, similarly brings context to bear through his rigorous textual editing, annotation and critical apparatus. Stannard is currently the Principal Investigator for the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project, which is supported by a grant of  £822,000 from the AHRC, and which will see Oxford University Press publish 43 scholarly edition volumes of Waugh – the first of which appears next year. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Waugh’s death.Dr Barbara Cooke also teaches at the School of English at the University of Leicester. She received a BA and MA from Warwick (dates), and a PhD in Creative and Critical writing from the University of East Anglia for her interdisciplinary thesis Oil Men: the Twinned Lives of Arnold Wilson and Morris Young. Dr. Cooke is Research Associate for the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, providing a vital link between the project's 23 editors, of which she is one, editing Waugh’s autobiography A Little Learning (1964).

scholarly journals ACRL candidates for 2020: A look at who’s running

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Association Of College and Research Libraries
Keyword(s):  
Medical Center ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
User Research ◽  
Research Scientist ◽  
Associate Dean ◽  
Senior Research Scientist ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
The University

Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the director of library trends and user research at OCLC Research, a position she has held since 2018. Prior to this, Connaway served as senior research scientist and director of user research (2016-18), senior research scientist (2007-16), and consulting research scientist III (2003-07), all at OCLC Research. She was vice-president of research and library systems at NetLibrary (1999-2003), and director and associate clinical professor of the Library and Information Services Department at the University of Denver (1995-99). She served as assistant professor in the School of Library and Informational Science at the University of Missouri (1993-95), and as head of technical services and cataloging at Mesa State College Library (1984-89).Julie Garrison is dean of university libraries at Western Michigan University, a position she has held since 2016. Prior to this, Garrison served as associate dean, research and instructional services at Grand Valley State University Libraries (2009-16); director of off-campus library services at Central Michigan University (2003-07); and as assistant/associate director of public services at Duke University Medical Center Library (2000-02).

Electrical Energy Steam Boiler Heat Loss Analysis in Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk, Unit of Sidoarjo

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Priyandana ◽  
Jamaaluddin Jamaaluddin
Keyword(s):  
Heat Loss ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Steam Boiler ◽  
Android Application ◽  
Loss Analysis ◽  
Feed Industry ◽  
Calculation Process ◽  
Electricity Costs

In the animal feed industry, steam is used in pellet making machines. In this process, steam from the boiler is distributed to the pellet mill through the pipe. The purpose of this study is to observe the waste of electricity costs of operating a boiler by calculating heat loss in a distribution pipe. The method of assessing heat loss is done by calculating losses caused by heat loss in the boiler distribution. Then make a calculation application model based on the data obtained. From the data analyzed, the amount of heat lost in the non-insulating distribution pipe is 0.766 kJ/s with a loss of Rp 5.628,600 operating costs per month compared to heat loss in an isolated pipe condition of 0.047 kJ/s with losses which cost slightly more than Rp 368 190 / month. This heat loss calculation process is made on an android application by entering the calculation formula on the program and the data that has been obtained.

scholarly journals Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide-Dependent Halogenase XanH and Engineering of Multifunctional Fusion Halogenases

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingxin Kong ◽  
Qing Wang ◽  
Zixin Deng ◽  
Delin You
Keyword(s):  
Protein Engineering ◽  
Fusion Protein ◽  
Natural Product ◽  
Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Genetic Manipulation ◽  
Good Alternative ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Flavin Reductase ◽  
Free Standing

ABSTRACT Xantholipin (compound 1), a polycyclic xanthone antibiotic, exhibited strong antibacterial activities and showed potent cytotoxicity. The biosynthetic gene cluster of compound 1 has been identified in our previous work, and the construction of xanthone nucleus has been well demonstrated. However, limited information of the halogenation involved in compound 1 biosynthesis is available. In this study, based on the genetic manipulation and biochemical assay, we characterized XanH as an indispensable flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)-dependent halogenase (FDH) for the biosynthesis of compound 1. XanH was found to be a bifunctional protein capable of flavin reduction and chlorination and exclusively used the NADH. However, the reduced flavin could not be fully and effectively utilized, and the presence of an extra flavin reductase (FDR) and chemical-reducing agent could promote the halogenation. XanH accepted its natural free-standing substrate with angular fused polycyclic aromatic systems. Meanwhile, it exhibited moderate halogenation activity and possessed high substrate specificity. The requirement of extra FDR for higher halogenation activity is tedious for future engineering. To facilitate efforts in engineering XanH derivative proteins, we constructed the self-sufficient FDR-XanH fusion proteins. The fusion protein E1 with comparable activities to that of XanH could be used as a good alternative for future protein engineering. Taken together, these findings reported here not only improve the understanding of polycyclic xanthones biosynthesis but also expand the substrate scope of FDH and pave the way for future engineering of biocatalysts for new active substance synthesis. IMPORTANCE Halogenation is important in medicinal chemistry and plays an essential role in the biosynthesis of active secondary metabolites. Halogenases have evolved to catalyze reactions with high efficiency and selectivity, and engineering efforts have been made to engage the selective reactivity in natural product biosynthesis. The enzymatic halogenations are an environmentally friendly approach with high regio- and stereoselectivity, which make it a potential complement to organic synthesis. FDHs constitute one of the most extensively elucidated class of halogenases; however, the inventory awaits to be expanded for biotechnology applications and for the generation of halogenated natural product analogues. In this study, XanH was found to reduce flavin and halogenated the freely diffusing natural substrate with an angular fused hexacyclic scaffold, findings which were different from those for the exclusively studied FDHs. Moreover, the FDR-XanH fusion protein E1 with comparable reactivity to that of XanH serves as a successful example of genetic fusions and sets an important stage for future protein engineering.

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