Archive for March, 2009

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Dartmouth Medical School and Thayer School of Engineering professor Jack Hoopes discussed the history of hyperthermia cancer treatment research at Dartmouth at Tuesday’s pathology seminar at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Stephen Morse, professor of psychiatry and law in psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania Law School, discussed how liable criminals are for their actions in his lecture titled “The Neuroscientific Law to Criminal Responsibility” at a seminar held at Dartmouth on March 2.

Senior Radio Astronomer Mark Reid from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics presented about “Measuring the Cosmos” last Friday at a colloquium sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

The longevity of certain types of messenger RNA increases considerably in response to monocyte adhesion during an innate immune response, said prof. Gary Brewer, who proposed a model for this finding on Thursday in Grand Rounds at the Norris Cotton Center.

The Herpes Simplex Virus incorporates a variety of mechanisms to systematically evade inherent cellular defenses, utilizing “genetic capital” to counter interferon response and autophagy, said David Leib on a Thursday immunology seminar last month at DHMC.

Dartmouth professor Ryan Calsbeek and post-doctorate Robert Cox recently found that forces like sexual selection and sexual dimorphism have differing levels of effect on sexual antagonism (SA). The finding was published earlier this month in The American Naturalist.