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02 Mar 2016

Most viewed Microbiology articles in February 2016

Eradication of Biofilm-like Microcolony Structures of Borrelia burgdorferi by Daunomycin and Daptomycin but not Mitomycin C in Combination with Doxycycline and Cefuroxime Jie Feng, Megan Weitner, Wanliang Shi, Shuo Zhang and Ying Zhang* Viral Outbreak in Corals Associated with an In Situ Bleaching Event: Atypical Herpes-Like Viruses and a New Megavirus Infecting Symbiodinium Adrienne M. S. Correa, Tracy D. Ainsworth, Stephanie M. Rosales, Andrew R. Thurber, Christopher R. Butler and Rebecca L. Vega Thurber* Microbes as Engines of Ecosystem Function: When Does Community Structure Enhance Predictions of Ecosystem Processes? Emily B. Graham*, Joseph E. Knelman, Andreas Schindlbacher, Steven Siciliano, Marc Breulmann, Anthony Yannarell, J. M. Beman, Guy Abell, Laurent Philippot, James Prosser, Arnaud Foulquier, Jorge C. Yuste, Helen C. Glanville, Davey L. Jones, Roey Angel, Janne Salminen, Ryan J. Newton, Helmut Bürgmann, Lachlan J. Ingram, Ute Hamer, Henri M. P. Siljanen, Krista Peltoniemi, Karin Potthast, Lluís Bañeras, Martin Hartmann, Samiran Banerjee, Ri-Qing Yu, Geraldine Nogaro, Andreas Richter, Marianne Koranda, Sarah C. Castle, Marta Goberna, Bongkeun Song, Amitava Chatterjee, Olga C. Nunes, Ana R. Lopes, Yiping Cao, Aurore Kaisermann, Sara Hallin, Michael S. Strickland, Jordi Garcia-Pausas, Josep Barba, Hojeong Kang, Kazuo Isobe, Sokratis Papaspyrou, Roberta Pastorelli, Alessandra Lagomarsino, Eva Lindström, Nathan Basiliko and Diana R. Nemergut […]

Frontiers news

23 Feb 2016

An inclusive mentorship model for a better science

An interview with Carrie L. Byington, MD founder of the Clinical and Translational Scholars (CATS) mentoring program To many people narrowing the gender gap in science is mostly an issue of equal opportunities for men and women working in research. Others believe instead that it is actually more about giving diverse opportunities to science itself. It is the case of Carrie L. Byington, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, researcher and Co-Director of the Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science. “Science needs an inclusive environment because we need every idea in order to get the best results,” she said. And this principle is also what drove her to found the innovative mentorship program Clinical and Translational Research Scholars (CATS).  She says it was “a program designed to provide support and to launch the faculty careers of clinical and translational scientists.” This includes those who feel like outsiders to the worlds of science and medicine as she herself once did. “Sometimes I felt opportunities were not available to me, perhaps because I am a woman,” she said. Starting from the assumption that a single mentor is not sufficient for an effective training, Dr. Byington set up the program with several layers of […]

Young Minds

23 Feb 2016

Frontiers for Young Minds – Expanding on the Map

Frontiers for Young Minds is excited to be expanding its reach once again. Already it has expanded into four disciplines, and now it has expanded its footprint on the map. The main headquarters for Frontiers and the Frontiers Research Foundation remains in Lausanne, but its Project Manager has moved daily operations for the journal to the Capital Region of New York. This has already increased the opportunity for participation and collaboration with US organizations and universities – like last years’ event at the Bay Area Science Festival and its upcoming appearance at the US Science and Engineering Festival. With staff both in the US and Europe there will be greater ability to take advantage of the widespread outreach opportunities for interested young science minds. With Chief Editors in the US and Europe, authors and editors in numerous countries, and the Young Minds editorial team collaborating from opposite sides of the ocean, Frontiers for Young Minds has taken another step towards becoming the international science outreach and educational resource it seeks to be. And we are continuing to grow. If you are researcher and would like to rewrite one of your published articles for kids, let us know. We are accepting submissions. […]

Health

23 Feb 2016

STAFF PICK: Mutating to defeat malaria

This month’s Frontiers Staff Pick comes from Victor Kouassi. Victor is a Journal Operations Assistant and before joining us at Frontiers, was at the Francis Crick Institute in London where he conducted research on the immune responses of malaria. With his background in this field, he found the article “Major Histocompatibility Complex and Malaria: Focus on Plasmodium vivax Infection” interesting.  It was published in Frontiers in Immunology late January 2016. Below is why he selected this article as his staff pick: There are over 100 species of Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria. These can infect many kinds of animals from monkeys, birds to lizards. This parasite has evolved an intricate life cycle by taking advantage of an invertebrate vector, the mosquito. A vertebrate host, like a human, is usually infected through a bite which transmits the parasite which goes straight to the liver. The parasite then divides into merozoites which are released into the blood. It is this form of the parasite that causes the symptoms of disease by entering red blood cells and eventually causing them to explode resulting in fevers, chills, headaches and, in worst case scenarios, coma, brain damage and miscarriages. Of the five species of Plasmodium that […]

Frontiers news

16 Feb 2016

SciComm meet-up in San Francisco March 9

Part of the Frontiers Communication team will be in San Francisco on March 9, and together with swissnex San Francisco, we are hosting a Science Communication Meet-Up at Terroir, one of our favorite wine bars in the city. Whether you are a journalist who writes about the new discoveries or a scientist trying to let the media and other researchers know that you have just published a new exciting discovery, communicating science can be challenging. Let’s break down the boundaries and get to know each other so we can share information. WHO YOU’LL MEET: On March 9, you’ll meet Sandra Hausmann and myself (Michelle Ponto) from Frontiers, an academic publishing company based out Switzerland, and Benjamin Bollmann from swissnex. Sandra is Frontier’s Business Development Manager. She works out of our San Francisco Bureau and can fill you in on the latest innovations in academic publishing, what type of research Frontiers publishes and some of the interesting Research Topics we are excited about. These topics pool the research of scientists around the world and can cover big issues like Alzheimer’s, Zika virus research, climate change adaption, E.coli tracking, robotics and more.  She’s also your go-to person if you are looking for a researcher in your area to interview on a specific topic. […]

Robotics and AI

11 Feb 2016

VIDEO: Penn State scientist uses sensors to tackle real-world problems

by Kirstin Sonne Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly one of the buzzwords of our times and has become the subject of innumerable movies, TV series, novels and conspiracy theories. But despite the high-flying and fantastical predictions which appear ubiquitous in our popular culture, artificial intelligence is still surprisingly limited in many ways. Although computers are able to make calculations at a scale and speed that is unimaginable to humans, one of the areas in which we maintain a clear advantage over machines is in contextualizing information. “They can’t situate themselves in an environment,” explained Professor Shashi Phoha. Searching for new ways for computers to put information in context Currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Information Sciences & Technology Division at the Applied Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University, Phoha is a leading figure in sensor networks and machine perception and intelligence. Her research focuses on improving the distributed automation of multiple interacting devices and achieving real-time data driven sensor fusion and self-organization algorithms for secure wireless sensor networks. Her achievements in the computational sciences have secured her senior positions in academia, government and industry, and she has over 200 research publications to her name. In […]

Frontiers news

09 Feb 2016

Most viewed Psychology articles in January 2016

Emotion Regulation through Movement: Unique Sets of Movement Characteristics are Associated with and Enhance Basic Emotions Tal Shafir*, Rachelle P. Tsachor and Kathleen B. Welch Gamification of Learning Deactivates the Default Mode Network Paul A.r Howard-Jones*, Tim Jay, Alice Mason and Harvey Jones Mindfulness Training in Primary Schools Decreases Negative Affect and Increases Meta-Cognition in Children Charlotte E. Vickery* and Dusana Dorjee Super Champions, Champions, and Almosts: Important Differences and Commonalities on the Rocky Road Dave Collins*, Aine Macnamara and Neil McCarthy Examining the Role of Mental Health and Clinical Issues within Talent Development Andy Hill*, Aine MacNamara, Dave Collins and Sheelagh Rodgers Does Mindfulness Enhance Critical Thinking? Evidence for the Mediating Effects of Executive Functioning in the Relationship between Mindfulness and Critical Thinking Chris Noone*, Brendan Bunting and Michael J. Hogan Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory: Quality and Quantity of Retention Over Time Aurora K. R. LePort, Shauna M. Stark, James L. McGaugh and Craig E. L. Stark* Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken Directly Before Execution Sarah Hirschmüller* and Boris Egloff Associations Between the Big Five Personality Traits and the Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs for Cognitive Enhancement Sebastian Sattler* and Reinhard Schunck Influence of Music on Anxiety Induced by Fear of Heights in Virtual Reality Sofia Seinfeld*, Ilias Bergstrom, […]

Frontiers news

08 Feb 2016

Most viewed Neurology articles in January 2016

Eye-Movement Training Results in Changes in qEEG and NIH Stroke Scale in Subjects Suffering from Acute Middle Cerebral Artery Ischemic Stroke: A Randomized Control Trial  Frederick Robert Carrick*, Elena Oggero, Guido Pagnacco, Cameron H. G. Wright, Calixto Machado, Genco Estrada, Alejandro Pando, Juan C. Cossio and Carlos Beltrán Dissociation between Conceptual and Perceptual Implicit Memory: Evidence from Patients with Frontal and Occipital Lobe Lesions Liang Gong*, JiHua Wang, XuDong Yang, Lei Feng, Xiu Li, Cui Gu, MeiHong Wang, JiaYun Hu and Huaidong Cheng* DNA Demethylation Upregulated Nrf2 Expression in Alzheimer’s Disease Cellular Model Huimin Cao, Li Wang, Beibei Chen, Peng Zheng, Yi He, Yubin Ding, Yushuang Deng, Xi Lu, Xiuming Guo, Yuping Zhang, Yu Li and Gang Yu* Gray Matter Volume and Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Motor Cortex-Cerebellum Network Reflect the Individual Variation in Masticatory Performance in Healthy Elderly People Chia-Shu Lin*, Shih-Yun Wu, Ching-Yi Wu and Hsien-Wei Ko Limited Effect of Dopaminergic Medication on Straight Walking and Turning in Early-to-Moderate Parkinson’s Disease during Single and Dual Tasking Morad Elshehabi*, Katrin S. Maier, Sandra E. Hasmann, Susanne Nussbaum, Heinz Herbst, Tanja Heger, Daniela Berg, Markus A. Hobert and Walter Maetzler* Antisaccadic Eye Movements Are Correlated with Corpus Callosum White Matter Mean Diffusivity, Stroop Performance, […]

Frontiers news

07 Feb 2016

Most viewed Oncology articles in January 2016

Molecular and Biochemical Analysis of the Estrogenic and Proliferative Properties of Vitamin E Compounds Farid Khallouki, Philippe de Medina, Stephanie Caze-Subra, Kerstin Bystricky, Patrick Balaguer, Marc Poirot* and Sandrine Silvente-Poirot Human Papilloma Virus Identification in Breast Cancer Patients with Previous Cervical Neoplasia James S. Lawson*, Wendy K. Glenn, Daria Salyakina, Rosemary Clay, Warick Delprado, Barathi Cheerala, Dinh D. Tran, Christopher C. Ngan, Shingo Miyauchi, Martha Karim, Annika Antonsson and Noel J. Whitaker Exposure to Carbon Ions Triggers Proinflammatory Signals and Changes in Homeostasis and Epidermal Tissue Organization to a Similar Extent as Photons Palma Simoniello, Julia Wiedemann, Joana Zink, Eva Thönnes, Maike Stange, Paul G. Layer, Maximilian Kovacs, Maurizio Podda, Marco Durante and Claudia Fournier* The rs11515 Polymorphism Is More Frequent and Associated With Aggressive Breast Tumors With Increased ANRIL and Decreased p16INK4a Expression Janice A. Royds, Anna P. Pilbrow, Antonio Ahn, Helen R. Morrin, Chris Framptom, I. Alasdair Russell, Christine S. Moravec, Wendy E. Sweet, W. H. Wilson Tang, Margaret J. Currie, Noelyn Anne A. Hung  and Tania L. Slatter* Phase Space Generation for Proton and Carbon Ion Beams for External Users’ Applications at the Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center Thomas Tessonnier*, Tiago Marcelos, Andrea Mairani, Stephan Brons and Katia Parodi The Influence of C-Ions and X-rays on Human […]

Frontiers news

07 Feb 2016

Most viewed Immunology articles in January 2016

Dynamic Perturbations of the T-Cell Receptor Repertoire in Chronic HIV Infection and following Antiretroviral Therapy James M. Heather*, Katharine Best, Theres Oakes, Eleanor R. Gray, Jennifer K. Roe, Niclas Thomas, Nir Friedman, Mahdad Noursadeghi and Benny Chain Tolerogenic IDO+ Dendritic Cells Are Induced by PD-1-Expressing Mast Cells Cecilia Pessoa Rodrigues, Ana Carolina Franco Ferreira, Mariana Pereira Pinho, Cristiano Jacob de Moraes, Patrícia Cruz Bergami-Santos and Jose Alexandre Marzagao Barbuto* Redefining Myeloid Cell Subsets in Murine Spleen Ying-Ying Hey, Jonathan K. H. Tan and Helen C. O’Neill* Unique Eomes+ NK Cell Subsets Are Present in Uterus and Decidua During Early Pregnancy Elisa Montaldo, Paola Vacca*, Laura Chiossone, Daniele Croxatto, Fabrizio Loiacono, Stefania Martini, Simone Ferrero, Thierry Walzer, Lorenzo Moretta* and Maria Cristina Mingari Receptor-Interacting Protein Kinase-2 Inhibition by CYLD Impairs Antibacterial Immune Responses in Macrophages Katharina Wex, Ursula Schmid, Sissy Just, Xu Wang, Rebecca Wurm, Michael Naumann, Dirk Schlüter* and Gopala Nishanth* Murine Butyrophilin-Like 1 and Btnl6 Form Heteromeric Complexes in Small Intestinal Epithelial Cells and Promote Proliferation of Local T Lymphocytes Cristina Lebrero-Fernández, Joakim H. Bergström, Thaher Pelaseyed and Anna Bas-Forsberg* Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Bone Marrow CD8+ T Cells from Different Bones Uncovers a Major Contribution of the Bone Marrow in the Vertebrae Sulima Geerman, Sarah […]

Frontiers news

06 Feb 2016

Most viewed Plant Science articles in January 2016

Endosomal Interactions during Root Hair Growth Daniel von Wangenheim, Amparo Rosero, George Komis, Olga Samajova, Miroslav Ovecka, Boris Voigt and Jozef Samaj* De novo Transcriptome Sequencing and Development of Abscission Zone-Specific Microarray as a New Molecular Tool for Analysis of Tomato Organ Abscission Srivignesh Sundaresan, Sonia Philosoph-Hadas, Joseph Riov, Raja Mugasimangalam, Nagesh A. Kuravadi, Betina Kochanek, Shoshana Salim, Mark L. Tucker and Shimon Meir* Comparative Morphophysiological Analyses and Molecular Profiling Reveal Pi-Efficient Strategies of a Traditional Rice Genotype Poonam Mehra, Bipin K. Pandey and Jitender Giri* Physiological and Metabolic Changes of Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) in Response to Drought, Heat, and Combined Stresses Rui Jin, Yanping Wang, Ruijie Liu, Junbo Gou and Zhulong Chan* Genome-wide small RNA analysis of soybean reveals auxin-responsive microRNAs that are differentially expressed in response to salt stress in root apex Zhengxi Sun, Youning Wang, Fupeng Mou, Yinping Tian, Liang Chen, Senlei Zhang, Qiong Jiang and Xia Li* Enhanced Salt Tolerance Conferred by the Complete 2.3 kb cDNA of the Rice Vacuolar Na+/H+ Antiporter Gene Compared to 1.9 kb Coding Region with 5′ UTR in Transgenic Lines of Rice U. S. M. Amin, Sudip Biswas, Sabrina M. Elias, Samsad Razzaque, Taslima Haque, Richard Malo and Zeba I. Seraj* Developmental Nuclear Localization and […]

Frontiers news

06 Feb 2016

Most viewed Genetics articles in January 2016

Decoding Cellular Dynamics in Epidermal Growth Factor Signaling Using a New Pathway-Based Integration Approach for Proteomics and Transcriptomics Data Astrid Wachter* and Tim Beissbarth An Expanded Analysis of Pharmacogenetics Determinants of Efavirenz Response that Includes 3′-UTR Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms among Black South African HIV/AIDS Patients Marelize Swart, Jonathan Evans, Michelle Skelton, sandra castel, Lubbe Weisner, Peter John Smith and Collet Dandara* Using centromere mediated genome elimination to elucidate the functional redundancy of candidate telomere binding proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana. Karel Riha* and Nick Fulcher Stress-induced accumulation of DcAOX1 and DcAOX2a transcripts coincides with critical time point for structural biomass prediction in carrot primary cultures (Daucus carota L.) Maria Doroteia Campos, Amaia Nogales, Hélia Guerra Cardoso*, Sarma Rajeev Kumar, Tânia Nobre, Ramalingam Sathishkumar and Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt* Milk bottom-up proteomics: method optimisation. Delphine Vincent*, Vilnis Ezernieks, Aaron Elkins, Nga Nguyen, Peter J. Moate, Benjamin G. Cocks and Simone Rochfort A Quantitative Assessment of Factors Affecting the Technological Development and Adoption of Companion Diagnostics Dee Luo, James A Smith, Nick A Meadows, Katie Manescu, Kim Bure, Benjamin Davies, Rob Horne, David L DiGiusto and David A Brindley* Advanced In vivo Use of CRISPR/Cas9 and Anti-Sense DNA Inhibition for Gene Manipulation in the Brain Brandon J. Walters, Amber B. Azam, Colleen J. […]