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NEW YORK – May 30, 2018 – The Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists today announced the 31 U.S. National Finalists who will compete for the world’s largest unrestricted prizes for early career scientists. Each year, three Blavatnik National Laureates in the categories of Life Sciences, Chemistry, and Physical Sciences & Engineering are awarded $250,000 each.
Jesse Bloom is fascinated by evolution.
Think how amazing it is, he says, that in nature, small, random genetic changes can add up to something new and wonderful – a stark contrast to the world of things. “If you make random mutations to your car with a baseball bat, you’re probably not going to improve the car very much,” he says. “So what is it about biology that allows living things to be so good at evolving?”
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Cell - Aug, 2018
Benhaim M, Lee KK - A Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Effector Alters Phagosomal Maturation to Promote Intracellular Growth of Francisella.
Cell host & microbe - Aug, 2018
Ledvina HE, Kelly KA, Eshraghi A, Plemel RL, Peterson SB, Lee B, Steele S, Adler M, Kawula TH, Merz AJ, Skerrett SJ, Celli J, Mougous JD - Viral diversity is an obligate consideration in CRISPR/Cas9 designs for targeting the HIV reservoir.
BMC biology - Jul, 2018
Roychoudhury P, De Silva Feelixge H, Reeves D, Mayer BT, Stone D, Schiffer JT, Jerome KR - Adaptation by copy number variation in monopartite viruses.
Current opinion in virology - Jul, 2018
Bayer A, Brennan G, Geballe AP - Ixodes scapularis does not harbor a stable midgut microbiome.
The ISME journal - Jun, 2018
Ross BD, Hayes B, Radey MC, Lee X, Josek T, Bjork J, Neitzel D, Paskewitz S, Chou S, Mougous JD