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Protein Design and Evolution for Biocatalysis

AbstractCover illustration: Soon designing proteins on demand? This is the vision expressed by the designer pencils pointing at the logo of the meeting held in September 2006 in Greifswald, Germany. This special issue was edited by Prof. Uwe Bornscheuer from Greifswald, who selected papers from keynote speakers at this meeting. With special thanks to Prof. Romas Kazlauskas, University of Minnesota, for the design of the conference logo. Pencils © FOTOLIA.

Hot hearts in the Sonoran desert: The 11th Weinstein cardiovascular development conference in Tucson

The 11th Annual Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference was held May 19-22, 2005 at the Westward Look Resort and Conference Center in Tucson, Arizona. The Westward Look was the site of the 6th Weinstein Meeting in 1999, and this year, 330 basic research scientists and research clinicians returned to Tucson for 3 days of meetings, Mariachis, and margaritas. The meeting was hosted by the cardiovascular research group at the University of Arizona and offered flavors of the desert southwest that included record temperatures, the Skopopelli conference logo modified from the Kokopelli of Native American mythology (Fig. 1), and liberal use of a cattle prod to encourage speaker timeliness.

How Many Psychiatrists Does It Take?

How Many Psychiatrists Does It Take?

Black Holes, Accretion Disks and Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nucleia.

As the conference logo clearly portrays, galaxies have radio-active nuclei. Indeed it was the remarkable discovery, that distant galaxies are sometimes accompanied by prodigiously energetic radio sources, that led to the convening of the first Texas conference on relativistic astrophysics, in 1964, 1 just in time for the even more noteworthy discovery of quasars. We now know that most galaxies, including our own, have definite nuclei and exhibit non-stellar activity at some level. At its weakest, this takes the form of barely discernible spectral lines; at its most dramatic it involves emission throughout the electromagnetic spectrum with luminosity far in excess of that of the host galaxy, most of it originating from a region smaller than our solar system. It is my task to provide a general summary of what astrophysicists think is happening in active galactic nuclei (AGN, henceforth), emphasizing recent developments.