Principal Scientist Research Articles

When academia met industry: working toward a needle-free vaccination future in the sunshine state.

Located in Brisbane's Northshore riverfront precinct, just meters from the iconic Brisbane River, is the new Vaxxas Biomedical Facility. Dr Imogen Bermingham is a Principal Scientist in the Formulation and Analytical Team at Vaxxas, an Australian biotech company focused on developing a needle-free vaccination technology. Here, we discuss her work at Vaxxas, highlighting the opportunities for translational research within the growing biotech industry landscape in Queensland, Australia. Dr Bermingham also reflects on her transition from academia to industry, leveraging her skill set and expanding her capabilities within the dynamic research environment at Vaxxas.

Harnessing science and technology policy to drive innovation in India: A conversation with Dr. Parvinder Maini

MIT Science Policy Review spoke with Dr. Parvinder Maini about the role of science and technology (S&T) policies in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in India. Dr. Maini is the Scientific Secretary at the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Government of India. In her current role, Dr. Maini is responsible for enlarging the R&D ecosystem in the country, formulating policies, and forging three-way industry-academia-government collaborations. A scientist-turned-policymaker, Dr. Maini has been instrumental in the launch of several critical national programs including the National Research Foundation and the National Deep Tech Policy among many others. An expert in meteorology and oceanography, Dr. Maini spent 20 years in the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) where she was instrumental in the development and implementation of statistical dynamical models for providing location-specific forecasts. She also spearheaded the Atmospheric Science and International Cooperation programs at MoES Headquarters. We spoke with Dr. Maini about how the Office of the PSA synergistically works with other governmental policymaking institutions to achieve India’s S&T goals.

Analisis dan Prediksi Pemanfaatan DAS Sebangau Secara Berkelanjutan di Desa Garung Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah

People who have lived in watersheds for a long time rely on fish and wood for their livelihoods, but these resources are still getting worse because of people. On the one hand, growth keeps going, and the population keeps growing yearly without anyone stopping it. This means that market demand keeps increasing, which makes people using the watershed do too much fishing and logging.
 Along the Sebangau watershed, social and environmental problems are now, such as the loss of peat swamp forest land cover and fewer fish. There are also social and cultural problems, such as the incomes of the people who really do sustainable fishing are still decreasing. To solve these complicated and interconnected problems, we need methods from different fields that work together.
 The system dynamics methodology is one way to figure out policy scenarios for how watersheds will be used in the future in a complicated, dynamic way that involves many parts and pieces. System dynamics can make the behaviour of the environmental management system easier to understand and model. This helps area managers and the government devise other ways to make decisions about the future.
 Palangka Raya University's academics did this study to give TNS managers and local governments information about climate change and the global environment and to predict symptoms or events that are bad for the people, nation, and state of RI. This study is about the University of Palangka Raya's Principal Scientific Pattern (PIP), the Development of Science and Technology in Tropical Peat Swamp Areas and River Streams, also known as Science and Technology Innovation.

К 70-ЛЕТИЮ А. Н. СЕРЕБРЯНОГО

The article is dedicated to the anniversary of Andrey Ninelovich Serebryany, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Principal Scientist of the Laboratory of Ocean Acoustics, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Serebryany A. N. – a wellknown specialist in the study of internal waves on the ocean shelf, the author of more than 200 scientific papers.

People in Control

In this issue of <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Control Systems</i> , we speak with Meeko Oishi, a professor and regents’ lecturer at the University of New Mexico (UNM); Dr. Niklas Karlsson, senior principal research scientist at Amazon, where he is driving the science vision for the Amazon Demand Side Platform; and Hector Ramirez, an assistant professor at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM) in Chile.

Latest Advances in Narrow‐Band Phosphors and Their Role in Color Management

Latest Advances in Narrow‐Band Phosphors and Their Role in Color Management

A Better Telescope Gazing at the Transcriptome

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology NewsVol. 43, No. 5 OMICSA Better Telescope Gazing at the TranscriptomePacific Biosciences combines long-read and single-cell technologies to enable deep surveys of RNA-seq spaceJason UnderwoodJason UnderwoodJason Underwood, PhD, is a principal scientist at Pacific Biosciences. Website: www.pacb.com.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:8 May 2023https://doi.org/10.1089/gen.43.05.15AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 43Issue 5May 2023 Information© 2023 by GEN PublishingTo cite this article:Jason Underwood.A Better Telescope Gazing at the Transcriptome.Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.May 2023.46-47.http://doi.org/10.1089/gen.43.05.15Published in Volume: 43 Issue 5: May 8, 2023PDF download

Reports on the Evaluation of Innovation Excellence Indicators in India

The report included a multitude of information about India’s publicly supported R&D Organizations’ strengths and weaknesses, as well as the framework established by NITI Aayog, and is divided into two parts (Volume I and II). The report examines the performance of several publicly sponsored R&D organisations’ research ecosystems using a variety of innovation indicators and research outputs. This is the first time Dr. Arabinda Mitra and his team (and other institutional team members co-ordinately involved, such as NITI Aayog, Principal Scientific Adviser, Confederation of Indian Industry, Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Economic Research, and so on) have conducted a complex exercise that can be used to enhance future activities. A total of 193 research labs (ICAR, CSIR, ICMR, DBT and DST, as well as other central government ministries) were investigated (data collection period August 2020 to November 2020) in terms of their socio-economic contribution, STI excellence, and organisational capabilities and practises attributes designed by NITI Aayog (7 main pillars and 11 sub-pillars and 62 evaluation parameters). The report extensively developed a roadmap for improving R&D organisations’ outputs and outcomes, as well as their present operations. Read more...

Water Saving - An Emerging Necessity for Sustainable Agriculture

Modern Concepts & Developments in Agronomy Water Saving - An Emerging Necessity for Sustainable Agriculture Devinder Mohan* Retired Principal Scientist, India *Corresponding author:Devinder Mohan, Retired Principal Scientist, ICAR - Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal 132001, India Submission: March 29, 2023;Published: April 05, 2023 DOI: 10.31031/MCDA.2023.12.000795 ISSN 2637-7659Volume12 Issue 4

Small molecule treats multiple sclerosis in rodents

Scientists at the drugmaker Sanofi have identified a small molecule that can cross the blood-brain barrier and inhibit colony stimulating factor-1 receptor (CSF1R), a kinase that has been linked to multiple sclerosis (MS). The compound, known as RA03546849, is effective at treating MS in rodents. During a talk at the ACS Spring 2023 meeting last week, Andrew A. Scholte, a principal scientist at Sanofi, walked attendees through the campaign that produced the inhibitor. The Sanofi researchers, who were led by Nellwyn Hagan and John L. Kane Jr., hypothesized that by inhibiting CSF1R, they could dampen the effects of microglia and infiltrating macrophages, which are cells in the central nervous system associated with inflammation and other hallmarks of MS. The challenge, Scholte said, was to find a molecule that could cross into the brain and could inhibit CSF1R without also inhibiting other kinases, particularly tropomyosin-related kinases that are abundant in the

Preface

The 2022 International Symposium on Advanced Launch Technologies took place in a hybrid format (virtually and physically) during 4-6 July 2022 at the Shaanxi Hotel, Xi’an, in the People’s Republic of China. It was organised as a hybrid conference due to the pandemic and travel restrictions. By holding part of it in virtual format, a greater number of scientists and engineers worldwide could participate. The objectives of the conference were to disseminate details on the latest developments in launch technologies. The scope of the conference included fire control technologies, unmanned launch and anti-aircraft technologies, new materials, command and communications technologies, and applications of artificial intelligence.The two Chairs of the conference were the following:Professor Kuiwu Li, Northwest Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, China;Clive Woodley, Principal Scientist, UK.The conference comprised an Opening Ceremony followed by plenary lectures. A Closing Ceremony was conducted at the end of the conference. In addition, papers were submitted and reviewed for publication in the conference proceedings. Each plenary lecture was 30 minutes long including questions. Details of the opening ceremony and plenary lectures are provided below: Opening Ceremony (5 minutes each): Chunjian Li, China;Clive Woodley, UK. Plenary lectures: 1. Ying Tan, Peking University, China. Title: “Advances in Swarm Intelligence for Optimization and Cooperation of Swarm-Robotics”2. Vladimír Čech, University of Defence, Brno, Czech Republic. Title: “Improved Artillery Fire Coorections for Deviations of Meterorological Parameters”.3. Juan Antonio Álvarez García, University of Seville, Spain. Title: “AI Application in Armament Systems”.4. Qiang Li, North University of China, China. Title: “Analysis of Shock Characteristics of Supercritical CO2”. Closing Ceremony (5 minutes): Clive Woodley The participants were located in Asia and Europe and the overall attendance number was about 200. The number of papers accepted was 176.List of Organizing Committee is available in this Pdf.

Emergence BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 as newly identified omicron subvariants: current scenario and future outlook - an update.

aFaculty of Allied Health Science, Department of Pharmacy, Daffodil International University, Daffodil smart city, Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh bSt. John Institute of Pharmacy and Research, Palghar, Maharshtra, India cDivision of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh - 243122, India Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. Published online ■ ■ *Corresponding author. Address: Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Daffodil International University, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh, Mobile: +8801935567417, E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Akash). *Corresponding author. Address: Principal Scientist, Division of Pathology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar 243122, Bareilly, U.P, India, E-mail address: [email protected] (K. Dhama). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Cancer survivors at greater risk for bone fractures late in life

Cancer survivors at greater risk for bone fractures late in life

Sir David Allan (Dai) Rees. 28 April 1936—10 June 2021

Dai Rees was a carbohydrate chemist, who made major contributions to our understanding of the structure and function of naturally occurring polysaccharides. During his time at the University of Edinburgh he was the first to identify the self-association of polysaccharides from red algae such as agarose and the carrageenans into ordered double helical structures. This understanding of polysaccharide structure and functionality achieved in Edinburgh was of interest to carbohydrate chemists and the industries where these materials are widely used, such as foods and pharmaceuticals. Throughout the 1970s, Dai worked in the Unilever Colworth House laboratory as principal scientist. He continued his studies of polysaccharide structure and function, but also led fundamental research in emerging sciences of corporate interest to Unilever's long-term business future. Dai believed that high quality science was the source of uniqueness in innovation and technology. He identified that problems in research require a multidisciplinary approach, and at Colworth House he organized smaller projects into research themes, allowing faster development of both understanding and application. This philosophy was practised throughout his management career. He became director of the National Institute for Medical Research in 1982, and from 1987 to 1996 was the chief executive of the Medical Research Council. At the same time, he was a senior advisor to the UK National Technology Foresight exercise and president of the European Science Foundation. After retirement, he was instrumental in establishing the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products at the University of York, funded by the Garfield Weston Foundation.

Organization of Scientific Institutions of Narkompros: The Case of the Central Biological Station

The article deals with the making of Soviet science, in particular, the creation of new biological research institutions as exemplified by the case of the Central Biological Station (CBS). The author analyzes the activities of the People’s Commissariat of Education (“Narkompros”) and its divisions (Academic Center, Principal Scientific Council, “Glavnauka”, and Science Department) regarding their subordinate organizations. The history of the initial period in the creation of the K. A. Timiryazev Biological Institute – the work of the Central Biological Station of the Narkompros Academic Center – is reconstructed based on a broad range of archival sources from the Russian Academy of Sciences Archive, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the MSU Scientific Library, and Department of Written Sources of the State Historical Museum, many of which are introduced for scientific use for the first time. Established during a difficult period of the early 1920s and having had existed for about a year, the Station united a host of prominent scientists including M. M. Novikov, D. P. Syreishchikov, V. D. Lepeshkin, V. M. Borovskii and many others, who despite the difficulties conducted extensive research, which included collecting and processing materials collected in the vicinity of the Lake Senezh where CBS was located. The article contains a relatively complete list of the Station’s scientific staff (making a complete list is impossible due to frequent staff changeover) and reviews the main strands of CBS’ scientific activities as well as its equipment and facilities. It is concluded that the creation of CBS was the government’s attempt to bring biological research under the administrative and scientific control while CBS itself was from the start a serious, well-equipped scientific research institution that became a foundation for the future K. A. Timiryazev Biological Institute.

Kajian Sebaran Panas Permukaan Daratan Dengan Teknik Penginderaan Jauh Berbasis Cloud

Climate change is constant. The average temperature has risen since the globe was encased in ice millions of years ago. Current climate change is caused by natural events and human behavior in treating and managing the environment. The huge burning of coal, oil, and wood and deforestation caused by economic development has seriously damaged the world's climate. Global climate change may alter peat carbon stored by forest and land fires. Human activities like plantation development, agriculture, and logging have made tropical peatlands more vulnerable to fire. Indonesia has 44 million hectares of tropical peatlands, with 45% and 64% carbon content. This study addresses Palangka Raya's intermittent land surface heating. The Palangka Raya University academic community conducted this research to provide input on climate change and the global environment and to predict a symptom or occurrence that harms society. This project is part of the University of Palangka Raya's Principal Scientific Pattern (PIP): Science and Technology Innovation in Tropical Peat Swamp Areas and River Streams.

Larry Allen

Larry Allen, 79, died Sept. 14 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. “Larry was an intelligent, thoughtful, adventurous, and hard-working man, devoted to family. He was a committed researcher in the field of colloid chemistry in the pulp and paper industry. He worked for the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (later FPInnovations) for 37 years. He was a leader in pulp and paper chemistry research and coedited the first book on wood resin. He coauthored over 100 publications and several patents. He was particularly proud to be able to save pulp and paper mills amounts often more than $10 million per annum in increased productivity and product quality.”—Sandy Allen, daughter Most recent title: Principal scientist, FPInnovations Education: BSc, physical chemistry, Carleton University, 1965; PhD, physical chemistry, Clarkson University, 1970 Survivors: Wife, Lee; children, Sandy, Mike, Jamie, and Dave; 11 grandchildren To recognize your late loved one or colleague, submit obituary information

Morphological and molecular characterization of some popular cultivated mushrooms of India

Morphological and molecular characterization of some popular cultivated mushrooms of IndiaSanjeev Kumar1*, Anand Sagar2, Shwet Kamal3 and Jagriti Rana41. Associate professor, Govt. College Bilaspur.2. Dean of Life Sciences, H.P. Univ.. Shimla. 3. Principal Scientist, DMR Solan.4. PhD research Scholar, Department of Biosciences, H.P. Univ.Shimla.* Corresponding author, E-mail: sanjeev5112@gmail.com +919418045021 AbstractThe mushroom cultivation is a highly lucrative agribusiness to produce nutritious food and earn money in short space and time. The present studies were conducted to analyze morphological and molecular characteristics of five cultivated strains of mushrooms Agaricus bisporus (NBS-5), Calocybe indica (DMRO-302), Flammulina velutipes (DMRO-253), Pleurotus florida (DMRP-136) and Volvariella volvacea (DMRO-484). The fruiting bodies were procured from ICAR-Directorate of Mushroom Research, Solan, HP (India) and screened for morphological and molecular details. Macroscopic features like shape, size and colour of stipe and pileus were recorded. Microscopic details were worked out by cutting free hand sections of material and observed under research microscope and scanning electron microscope. Molecular identification was done through internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of ribosomal DNA sequencing. The nucleotide sequences of each sample were analyzed for Basic local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) search program in US National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) for identification. The DNA sequences obtained in this study were submitted in the Gen Bank database at NCBI with accession numbers MW718994.1 (A. bisporus), MW714627.1 (C. indica), MW719474.1 (F. velutipes), MW719254.1 (P. florida) and MW720603.1 (V. volvacea).Keywords: Mushroom, Molecular identification, ITS, rRNA, Nucleotide sequencing, Gen Bank database

Biopharma Is Going Digital … Bit by Bit

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ALTECH 2021 – Analytical Techniques for Precise Characterization of Nano Materials

ALTECH 2021 – Analytical Techniques for Precise Characterization of Nano Materials