From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Feb 01 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!PHYSICAL36.CHEM.UFL.EDU!alex From: alex@PHYSICAL36.CHEM.UFL.EDU (alex) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: oxygen pressure in lipid bilayers Date: 2 Feb 1996 06:30:13 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 4 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199602021606.LAA01469@physical36.chem.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Can somebody please point me to literature references on oxygen partial pressure in lipid bilayer membranes? Thank you very much, Alex Angerhofer. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Feb 01 22:00:00 1996 Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.ki.se!news From: Kurt Berndt Subject: AMBER94 (CYS- & Zn2+) Sender: news@news.ki.se (News admin) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 10:40:18 GMT X-Url: news:bionet.biophysics Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Nntp-Posting-Host: broccoli.mfn.ki.se Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m) Organization: Karolinska Institutet Lines: 15 I am looking for library parameters for CYS- & Zn2+ for the latest AMBER (AMBER94) force field. Has anyone made these calculations or approximated these values? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doc Kurt D. Berndt kurt@mfn.ki.se Assistant Professor Department of Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics Karolinska Institute doktorsringen 6A Tel. ++46 8 728-6799 S-17177 Stockholm, SWEDEN Fax ++46 8 32 65 05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Feb 01 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!CSA4.LBL.GOV!berry%lcbvax.hepnet From: berry%lcbvax.hepnet@CSA4.LBL.GOV (EDWARD A. BERRY) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: RE: oxygen pressure in lipid bilayers Date: 2 Feb 1996 11:54:17 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 21 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <960202115200.25c0162f@Csa4.LBL.Gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net >Can somebody please point me to literature references on oxygen partial >pressure in lipid bilayer membranes? > >Thank you very much, Alex Angerhofer. To the extent that partial pressure is a measure of activity, the partial pressure in a lipid bilayer will be the same that of the medium it is in equilibrium with. This assumes no source or sink (such as the active site of the photosynthetic O2 evolving complex or of cytochrome oxidase) is keeping it out of equilibrium. The other useful information would be the concentration. Oxygen and other nonpolar gases are quite soluble in hydrocarbons. The only numbers I have at hand are Henry's law constants for N2- 1.79*10^6 in benzene and 6.51*10^7 in water, i.e. 36 times more soluble in benzene. Air-saturated water is about 0.25 mM in O2. If you could look up solubility of O2 in hexane it might be a good approximation for concentration in the center of a bilayer. There may be more direct information available from quenching of fluorescent membrane probes. Ed Berry [eaberry@lbl.gov] From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Feb 02 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dra.com!news.getnet.com!usenet From: ppm Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Radioactivity Detection Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 16:43:58 -0800 Organization: GetNet, International, Inc. Lines: 4 Message-ID: <3112AFCE.7EAD@getnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phx-ip2-101.getnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win16; I) Introducing the first wristwatch that measures, detects, and counts radioactivity and x-rays. Check details: http://gn2.getnet.com/~ppm/ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Feb 02 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "David J. States" Newsgroups: bionet.general,comp.theory,comp.databases,comp.graphics,bionet.software,bionet.biophysics,,comp.ai,sci.bio.technology,sci.engr.biomed,wu.general Subject: CFP and extended deadline - Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology '96 Conference Date: 2 Feb 1996 19:28:26 -0800 Organization: Institute for Biomedical Computing Lines: 102 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3111186F.1CBC@ibc.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Xref: biosci bionet.general:19719 comp.theory:9049 comp.databases:33501 bionet.software:14616 bionet.biophysics:1669 comp.ai:21862 sci.bio.technology:4701 sci.engr.biomed:5390 The Fourth International Conference on Computational Biology Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology '96 June 12-15, 1996 Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA http://ibc.wustl.edu/ismb96 Call For Papers An electronic mailing list can be joined by sending a message to ismb96@ibc.wustl.edu with the word "subscribe" as the body of the message. Key Dates Meeting: June 12-15, 1996 Paper Submissions Papers due: Feb 6, 1996 *** note extended date *** Replies to authors: Mar 15, 1996 Revised papers due: Apr 1, 1996 Open Poster Submissions Abstracts due: Apr 1, 1996 Tutorial Proposals Full proposals due: March 18, 1996 Replies to authors: April 1, 1996 Draft handouts due: April 15, 1996 Final handouts due: May 13, 1996 Tutorials presented: June 12, 1996 The purpose of the ISMB conference is to disseminate the latest developments in computational molecular biology and biophysics and to stimulate new work on the application of intelligent computational systems to problems in molecular biology. ISMB is a multidisciplinary conference bringing together scientists from computer science, mathematics, statistics, and molecular biology. Its scope extends to any computational method or system supporting a biological task that is algorithmically, cognitively, or conceptually challenging, involves a synthesis of heterogeneous information, or exhibits the emergent properties of an "intelligent system." From a computational perspective, areas of interest include adaptive systems, intelligent experimental control, data modeling, machine learning, artificial intelligence, combinatorics, stochastic optimization, string and graph algorithms, linguistic methods, and parallel computer technologies. Biological areas of interest include molecular structure, genomics, molecular sequence analysis, evolution and phylogenetics, adaptive experimental systems, and molecular biology. Emphasis is placed on the validation of methods using real data sets and on practical application in the biological sciences. The ISMB conference has attracted a large and enthusiastic audience comprising scientists involved in application areas such as artificial intelligence, structural biology, DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis and structure prediction, genome mapping, gene identification, molecular biology data and knowledge bases, and the modeling of biochemical processes. We are continuing the tradition of soliciting original papers, which will be rigorously refereed and published (by AAAI Press and the MIT Press) in proceedings available at the conference. The conference proceedings are indexed in the Medline database. The previous ISMB meetings were 1993: National Library of Medicine, USA 1994: Stanford University, USA 1995: Cambridge University, UK The four-day conference will feature introductory and advanced tutorials on June 12th and presentations of original refereed papers, posters, and invited talks (June 13-15). There will be special sessions at the conference on "Whole Genomes: Challenges and Implications," and on the "Interconnection of Molecular Biology Databases (MIMBD)." A test suite of raw data will be set aside to evaluate base-calling and gene-finding programs. A job fair and a vendor fair are also being organized. Organizing committee David States (states@ibc.wustl.edu) Terry Gaasterland (gaasterl@mcs.anl.gov) Randall Smith (rsmith@imgen.bcm.tmc.edu) Keynote Speakers Robert Waterston, Washington Univ., St. Louis David Haussler, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz Russell Doolittle, Univ. of California, San Diego Chris Sander, EMBL, Heidelberg Contact address ISMB '96 Institute for Biomedical Computing Washington University 700 South Euclid Avenue St. Louis, MO 63110-1012 USA Phone: (314) 362-2134 FAX: (314) 362-0234 -- David J. States Institute for Biomedical Computing / Washington University in St. Louis From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Feb 02 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!infobiogen.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!dsi.unimi.it!!usenet From: gigi@risc2.iaif.pa.cnr.it (Gigi San Biagio) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Electrophoresis Publisher Date: 2 Feb 1996 16:23:25 GMT Organization: C.N.R., IAIF, via Archirafi 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4etdpt$tpd@etabeta.iaif.pa.cnr.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: gigi.iaif.pa.cnr.it Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 Hi I would like to know the Publisher address of the journal "Electrophoresis" Thanks in advance ! Gigi From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Feb 02 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!neubio.sld.ar!Postmaster From: Postmaster@neubio.sld.ar (Administrador del Nodo) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: All physicists aren't alike! (Formerly: Query on Dendritic Networks) SHARED WITH BIOPHYSIC@NET.BIO.NET Date: 3 Feb 1996 04:52:17 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 156 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <217bc754@neubio.sld.ar> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net >Received: by neubio.sld.ar (UUPC/pcmail 1.0095/RAN (2)) with UUCP; Fri, 02 Feb 96 16:07:20 ARG >>From net.bio.net!BIOSCI-REQUEST Fri, 02 Feb 96 16:07:20 1996 ARG remote from secyt >To: neur-sci@net.bio.net >From: Postmaster@neubio.gov.ar (M.F. Crocco) >Subject: All physicists aren't alike! (Formerly: Query on Dendritic Networks) >Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 17:36:50 -0300 >Message-ID: <4eojt2$4mn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> >NNTP-Posting-Host: s.psych.uiuc.edu >X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 > > > > > Dear neuronetters, not all physicists are alike! > Here physicists as myself, usually having also several additional >degrees (as MD or others ScDs or PhDs), do stain our hands (often from >feet to the last hair, indeed) since 1899 on. We often also hate >mathematicians :-) as perverters of modern physics, and labour for a >contemporaneous physics recognizing and implementing the >physicalness of one-witness facts! We work too on industrial >problems that the U.S. NSF (on criteria that we deride as >preposterous) does not even dare to envisage, to not offend its >societal prefigurations. However we deeply share the mailed concerns >about physicists and engineers on integrative neurothing. I remember: some >a quarter of century ago, my foregoer as Director received a unforeseen >visit. This was a clean engineer that made himself locally known as expert >on brain science or some like thing, and who by politics attained >having been designed as new director. He introduced himself, and made my >foregoer, Prof. Diego Luis Outes, to learn of his politic replacement. >Prof.Outes gave him an scalpel and phlegmatically rebutted: "Yes? >Oh, well. In the next room you have four corpses and the animals of >today. You can begin immediately!" And accompanied the clean >engineer to the morgue inducing him to extract the brains, to whose >purpose Prof. Outes overkindly continued furnishing him with new >instruments to embitter the engineer's awe. > I lack words to portray the sudden changements in the face of the >mathematically brain expert, but no one here shall never forget his >desperate flight downstairs and through the park. He never returned. >Nor talked of neuroscience again. > I think that the mailed expressions are fair, but only referred to >the physicists of the Pythagoric-Parmenidean tradition. This not seldom >is shared also by neuroscientists but, as many netters know, we are >hylozoist. Let me quote myself from a paper that I find proper to the >point - and perhaps you can find spirited: > "Iron-branded, interim, by an all-penetrating naturalist- >humanist transdisciplinarity peculiarly understood not as a >juxtaposition of specialists but in the sense cultivated, say, by Weber, >Fechner and von Helmholtz, the so called Argentine-German >Neurobiological School, incepted since 1879 though fully fledged only >since 1899, struck roots in momentous electroneurobiological >experiments; i. e., in the much-needed, worldwide-first >electrostimulation mapping of an exposed, conscious human brain >heroically prolonged during eight months (from September 1883 to >May 1884) against overwhelming odds that risked the subject's death >and the experimenter's loss of career and marriage, and silenced >over a century by a plagiarist. Here, contrarily to the aforesaid >obloquious conviction, some of us (initially the physicists), in the past >thirty years reacted against those adventitious limiting features. To do >it, these physicists were at once uncompelled, perhaps mostly by dint >of our very remoteness -neither behaviourism nor neuronism >thundered here, nor emergentistic complexity theories, nor outlooks >glad to forgo natural facts by self-limiting to analyze formulations-, >while also stimulated by certain explosive internal conceptual tension >regarding time. This conceptual tension was bequeathed by one of >the tradition's founders, harbinger and chief mentor, the >neurobiologist devoted since 1906 to model neuropilar >psychogenesis on gestalt reverberating interference patterns Prof. Dr. >Christfried Jakob (1866-1956). Withstanding chiefly these >adventitious features' prescriptions to prefigure acceptable findings, >especially that the dimensions for variation of one-witness natural >realities ought to be the very same as if their diversity and changes >were simple differences and variations in the astronomical- or >workroom-space distribution and aggregation of tangible masses >following traceable trajectories, they recognized that a more >efficacious enunciation horizon ought to enhance the present-day >mathematizable biophysics, and developed a new concept of the >brain organ out of the intersection of some eighty important advances. > That crucial defect in the kinetized modern physics was, and >is, specially conspicuous for physicists working in mental health, as in >this remote tradition, hitherto prevalently confined to regional bounds. >Besides their having to wonder professionally for the processes of >psychogenesis (and of its disfunctions) from their special standpoint >as physicists, as a part of their daily tasks in brain biophysics or >physicochemistry different from the duties physicists fulfill in other >subfields of our science, further singular facts exist, moreover, proper >of this parochial jurisdiction of mental health but seldom contemplated >abroad, often discussed at our local daigaku kiyoo (working papers). > These peculiar facts plainly signal to them, and insistently >remark, what in other subfields of physics the syncretic myth far more >effectively disguises, without encounter therein any apt disagreement. >Among these facts peculiar of mental health concerns, let us signal a >clarifying clinical condition (of neuropathologic, criminologic and >psychiatric import; when congenital, oft associated with certain >genetic endowment that exaggerates exploratory behaviour in animals >and a Heideggerian "sensation-" or "novelty-avidity" in humans) found >in some psychopaths, whom the German neuropsychiatry designates >as having a "chilly soul". These very cold psychopathic personalities, >capable of the most hideous tortures and vicious manslaughters, >often suffer in their brain from a particular disjoining which sunders >certain temporal-lobe and supraorbitary parts (more accurately: a >fronto-supraorbitary and temporo-hippocampal disconnection. Cursorily >we also shall look in below on milder forms of this condition, >as regards to some cultural traditions that selectively promote >puritanic humour and rigourous personalities, specifying at that point >the pertinent references). Let us point out here how the unforeseen >acquaintance with such patients faces these physicists, active on >basic research in mental hygiene, with that unfittingness of our >physical science, so often unobtrusive elsewhere. Said psychopaths, >usually because of their severance or misshape of some brain circuits >(the uncinate fascicle, or other) fail in their empathy. Some of them >seem to believe that they are, indeed, persons while the remaining >people, in their opinion, no. For a moment one can try to imagine this >outrageous failure in empathy, by fancying in a flash to be the unique, >sole and lonely person in the Universe while on the contrary every >remaining people walking around form part of a fellowship of robots: a >population of deambulating neural networks, wandering lexicons or >nomadic statues. Amid such particulars, torture becomes >understandable as a mean to excruciate a communication extremely >yearned for, as i.e., told to our researchers by R.-P., an inmate known >as "the murderer of the Panamerican Road" who, to exact any >rejoinder evincing him that he indeed was not alone, among other >epistemologically inelegant resources put a soldering iron to work on >the face of such (firmly laced) "statues" while furiously inquiring them >if they did "feel something". In such a bizarre neighborhood, frankly >uncustomary for most other physicists, those physicists working in >mental health cannot but remark the coincidence of these "cool of >soul" psychopaths, reputing people to be perambulating neural >networkings, with those neuroscientists also trying to depict their -and >our- brains as insentient neural nets in shocking outcome of their >exogenist physics. > How to reproach the insane, but not the erudite, just for the >same neglect?" > >(Quoted from: "Physical assessment of the added interactions >among non-distributed references >of distributed reverberations in the brain gray", M.F. Crocco , >Electroneurobiologia 1 (5), 94-162, Nov. 1994) > > =@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@ Prof. M.F. Crocco, Director, Centro de Investig. Neurobiologicas, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Argentine Republic; and Head, Lab. of Electroneurobiological Res., Hospital "Dr. Jose Tiburcio Borda", Municipality of Buenos Aires, Office: Phone/Fax (54 1) 306 -7314 e-mail Standard disclaimer: Las opiniones de este mensaje son personales y no comprometen las dependencias a cargo del firmante Reply to THIS message, ONLY to: =@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Feb 03 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!neubio.sld.ar!Postmaster From: Postmaster@neubio.sld.ar (Administrador del Nodo) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: All physicists aren't alike! (Formerly: Query on Dendritic Networks) Date: 3 Feb 1996 16:28:15 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 53 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <651bc148@neubio.sld.ar> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net >From uucp Sat, 03 Feb 96 18:02:32 ARG >Received: by neubio.sld.ar (UUPC/pcmail 1.0095/RAN (2)) with UUCP; Sat, 03 Feb 96 18:02:32 ARG >>From buphyc.bu.edu!BC Sat Feb 3 12:57:22 1996 remote from secyt >Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:55:27 -0300 >From: BC@buphyc.bu.edu >Subject: Re: All physicists aren't alike! (Formerly: Query on Dendritic Networks) >To: Postmaster@neubio.sld.ar >Message-id: <01I0RVHI0UDU0014IW@buphyc.bu.edu> >X-VMS-To: IN%"Postmaster@neubio.sld.ar" >MIME-version: 1.0 >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > >Today wrote: > >> Get real. The folks who do nothing but slice and dice have hardly >>answered all possible questions about the brain, consciousness, etc. >>The world needs its mathematicians, its simulators, its brave >>followers of new fads, such as complexity. Some of this stuff may >>have a payoff, some not, but the same can be said for any science >>except the most pedestrian small-gain-run-another-sample science, >>and who needs that ? > >Dear BC@buphyc.bu.edu , > > Yes, we need mathematicians but not in every role. To artificially >produce subjective characterizations as industry needs, what we lack >is (1) a cultural change to end minding them as "qualia" or second- >rank physical facts; (2) not reducing them to structures (amenable to >mathematical treatment) but investigating their factual production and >its regularities as we do since almost a century without resources, while >viewing their dilapidation in badly envisaged projects; (3) THEN asking >mathematicians for refurbishing their science (perhaps with a new geo- >metric theory of measure) to help us. Did you read UK Patent 1,582,301? > > Best wishes, =@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@ Prof. M.F. Crocco, Director, Centro de Investig. Neurobiologicas, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Argentine Republic; and Head, Lab. of Electroneurobiological Res., Hospital "Dr. Jose Tiburcio Borda", Municipality of Buenos Aires, Office: Phone/Fax (54 1) 306 -7314 e-mail Standard disclaimer: Las opiniones de este mensaje son personales y no comprometen las dependencias a cargo del firmante Reply to THIS message, ONLY to: =@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Feb 03 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!BRI.NRC.CA!Feng.Ni From: Feng.Ni@BRI.NRC.CA (Feng Ni) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS IN PROTEIN NMR SPECTROSCOPY Date: 4 Feb 1996 20:18:04 GMT Organization: Institut de recherche en biotechnologie, Montréal Lines: 34 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f349s$qm7@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: indy.bri.nrc.ca POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS IN BIOPHYSICAL AND PROTEIN NMR SPECTROSCOPY There are one or two postdoctoral positions available in the NMR laboratory of the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI). Our research centers on proteins in blood coagulation, protease regulation and ligand-receptor interactions. Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree in chemistry, biochemistry or a related area and have demonstrated abbilities in carrying out creative research. Knowledge of high-resolution NMR spectroscopy is desirable and experience in protein/pep- tide purification is an important asset. Through their work at BRI, postdoc- toral fellows obtain experience in the use of NMR spectroscopy to characterize the structures and the biophysical properties of proteins and protein-protein complexes. Postdoctoral fellows are paid an annual salary of $23,000-$28,000 according to the MRC guidelines. Exceptional candidates may be promoted to more senior posi- tions offerred by the National Research Council of Canada. Qualified individuals are invited to forward your resume to: Feng Ni, Ph.D. Head of Biomolecular NMR Biotechnology Research Institute 6100 Royalmount Avenue Montreal, Quebec, H4P 2R2 Canada phone: (514)-496-6729 fax: (514)-496-5143 e_mail: fengni@bri.nrc.ca Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. We thank all applicants for their interests, however, only those being considered will be contacted. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Feb 03 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!col.hp.com!csn!ub!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!usenet From: Tom Chou Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Where can I get DelPhi? Date: 4 Feb 1996 21:18:30 GMT Organization: LASSP, Cornell Univ. Lines: 13 Sender: tc42@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <4f37r6$51n@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rahab.msc.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; AIX 2) X-URL: news:bionet.biophysics Hi all, I'm wondering what codes exist for numerical solution to nonlinear poisson boltzmann-type electrostatic problems for macromolecules/organelles/other biological structures. I heard of one called DelPhi. Does anyone know where I can get this? Are there other related shareware codes out there? Thanks, Tom From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Feb 03 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!TELEPAC.PT!pftavares From: pftavares@TELEPAC.PT (Paulo Freitas Tavares) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Iron in ashes Date: 4 Feb 1996 13:27:38 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 22 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199602042222.WAA21697@mail.telepac.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Netters I need to dose correctly the total body Iron amount of Rats. I thought of heating them at 600 C for a few hours to reduce them to ashes, and then, knowing the Rat weight, the total ashes weight, dosing the total iron contained in a sample of the ashes. Atomic absorbance is very expensive for the number of analisys I need and is out of the question. I need a reliable and acurrate chemical/physical method for this determination. I tried with a bit of pork meat with some bone. Ashes came out fine and lite grey. BUT they don't dissolve completely in water... I need to know: 1-Is there a better solvent for the ashes? 2-Is there any trick to remove all the Iron from the ashes to a solvent even leaving some deposit? 3-What is the better method for dosing the iron? Thank you very much Paulo Tavares, MD From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 04 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ks.uiuc.edu!dalke From: dalke@ks.uiuc.edu (Andrew Dalke) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Where can I get DelPhi? Date: 5 Feb 1996 08:11:19 GMT Organization: TB BI Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f4e37$iss@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4f37r6$51n@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ulm.ks.uiuc.edu You can get information atou DelPhi from Barry Honig's lab at Columbia. The web page is at http://tincan.bioc.columbia.edu/delphi/ > The source code is distributed by anonymous ftp in encrypted form. If you > agree to the conditions of the License Agreement, EMail me for the key to > decrypt the archive. Instructions for extracting the program can be found > in the README file. There is a fee of $250 to license the program; and > Inquiries to S. Sridharan (sridhara@cumbij.bioc.columbia.edu) Andrew dalke@ks.uiuc.edu From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 04 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!ponder.csci.unt.edu!dcurry From: dcurry@ponder.csci.unt.edu (David Curry) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Career advice wanted Date: 5 Feb 1996 05:34:53 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 11 Message-ID: <4f44tt$kic@hermes.acs.unt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponder.csci.unt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have recently discovered biophysics and find it absolutely fascinating! I will be receiving (fingers crossed!) an MS in physics and another in Computer Science this May. I then hope to pursue a PhD in biophysics. What I would like to know is if anyone out there knows of any schools or labs working in conjunction with a school which are interested in the computational aspects of biophysics? Is there any real interest in the subject? -- David Curry Center for Nonlinear Science, UNT From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 04 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!concert!bigblue.oit.unc.edu!mmlds1.pha.unc.edu!iiv From: Iosif Vaisman Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.molec-model,bionet.xtallography,bionet.molbio.proteins,bionet.structural-nmr Subject: Gordon Conference on Water and Aqueous Solutions Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 11:36:42 -0500 Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 158 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: mmlds1.pha.unc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1679 bionet.molec-model:804 bionet.xtallography:2352 bionet.molbio.proteins:6937 bionet.structural-nmr:1088 Crossposted from Water Science Network (water@listserv.unc.edu) Gordon Research Conference PHYSICS AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF WATER AND AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS Aug 4 - Aug 9, 1996 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ George E. Walrafen, Chair H. Eugene Stanley, Vice Chair ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ WATER IN PROTEINS--------------(Sunday evening, 4 Aug) A. Parsegian-------------------(Session chair) P. Nicholls/P. Kahn/R. Wolfenden ------------------------------------------------------ AMORPHOUS ICE TO HOT WATER----(Monday morning, 5 Aug) J. Teixeira--------------------(Session chair) G. Johari/O. Mishima/ A. Geiger/M. Neumann/ P. Debenedetti-----------------(Commentator) SCATTERING: X-RAY, NEUTRON-----(Monday evening, 5 Aug) M.-C. Bellissent-Funel---------(Session chair) T. Yamaguchi/A. Soper PLENARY POSTER SESSION #1 H. E. Stanley------------------(Poster chair) ------------------------------------------------------ ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS/HOLE BURNING-(Tuesday morning, 6 Aug) A. Laubereau-------------------(Session chair) E. Castner/R. J. Dwayne-Miller/ G. J. Small/H. Graener/ W. T. Lotshaw------------------(Commentator) LOW-FREQUENCY RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY--(Tuesday evening, 6 Aug) Y. Tominaga--------------------(Session chair) Y. C. Chu/Y. Kameda/ O. Faurskov-Nielsen------------(Commentator) ------------------------------------------------------- HYDRATION OF BIOMOLECULES------(Wednesday morning, 7 Aug) B. Schoenborn------------------(Session chair) S. Leikin/H. Berman/ A. Gronenborn/E. Mayer ICES AND CAGES-----------------(Wednesday evening, 7 Aug) P. Kusalik---------------------(Session chair) I. Svishchev/S.-H. Chen PLEANARY POSTER SESSION #2 H. E. Stanley------------------(Poster chair) ------------------------------------------------------- STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF H-BONDED SYSTEMS---------------(Thursday morning, 8 Aug) C. A. Angell-------------------(Session chair) A. Luzar/T. Head-Gordon/ R. Saykally/N. Agmon THURSDAY EVENING: BANQUET, BUSINESS SESSION, ELECTION OF VICE CHAIR, ETC. CRITICAL PHENOMENA-------------(Thursday evening, 8 Aug) G. E. Walrafen-----------------(Session chair) B. Widom-----------------------(45 minute special speaker) Professor Widom's lecture will be a wide overview of the developments in CRITICAL PHENOMENA from the early days of the subject to the most recent exciting developments, such as renormalization group theory, etc. ----------------END OF CONFERENCE------------------------ THE POSTERS WILL BE ON DISPLAY ALL WEEK LONG!!! INFORMATION: Tentative poster titles for Gene Stanley's PLENARY POSTER SESSIONS, should be sent by E-mail or FAX directly to Gene (HES@BU.EDU, 617-353-3783). These poster sessions will be held on Monday and Wednesday evenings. The posters will be on display all week long, and they will be displayed in the big, well-lighted, red school house. The poster boards are 4 ft. X 8 ft., so there will be plenty of room for your material. More than one poster per person is also possible. We also want to emphasize as strongly as we can that EARLY REGISTRATION is absolutely essential. No applicants will be accepted by the GRC after about 135 people have registered!!!! Contact the GRC office; phone (401)-783-4011 or -3372; FAX (401)-783-7644; E-MAIL grc@grcmail.grc.uri.edu to obtain your registration forms. The GRC has streamlined the registration procedures. For example, they can take registration payments by FAX if you give your credit card number on their form, sign it, and FAX it back. We will also mail out some registration forms to people who are definitely attending, or to people who attended in 1994. However, it is best to get your materials yourself from the GRC people. We plan mini- or ground-zero review for most sessions. These will be presented by the session chairs. The ground-zero reviews will involve overviews of the talks to follow in each session. The ground- zero reviews WILL NOT involve talks by the session chairs about their own work. The ground-zero reviews are intended to introduce each session for people in the audience who may not be familiar with the previous work in the area of the session. We will also have two micro-reviews Monday evening and Wednesday evening to save time for the poster sessions to follow. In addition we will have commentators (about 5 minutes) following the sessions on Monday morning, Tuesday morning, and Wednesday evening. The purpose of the commentators is to present a summing up, as well as to indicate problems, or regions of work which should be exploited in the future. Our Thusday evening speaker, after the banquet, will be Professor Ben Widom from Cornell University. This will really be a special treat for all of us. Professor Widom will tell us about developments in "CRITICAL PHENOMENA" from the past to the present. Our mixer will be held Sunday afternoon starting roughly at 4:30 or 5:00 p.m. before the full dinner on Sunday evening. This year you will get a dinner, and not a mini-dinner, on Sunday evening. Gene Stanley and I hope to greet all of you in person at the mixer. Adrian Parsegian is helping us with the reception, and he is also the first session chair, Sunday night. We could hardly have gotten a better person for both assignments. He has assured me that he will pick up the liquid refreshments for us on his way to the conference. Remember, REGISTER SOON. We hope to see you in August. Sincerely yours, George Walrafen Chair Ph:(202)-806-6897 Fax:(202)-806-5475 e-mail:YCC@SCS.HOWARD.EDU H. Eugene Stanley Vice Chair Ph:(617)-353-2617 FAX:(617)-353-3783 e-mail:HES@BU.EDU From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 04 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU!RHODES From: RHODES@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Housing for Baltimore Date: 5 Feb 1996 04:41:25 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 18 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <960205.073900.EST.RHODES@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Perhaps I should have saved the message that appeared here a few weeks ago, but... Male, nonsmoking biophysicist has 0.5 room available at the Days Inn Inner Harbor and seeks same to reduce costs of attending the meetings. If your primary criteria for meeting housing are clean, cheap room close to the meeting site, please contact me ASAP. The room rate is $80 (x0.5=$40) and it is located as close as you can get without paying 39-49% more. Thanks!! | O==O | | DAVID G. RHODES O==O PHONE 860-486-5413 | | SCHOOL OF PHARMACY; U-92 O==O FAX 860-486-1553 | | UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT O==O | | STORRS, CT 06269-2092 O==O RHODES@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU | | O==O | From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 04 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.tuwien.ac.at!fbma.tuwien.ac.at!e8627164 From: e8627164@fbma.tuwien.ac.at (Otto Hainzl) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Axoplasm resistivity Date: 5 Feb 1996 20:23:29 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4f5p01$k5h@news.tuwien.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: fbma.tuwien.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I am working on a thesis modeling different neuron types on the basis of Hodkin & Huxley and Sweeney equations. I am looking for precise values of the axoplasm resistivity. Most publications take 0.1 kOhm cm. Do you know of any more precise values (+ reference). There must be a work of Hodkin & Huxley which I did not find where they give a resistivity per cm. Does anybody the value or know where I can find that. Thanks a lot, Otto From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 04 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!gimbel.com!ocuzzani From: ocuzzani@gimbel.com ("Dr. Cuzzani") Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: unsubscribe Date: 5 Feb 1996 14:10:54 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 7 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199602052210.OAA25066@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Unsubscribe byophys.net.bio.net Oscar Cuzzani, MD, DSc Gimbel Eye Centre Suite #450- 4935 40th. Ave. NW Calgary, AB Canada T3A 2N1 Tel: 403-286-6969 Fax: 403-286-2943 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 05 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!uni-erlangen.de!winx03!wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de!not-for-mail From: krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de (Cornelius Krasel) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Iron in ashes Date: 5 Feb 1996 09:28:19 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f4ijj$e56@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <199602042222.WAA21697@mail.telepac.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Paulo Freitas Tavares (pftavares@TELEPAC.PT) wrote: > I tried with a bit of pork meat with some bone. Ashes came out fine > and lite grey. BUT they don't dissolve completely in water... That's not very surprising. I would try to use something like conc. HCl. I have no idea on how to quantitate FeCl3 but I think it should be possible by titration. Check out books about complexometry; maybe iodometry may work as well. --Cornelius. -- /* Cornelius Krasel, U Wuerzburg, Dept. of Pharmacology, Versbacher Str. 9 */ /* D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany email: phak004@rzbox.uni-wuerzburg.de SP3 */ /* "Science is the game we play with God to find out what His rules are." */ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 05 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: mmason@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us (Mike Mason) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.plants Subject: C-3 or C-4? Date: 6 Feb 1996 12:37:17 -0800 Organization: Mt. Shasta High School Lines: 7 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1689 bionet.plants:10207 Can anyone tell me how to tell a C-3 type plant from a C-4 type of plant? Is there any easy way to distinguish the two? - Bubba From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 05 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!usenet From: "Jack Linehan, Ph.D." Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,sci.engr.biomed,sci.image.processing Subject: Whitaker Biomedical Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in Functional Imaging - Marquette Univ. Date: 6 Feb 1996 20:19:54 GMT Organization: Marquette University, Biomedical Engineering Lines: 61 Message-ID: <4f8d5a$pin@spool.mu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: biomed1.bioeng.mu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1688 sci.engr.biomed:5423 sci.image.processing:18221 Whitaker Foundation Fellowships in Functional Imaging Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin have received a Whitaker Foundation Special Opportunity Award to establish a joint Ph. D. program in the area of functional imaging. Functional imaging, as means of simultaneously quantifying the structural and functional aspects of a biological system, is emerging as a new interdisciplinary activity of particular interest to biomedical engineers. An aim of our program is to provide Ph.D. level educational opportunities for biomedical engineers interested in solving biological and medical problems at the integrative level of physiology. Advances in imaging technology are making available an unprecedented amount of structural, kinematic, and kinetic data in intact organs for biomedical engineers to study organ structure-function relationships with increasingly high levels of resolution and quantification. Modern functional imaging modalities thereby provide the experimental tools to address significant physiological questions in a relatively non-invasive manner. With extant x-ray microfocal angiography and functional magnetic resonance imaging laboratories, Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin offer special opportunities for biomedical engineering research. In addition to the research experience, each student will, in consultation with the faculty, design a curriculum appropriate for their background and career goals. Marquette University is Wisconsin’s largest independent institution of higher learning and is located in downtown Milwaukee. For more than three decades Marquette has had an active graduate program in Biomedical Engineering. The department offers Master’s and doctoral programs. The interdisciplinary nature of the program, a blend of engineering and life sciences, is reflected both in the research activities of the faculty and graduate students, and in the variety of courses available. Research is conducted not only on Marquette’s campus but in closely affiliated laboratories at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the V.A. Medical Center. In the first year of the program, there are three Whitaker Fellowships available for highly qualified students interested in pursuing the Ph. D. The stipend is $15,000 and includes a tuition scholarship. Applicants will be expected to have a baccalaureate degree with a major in engineering or physics with preference given to biomedical engineering graduates with the appropriate life sciences background. Each applicant will submit official transcripts, GRE scores, and three letters of recommendation. Applications and further information can be obtained from: Dr. John H. Linehan Bagozzi Professor and Chair Department of Biomedical Engineering Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 linehanj@vms.csd.mu.edu Application deadline: March 1, 1996 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 05 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!usenet From: "Jack Linehan, Ph.D." Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,sci.image.processing,sci.engr.biomed Subject: Whitaker Biomedical Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in Functional Imaging - Marquette Univ. Date: 6 Feb 1996 20:17:36 GMT Organization: Marquette University, Biomedical Engineering Lines: 63 Message-ID: <4f8d10$pin@spool.mu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: biomed1.bioeng.mu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1687 sci.image.processing:18220 sci.engr.biomed:5422 Whitaker Foundation Fellowships in Functional Imaging Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin have received a Whitaker Foundation Special Opportunity Award to establish a joint Ph. D. program in the area of functional imaging. Functional imaging, as means of simultaneously quantifying the structural and functional aspects of a biological system, is emerging as a new interdisciplinary activity of particular interest to biomedical engineers. An aim of our program is to provide Ph.D. level educational opportunities for biomedical engineers interested in solving biological and medical problems at the integrative level of physiology. Advances in imaging technology are making available an unprecedented amount of structural, kinematic, and kinetic data in intact organs for biomedical engineers to study organ structure-function relationships with increasingly high levels of resolution and quantification. Modern functional imaging modalities thereby provide the experimental tools to address significant physiological questions in a relatively non-invasive manner. With extant x-ray microfocal angiography and functional magnetic resonance imaging laboratories, Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin offer special opportunities for biomedical engineering research. In addition to the research experience, each student will, in consultation with the faculty, design a curriculum appropriate for their background and career goals. Marquette University is Wisconsin’s largest independent institution of higher learning and is located in downtown Milwaukee. For more than three decades Marquette has had an active graduate program in Biomedical Engineering. The department offers Master’s and doctoral programs. The interdisciplinary nature of the program, a blend of engineering and life sciences, is reflected both in the research activities of the faculty and graduate students, and in the variety of courses available. Research is conducted not only on Marquette’s campus but in closely affiliated laboratories at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the V.A. Medical Center. In the first year of the program, there are three Whitaker Fellowships available for highly qualified students interested in pursuing the Ph. D. The stipend is $15,000 and includes a tuition scholarship. Applicants will be expected to have a baccalaureate degree with a major in engineering or physics with preference given to biomedical engineering graduates with the appropriate life sciences background. Each applicant will submit official transcripts, GRE scores, and three letters of recommendation. Applications and further information can be obtained from: Dr. John H. Linehan Bagozzi Professor and Chair Department of Biomedical Engineering Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 linehanj@vms.csd.mu.edu Application deadline: March 1, 1996 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 05 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!demos!dnews-server From: "Zubrianov Igor L." Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Requirement for grant Date: 6 Feb 1996 14:14:27 +0300 Organization: Firm AMITY Lines: 13 Sender: news-server@news.demos.su Distribution: world Message-ID: Reply-To: igor@amity.alma-ata.su NNTP-Posting-Host: root@news.demos.su X-mailer: dMail [Demos Mail for DOS v1.23] X-Return-Path: news.demos.su!kremvax.demos.su!ricc.alma-ata.su!amity!amity.alma-ata.su!igor Can you advice us how to take the grant support for following projects: 1. Influence of non-equlibrium states of a neer-membrane electrolyte layer close to cell surface on reversible erythrocytes aggregation and formation of non-Newtonian hydrodynamic properties of blood. 2. Deformability and aggregation of human erythrocytes in presence of ethanol. Thank's in advance Institute of Biotechnology Pharmacy, Republic of Kazakhstan Boris.S.Balmukhanov, Ph.D. igor@amity.alma-ata.su From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 05 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!gossip.pyramid.com!news.sedona.net!usenet From: Ann Rathbun Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: East Coast/Analytical Biochem, Manager Date: 5 Feb 1996 18:59:45 GMT Organization: Sedona Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 50 Message-ID: <4f5k31$6h5@labrat.sedona.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: client8.sedona.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Manager, Analytical Biochemistry Development We are seeking a Manager for a newly formed Methods Development group with our biopharmaceutical client company on the East Coast. The successful Ph.D.-level Protein Biochemist will be responsible for methods development for the characterization and evaluation of [protein] products and processes for our biopharmaceutical client company. Candidates must have exceptionally strong communication skills as he/she will be the key link with the company’s foreign collaborators and will be responsible for putting forth ideas and plans to implement their various projects. Skills/Background: · Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry or related discipline; · Analytical methods development for proteins, esp. recombinant; · Strong Mass Spec experience with is a requirement; · 4 plus years postdoc with supervisory [hiring, promotion and firing responsibilities] experience; · Industry experience is preferred; · Ideally this person will have GMP and Regulatory filing experience. Other Desired Skills: Amino Acid Analysis Bioassay Chromatography Circular Dichroism Electrophoresis HPLC Sequencing, N- & C- terminal Structure/Function Tryptic Mapping If you have an interest in this or other opportunities, please mail or FAX your CV/resume to RS&A to the attention of Ann G. Rathbun, Managing Director. All correspondence is held in strict confidence. Rathbun, Sapir & Associates P.O. Box 2337 Sedona, AZ 86339-2337 * USA (520) 284-3360 Office (520) 284-3361 FAX E-mail: rathbun@ sedona.net From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 05 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!col.hp.com!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!news.ums.edu!umabnet.ab.umd.edu!umabnet.ab.umd.edu!vpratuse From: "Dr. Victor Pratusevich" Newsgroups: bionet.biology.cardiovascular,bionet.biophysics,sci.bio Subject: HELP: Effects of glucocorticoids on heart cells Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 13:06:40 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland at Baltimore Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <4ev08d$4m@bubbla.uri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: umabnet.ab.umd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: Xref: biosci bionet.biology.cardiovascular:778 bionet.biophysics:1690 I would appreciate any pointers to literature sources/experiences relevant to the topic above. Please reply via e-mail. Thanks for consideration. Victor Pratusevich,Ph.D. Univ.of MD at Baltimore (410)706-2678 victor@wgw.ab.umd.edu From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 05 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.emi.com!pauling.wadsworth.org!tivol From: tivol@news.wadsworth.org (William Tivol) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Iron in ashes Date: 6 Feb 1996 22:21:43 GMT Organization: Wadsworth Center, NY Health Dept. Lines: 11 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f8k9n$340@pauling.wadsworth.org> References: <199602042222.WAA21697@mail.telepac.pt> <4f4ijj$e56@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: alcor.wadsworth.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Cornelius Krasel (krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote: : I have no idea on how to quantitate FeCl3 but I think it should be possible : by titration. One method would be to reduce the Fe to Fe++, complex with 1,10 phenanthrolene and use spectrophotometry. I did the last two steps to quantitate Fe++. I cannot easily locate the referrence, but I found it in a book by Calvert and Pitts (I think it was called "Photochemistry"). Yours, Bill Tivol From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue Feb 06 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.math.psu.edu!psuvax1!news.eecs.nwu.edu!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!news.cc.uic.edu!usenet From: aspiess@uic.edu (alexander m. spiess) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: new mol/bio site Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 01:02:32 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Lines: 3 Message-ID: <4f6d2j$79nu@tigger.cc.uic.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: e021.phyb.uic.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 some interesting molecular biology bookmarks/resources. http://www.uic.edu/~aspiess/ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue Feb 06 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!news.wau.nl!usenet From: paul van den wijngaard Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Perfusion electrode holder Date: 7 Feb 1996 08:23:43 GMT Organization: pf.wau.nl Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4f9nif$4m0@Trex.IenD.wau.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: flex073.pf.wau.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) I want to ask if anyone has any experience with a perfusion type electrode holder in patch clamp experiments. I want to use this type of holder for adding precursor protein inside the patch pipette in an inside out patch. If anyone has any experience with adding substances inside a patch pipette, using this type of electrode holder please let me know. Thanks in advance. Paul van den Wijngaard dept. of Plant Physiology Wageningen Agricultural University Arboretumlaan 4 6703 BD Wageningen The Netherlands e-mail: paul.vandenwijngaard@guest.pf.wau.nl From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue Feb 06 22:00:00 1996 From: thchang@msn.com (jack chang) Subject: Electrostatic Therapy (need help) Date: 7 Feb 96 06:34:10 -0800 Message-ID: <00003361+00000263@msn.com> Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.msn.com!msn.com Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Organization: The Microsoft Network (msn.com) Lines: 7 I am looking for a health device manafacturer which makes Electrostatic Therapy equipment. Does anyone know the information? Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks. please e-mail me at thchang@msn.com From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Feb 07 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: drjackbud@aol.com (DrJackBud) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Animal Models in Toxicology: Discussion Topic Date: 8 Feb 1996 15:30:31 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 7 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4fdmh7$ki1@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: drjackbud@aol.com (DrJackBud) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com I would like to call your attention to a discussion that is currently taking place in on animal models in toxicology, specifically, and animal models in biology, in general. This topic may be of interest to those who frequent this newsgroup. Your participation is welcome! John A. Budny From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Feb 07 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!news.jmu.edu!usenet From: STU_EDELLIS@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (EDWARD D ELLIS) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: careers in biophysics Date: 8 Feb 1996 19:22:41 GMT Organization: James Madison University Lines: 25 Sender: STU_EDELLIS@jmu.edu Message-ID: <4fdii1$p61@doc.jmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.jmu.edu X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS v1.25 I'm looking for some advice on the job opportunities in the field of biophysics. I am currently a senior physics major with a mathematics minor. I have an interest in both condensed matter physics and biophysics. I have applied to Ph.D. programs in physics and biophysics and have been accepted to both type of programs. I feel that I would be satisfied with pursuing a career in either of these two fields, thus I need some way of eliminating one or the other. I think I have a pretty good feel for what the job market is like in pure physics but I don't really have a clue about the biophysics side. I'm looking for information and opinions from professionals in the field of biophysics on what you feel the employment opportunities are like now and maybe in 6 years or more. My concern is that I don't want to spend six years in graduate school and end up only being able to find postdoc after postdoc for employment. Also, it seems by choosing the biophysics career path I lock myself into a pretty tight niche, whereas a Ph.D. in pure physics would allow one to transcend that engineering/physics boundary if needed. Please send replies to: Ellis@dirac.physics.jmu.edu Thanks in advance for your help. Darren Ellis From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Feb 08 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!lhc.nlm.nih.gov!crick.sura.net!lamarck.sura.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!BRI.NRC.CA!Feng.Ni From: Feng.Ni@BRI.NRC.CA (Feng Ni) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: POSITIONS IN PROTEIN NMR - SECOND ANOUNCEMENT Date: 9 Feb 1996 18:55:17 GMT Organization: Institut de recherche en biotechnologie, Montréal Lines: 39 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fg5al$75d@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: indy.bri.nrc.ca POSTDOCTORAL AND RESEARCHER POSITIONS IN BIOPHYSICAL AND PROTEIN NMR SPECTROSCOPY Postdoctoral and researcher positions are available in the NMR laboratory of the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI). Our research centers on proteins in blood coagulation, protease regulation and ligand-receptor interactions. Candidates must have a recent Ph.D. degree in chemistry, biochemistry or a related field and have demonstrated abilities (e.g. through publications) in carrying out creative research. Knowledge of high-resolution NMR spectroscopy is desirable and experience in protein/peptide purification is an important asset. Through their work at BRI, postdoctoral fellows obtain experience in the use of NMR spectroscopy to determine the structures and the biophysical properties of proteins and protein-protein complexes. Postdoctoral fellows are paid an annual salary of $23,000-$28,000 according to the MRC guidelines. Exceptional candidates may be promoted to senior research positions offerred by the National Research Council of Canada. Our institute is equipped with one Bruker AMX-500 NMR spectrometer and shares a second with members of the Montreal Joint Centre for Structural Biology. Funds are secured for a state-of-the-art higher field NMR instrument to be installed within the coming months. Qualified individuals are invited to forward your resume to: Feng Ni, Ph.D. Head of Biomolecular NMR Biotechnology Research Institute 6100 Royalmount Avenue Montreal, Quebec, H4P 2R2 Canada phone: (514)-496-6729 fax: (514)-496-5143 e_mail: fengni@bri.nrc.ca Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. We thank all applicants for their interests, however, only those being considered will be contacted. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Feb 08 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!news.uoregon.edu!news.orst.edu!ucs.orst.edu!ohk From: Kwang Oh Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.plants Subject: Re: C-3 or C-4? Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 17:27:11 -0800 Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ucs.orst.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1698 bionet.plants:10238 On 6 Feb 1996, Mike Mason wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to tell a C-3 type plant from a C-4 type of plant? > Is there any easy way to distinguish the two? > > - Bubba > An unique structure called bundle sheath is well developed on the leaves of c-4 plant. You'll see it easily under light microscope. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Feb 09 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.math.psu.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!usenet From: rwadkins@cbmse.nrl.navy.mil (rmw) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Career advice wanted Date: 6 Feb 1996 14:54:24 GMT Organization: His Own Little World Lines: 24 Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[3942] Message-ID: <4f7q30$q3a@ra.nrl.navy.mil> References: <4f44tt$kic@hermes.acs.unt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rmw-6900.nrl.navy.mil X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0.1@rmw-6900.nrl.navy.mil Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. In article <4f44tt$kic@hermes.acs.unt.edu> dcurry@ponder.csci.unt.edu (David Curry) writes: > I have recently discovered biophysics and find it absolutely fascinating! > I will be receiving (fingers crossed!) an MS in physics and another in > Computer Science this May. I then hope to pursue a PhD in biophysics. > What I would like to know is if anyone out there knows of any schools or > labs working in conjunction with a school which are interested in the > computational aspects of biophysics? Is there any real interest in the > subject? David: You might want to read the newsgroup sci.research.careers to see what problems you will be facing by getting a PhD. You might also post your question there. You are much more employable with a MS in Computer Science than with a PhD, so you should consider your career goals before signing on for another 2-4 years. Finally, computational chemistry (and/or structural biology) is one of the very few areas where there seems to be a continued demand (often from the pharmaceutical industry), and indeed, computational biophysics is an important aspect of this field. --Randy From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Feb 09 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!infobiogen.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dra.com!news.getnet.com!usenet From: ppm Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Radiation Detecting Wristwatch Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 21:05:32 -0800 Organization: GetNet, International, Inc. Lines: 10 Message-ID: <311C279C.611A@getnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phx-ip2-101.getnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win16; I) Introducing the first wristwatch that measures, detects, and counts radioactive radiation and x-rays. Instant Alarm when treshold surpassed, Dose Rate in mrem/h or mSv/h and Cumulative Dose recorded over 12 months period in mrem or mSv. For more info: http://gn2.getnet.com/~ppm/ Scientific feed-back is appreciated. Hans Kuerner From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Feb 10 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.IT.net!news.ULIsse.it!news.unige.it!dsi.unimi.it!sirio.cineca.it!gopher From: Albertino Bigiani Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Choline and K channels Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:34:20 +0000 Organization: Universit=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E0 di Modena?= Lines: 4 Message-ID: <311E6EEC.572D@c220.unimo.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-09.unimo.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Does anybody know if choline can permeate K channels or affect them in neurons or other types of cells? Thanks Albertino Bigiani From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!infomed.hin.gn.apc.org!uucp From: uucp@infomed.hin.gn.apc.org (0000-uucp(0000)) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: (none) Date: 12 Feb 1996 10:39:06 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 24 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9602121308.AA13050@infomed> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net From hin!gn!cdp!net.bio.net!BIOSCI-REQUEST Tue Feb 6 13:02:04 1996 remote from infomed Received: by infomed (5.65/1.35) id AA22981; Tue, 6 Feb 96 13:02:01 -0400 Received: from gn by hin with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0tjeSy-0009WQC; Mon, 5 Feb 96 22:53 CST Received: from net.bio.net (net.bio.net [204.31.212.2]) by cdp.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.214 ) with SMTP id OAA26112 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:43:39 -0800 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA25084; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:10:58 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA25080; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:10:56 -0800 To: biophys@net.bio.net From: infomed!gimbel.com!ocuzzani ("Dr. Cuzzani") Subject: unsubscribe Date: 5 Feb 1996 14:10:54 -0800 Sender: infomed!net.bio.net!daemon Message-Id: <199602052210.OAA25066@net.bio.net> Nntp-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Unsubscribe byophys.net.bio.net Oscar Cuzzani, MD, DSc Gimbel Eye Centre Suite #450- 4935 40th. Ave. NW Calgary, AB Canada T3A 2N1 Tel: 403-286-6969 Fax: 403-286-2943 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!infobiogen.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!peer-news.britain.eu.net!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!leicester!usenet From: "Dr E. Buxbaum" Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.plants Subject: Re: C-3 or C-4? Date: 12 Feb 1996 15:44:31 GMT Organization: University of Leicester, UK Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4fnn8v$eao@ipgate.le.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pc10.msb.le.ac.uk Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1707 bionet.plants:10267 mmason@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us (Mike Mason) wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to tell a C-3 type plant from a C-4 type of plant? > Is there any easy way to distinguish the two? Yes, the leaf anatomy is different. Just make a thin section (can be done with a razor blade) and look at it through the microscope. Any decent book on botany should have apporopriate pictures for comparison. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.tamu.edu!newshost.comco.com!news.texas.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!yama.mcc.ac.uk!daresbury!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!due.unit.no!kari.fm.unit.no!smule From: smule@fm.unit.no (Linda Mulehamn) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Norwegian Physics/Math students visiting U.S.A. Date: 12 Feb 1996 13:07:21 GMT Organization: The Norwegian University of Science and Technology Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4fne29$qkg@due.unit.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: kari.fm.unit.no X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] Hello! Trondheim, Feb. 8 1996 We are a class of third year students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, at the Department of Physics and Mathematics. The 18th of August until about the 25th of August this year we're going to visit New York City and Boston. This excursion is meant to show us how mathematics and physics are applied in the "real life". The purpose of this request is to get in touch with any firms, research centers etc. who want us to visit them, and who might think they have anything to show us. We are about 20 mathematics, 20 physics and 5 biophysics students. If you are interested, don't hesitate to mail me. Please do _NOT_ post a reply to this article, as I don't read this newsgroup regularly. Yours sincerely, Linda Mulehamn Elgesetergate 37 7030 Trondheim Norway E-mail: smule@fm.unit.no From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!infobiogen.fr!bioftp.unibas.ch!news.vub.ac.be!usenet From: Hans Schepers Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: WHO KNOWS THE RATE OF TRANSLATION??!! (AA/min) Date: 12 Feb 1996 09:05:24 GMT Organization: Universit'e Libre de Bruxelles Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4fmvsk$e4o@rc1.vub.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: cenoli19.ulb.ac.be. Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; IRIX 5.2 IP20) X-URL: news:bionet.biophysics Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Does anyone know a reference to a paper about rates of translation? I desperately need approximately some numbers: is 140 Amino Acids per minute a stupid figure? the protein I am interested in is the PER protein in Drosophila (for the circadian PERiod) thanx in advance, please take 1 second to provide me with an answer or ref, and browse my pages! Hans Schepers -- Hans Schepers, Service de Chimie Physique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles C.P. 231 Brussels 1050 e-mail: schepers@ulb.ac.be http://platine.ulb.ac.be From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!csn!ub!dsinc!newsfeed.pitt.edu!CTCnet!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.uiowa.edu!blue.weeg.uiowa.edu!nabaker From: nabaker@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (N. Baker) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Where can I get DelPhi? Date: 12 Feb 96 04:34:17 GMT Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <4f37r6$51n@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: red.weeg.uiowa.edu Tom Chou writes: >Hi all, >I'm wondering what codes exist for numerical solution >to nonlinear poisson boltzmann-type electrostatic problems >for macromolecules/organelles/other biological structures. >I heard of one called DelPhi. Does anyone know where I can get >this? Are there other related shareware codes out there? >Thanks, >Tom You can get DelPhi from Honig & Nicholls (at Columbia); check out his Web Page for details. Nicholls made a more qualitative program (but with many more handy features called Grasp. It deals with surface representation of several protein properties, but especially electrostatic potential. There's also a program by Andrew McCammon at UCSD called UHBD, but I don't know too much about it. -- ------------------------------------------ Nathan Baker * nabaker@blue weeg.uiowa.edu --- If ignorance is bliss, one would expect a lot more happiness in the world. --- From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!infomed.hin.gn.apc.org!uucp From: uucp@infomed.hin.gn.apc.org (0000-uucp(0000)) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: (none) Date: 12 Feb 1996 12:04:09 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 33 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9602121341.AA00991@infomed> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net From hin!gn!cdp!net.bio.net!BIOSCI-REQUEST Wed Feb 7 15:21:35 1996 remote from infomed Received: by infomed (5.65/1.35) id AA04354; Wed, 7 Feb 96 15:21:32 -0400 Received: from gn by hin with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0tkEGG-0009WRC; Wed, 7 Feb 96 13:06 CST Received: from net.bio.net (net.bio.net [204.31.212.2]) by cdp.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.214 ) with SMTP id JAA16314 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:21:25 -0800 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA15334; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:03:42 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA15326; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:03:39 -0800 To: biophys@net.bio.net From: "Zubrianov Igor L." Subject: Requirement for grant Date: 6 Feb 1996 14:14:27 +0300 Sender: infomed!news.demos.su!news-server Message-Id: Reply-To: infomed!amity.alma-ata.su!igor Nntp-Posting-Host: root@news.demos.su X-Mailer: dMail [Demos Mail for DOS v1.23] X-Return-Path: news.demos.su!kremvax.demos.su!ricc.alma-ata.su!amity!amity.alma-ata.su!igor Can you advice us how to take the grant support for following projects: 1. Influence of non-equlibrium states of a neer-membrane electrolyte layer close to cell surface on reversible erythrocytes aggregation and formation of non-Newtonian hydrodynamic properties of blood. 2. Deformability and aggregation of human erythrocytes in presence of ethanol. Thank's in advance Institute of Biotechnology Pharmacy, Republic of Kazakhstan Boris.S.Balmukhanov, Ph.D. igor@amity.alma-ata.su From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!infomed.hin.gn.apc.org!uucp From: uucp@infomed.hin.gn.apc.org (0000-uucp(0000)) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: (none) Date: 12 Feb 1996 12:02:50 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 33 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9602121408.AA00821@infomed> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net From hin!gn!cdp!net.bio.net!BIOSCI-REQUEST Wed Feb 7 15:21:35 1996 remote from infomed Received: by infomed (5.65/1.35) id AA04354; Wed, 7 Feb 96 15:21:32 -0400 Received: from gn by hin with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0tkEGG-0009WRC; Wed, 7 Feb 96 13:06 CST Received: from net.bio.net (net.bio.net [204.31.212.2]) by cdp.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.214 ) with SMTP id JAA16314 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:21:25 -0800 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA15334; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:03:42 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA15326; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:03:39 -0800 To: biophys@net.bio.net From: "Zubrianov Igor L." Subject: Requirement for grant Date: 6 Feb 1996 14:14:27 +0300 Sender: infomed!news.demos.su!news-server Message-Id: Reply-To: infomed!amity.alma-ata.su!igor Nntp-Posting-Host: root@news.demos.su X-Mailer: dMail [Demos Mail for DOS v1.23] X-Return-Path: news.demos.su!kremvax.demos.su!ricc.alma-ata.su!amity!amity.alma-ata.su!igor Can you advice us how to take the grant support for following projects: 1. Influence of non-equlibrium states of a neer-membrane electrolyte layer close to cell surface on reversible erythrocytes aggregation and formation of non-Newtonian hydrodynamic properties of blood. 2. Deformability and aggregation of human erythrocytes in presence of ethanol. Thank's in advance Institute of Biotechnology Pharmacy, Republic of Kazakhstan Boris.S.Balmukhanov, Ph.D. igor@amity.alma-ata.su From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!infomed.hin.gn.apc.org!uucp From: uucp@infomed.hin.gn.apc.org (0000-uucp(0000)) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: (none) Date: 12 Feb 1996 12:02:40 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 33 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9602121411.AA01132@infomed> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net From hin!gn!cdp!net.bio.net!BIOSCI-REQUEST Wed Feb 7 15:21:35 1996 remote from infomed Received: by infomed (5.65/1.35) id AA04354; Wed, 7 Feb 96 15:21:32 -0400 Received: from gn by hin with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0tkEGG-0009WRC; Wed, 7 Feb 96 13:06 CST Received: from net.bio.net (net.bio.net [204.31.212.2]) by cdp.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.214 ) with SMTP id JAA16314 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:21:25 -0800 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA15334; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:03:42 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA15326; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:03:39 -0800 To: biophys@net.bio.net From: "Zubrianov Igor L." Subject: Requirement for grant Date: 6 Feb 1996 14:14:27 +0300 Sender: infomed!news.demos.su!news-server Message-Id: Reply-To: infomed!amity.alma-ata.su!igor Nntp-Posting-Host: root@news.demos.su X-Mailer: dMail [Demos Mail for DOS v1.23] X-Return-Path: news.demos.su!kremvax.demos.su!ricc.alma-ata.su!amity!amity.alma-ata.su!igor Can you advice us how to take the grant support for following projects: 1. Influence of non-equlibrium states of a neer-membrane electrolyte layer close to cell surface on reversible erythrocytes aggregation and formation of non-Newtonian hydrodynamic properties of blood. 2. Deformability and aggregation of human erythrocytes in presence of ethanol. Thank's in advance Institute of Biotechnology Pharmacy, Republic of Kazakhstan Boris.S.Balmukhanov, Ph.D. igor@amity.alma-ata.su From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!infobiogen.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!news.tju.edu!usenet From: "John Roy, M.D., Ph.D." Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Pectrofluorometer SPEX F1T11I Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:53:18 -0500 Organization: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Lines: 7 Message-ID: <311FA8BE.7A73@jeflin.tju.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: roy1.tjh.tju.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Looking for someone interested in aquiring a spectrofluorometer. SPEX F1T11I purchased in 1992 with private funds. It has dual emission and dual excitation monochromators, two cooled detectors, T-format sample compartment, automated polarization assembly and all hardware/software required to run instrument. Was used only a few times and with recent director's death, no chance of using it again. Asking 25K OBO. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!infomed.hin.gn.apc.org!uucp From: uucp@infomed.hin.gn.apc.org (0000-uucp(0000)) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: (none) Date: 12 Feb 1996 12:04:47 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 32 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9602121412.AA01264@infomed> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net From hin!gn!cdp!net.bio.net!BIOSCI-REQUEST Tue Feb 6 19:25:55 1996 remote from infomed Received: by infomed (5.65/1.35) id AA04301; Tue, 6 Feb 96 19:25:53 -0400 Received: from gn by hin with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0tjxUm-0009WTC; Tue, 6 Feb 96 19:12 CST Received: from net.bio.net (net.bio.net [204.31.212.2]) by cdp.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.214 ) with SMTP id BAA13538 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:38:11 -0800 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA28530; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:13:26 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA28523; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:13:24 -0800 To: biophys@net.bio.net From: infomed!wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de!krasel (Cornelius Krasel) Subject: Re: Iron in ashes Date: 5 Feb 1996 09:28:19 GMT Message-Id: <4f4ijj$e56@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Nntp-Posting-Host: wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Paulo Freitas Tavares (pftavares@TELEPAC.PT) wrote: > I tried with a bit of pork meat with some bone. Ashes came out fine > and lite grey. BUT they don't dissolve completely in water... That's not very surprising. I would try to use something like conc. HCl. I have no idea on how to quantitate FeCl3 but I think it should be possible by titration. Check out books about complexometry; maybe iodometry may work as well. --Cornelius. -- /* Cornelius Krasel, U Wuerzburg, Dept. of Pharmacology, Versbacher Str. 9 */ /* D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany email: phak004@rzbox.uni-wuerzburg.de SP3 */ /* "Science is the game we play with God to find out what His rules are." */ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 12 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!cdc2.cdc.net!p31.vianet.on.ca!user From: ianv@vianet.on.ca (Ian Vaithilingam) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: careers in biophysics Date: 13 Feb 1996 05:32:01 GMT Organization: CDC Internet - 423/842-5709 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <4fdii1$p61@doc.jmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: p31.vianet.on.ca X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.5 In article <4fdii1$p61@doc.jmu.edu>, STU_EDELLIS@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (EDWARD D ELLIS) wrote: > I'm looking for some advice on the job opportunities in the field of > biophysics. I am currently a senior physics major with a mathematics minor. > I have an interest in both condensed matter physics and biophysics. I have > applied to Ph.D. programs in physics and biophysics and have been accepted to > both type of programs. >I think I have a pretty good feel for what the job market is like in > pure physics but I don't really have a clue about the biophysics side. I'm > looking for information and opinions from professionals in the field of > biophysics on what you feel the employment opportunities are like > My concern is that I don't want to spend six years in > graduate school and end up only being able to find postdoc after postdoc for > employment. Also, it seems by choosing the biophysics career path I lock > myself into a pretty tight niche, whereas a Ph.D. in pure physics would allow > one to transcend that engineering/physics boundary if needed.\ Dear Sir, If you happen to find out anything at all about the opportunities in biophysics, I would greatly appreciate it if you could email me some info also (ianv@vianet.on.ca). I am just entering university, but I love physics and will be persuing an undergrad degree in physics in biophysics. You seem to be wondering about the exact same questions as me! Thanks... Ian. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 12 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!noc.netcom.net!alpha1.chapman.edu!nexus!hrolson From: hrolson@nexus.chapman.edu (Howard R. Olson) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: quantum neurochemistry Date: 13 Feb 1996 00:01:09 GMT Organization: Chapman University Lines: 3 Message-ID: <4fokc5$a9f@alpha1.chapman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nexus.chapman.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Does anyone have any info on recent developments in the so-called "Microsite" hypothesis of Dr. John C. Eccles? From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 12 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!infobiogen.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!news.tju.edu!usenet From: "John Roy, M.D., Ph.D." Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: SPEX Spectroflurometer Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:10:47 -0500 Organization: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3120F047.6E3D@jeflin.tju.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: roy1.tjh.tju.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Looking for someone interested in aquiring a SPEX F1T11I spectroflurometer purchased in 1992 with private funds. It has dual emission and dual excitation monochronometers, two cooled detectors, a T-format sample compartment, automated polarization assembly, and all hardware/software required to operate the instrument. It was used only a few times, and with the previous director's death, there is little chance of it being used again. Asking 25K or best offer. Please address all inquiries to: Carlos Wilkerson, M.D., Ph.D. Director of Anesthesia Research Laboratory Jefferson Medical College Thomas Jefferson University Hospital 111 South 11th Street; Suite G-6460 Philadelphia, PA 19107-5092 Telephone: 215-955-2411 FAX: 215-923-5507 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 12 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.IT.net!news.ULIsse.it!news.unige.it!moana!diaspro From: diaspro@moana (Alberto Diaspro) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: new world microscopy Date: 13 Feb 1996 08:13:06 GMT Organization: Univ. of Genoa, Italy Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4fph6i$isj@alpha.cisi.unige.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.251.105.2 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dear Friemnds, the issue of IEEE Eng.Med.Biol. of Jan 96 has been devoted to Microscopy I'd appreciate commernts to diaspro@ge.infn.it Best regards Alby -- ------------------------------------- Alberto DIASPRO Department of Physics University of Genoa Via Dodecaneso 33 16146 Genova Italy voice: +39-10-3536309 facsimile: +39-10-314218 or 311666 e-mail: diaspro@genova.infn.it (home: Via Lomellini 4-6 16124 Genova) -------------------------------------- From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue Feb 13 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.biu.ac.il!news.huji.ac.il!wisipc.weizmann.ac.il!news Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.proteins,bionet.general,bionet.biophysics Subject: Molecular Traffic in Fast Acting Enzymes Message-ID: <3122277C.5D31@wicc.weizmann.ac.il> From: Simone Botti Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:18:36 GMT Reply-To: csbotti@wicc.weizmann.ac.il Sender: news@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il (News User) Organization: Weizmann Institute - Dept. of Struct. Biology Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Lines: 31 Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.proteins:7077 bionet.general:19904 bionet.biophysics:1720 Greetings, I was wondering if any body could help me find general references or reviews dealing with substrate steering and product clearance to and from the active site of enzymes that approach the so-called limit of diffusion. ( e.g. Superoxide dismutase Carbonic anhydrase and Acetylcholinesterase ) The focus would be more on the actual force fields and mechanics involved in steering the product towards the active site and then clearing the site for the next catalytic event. An interesting spin-off would be if the reviews dealt with the thermodynamic treatment of "crowded biological systems" Thank you very much in advance. -- Simone Botti ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No Fixed Physical Location ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simone is delocalized over these physical locations: Weizmann Institute of Science Dept.of Structural Biology Dept.of Neurobiology Kimmelman Building, room 663 Meyer Building, room 411 76100 Rehovot, Israel vox. +972 8 9343759 vox. +972 8 9342128 fax : +972 8 9344159 E-Mail :csbotti@wicc.weizmann.ac.il WWW: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/~csbotti/simo.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Feb 14 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: Erik De Schutter Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience Date: 15 Feb 1996 12:40:50 -0000 Lines: 85 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <4fv9ki$83p@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> Original-To: biophys@dl.ac.uk SECOND CALL CRETE COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE AUGUST 25 - SEPTEMBER 20, 1996 CRETE, GREECE DIRECTORS: Erik De Schutter (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Idan Segev (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) Jim Bower (California Institute of Technology, USA) Adonis Moschovakis (University of Crete, Greece) The Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience introduces students to the practical application of computational methods in neuroscience, in particular how to create biologically realistic models of neurons and networks. The course consists of two complimentary parts. A distinguished international faculty gives morning lectures on topics in experimental and computational neuroscience. The rest of the day is spent learning how to use simulation software and how to implement a model of the system the student wishes to study. The first week of the course introduces students to the most important techniques in modeling single cells, networks and neural systems. Students learn how to use the GENESIS, NEURON, XPP and other software packages on their individual unix workstations. During the following three weeks the lectures will be more general, moving from modeling single cells and subcellular processes through the simulation of simple circuits and large neuronal networks and, finally, to system level models of the cortex and the brain. The course ends with a presentation of the student modeling projects. The Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience is designed for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in a variety of disciplines, including neurobiology, physics, electrical engineering, computer science and psychology. Students are expected to have a basic background in neurobiology as well as some computer experience. A total of 25 students will be accepted, the majority of whom will be from the European Union and affiliated countries. A tuition fee of 500 ECU ($700) covers lodging, travel from EC countries to Crete and all course-related expenses for European nationals. We specifically encourage applications from researchers younger than 35, from researchers who work in less-favoured regions, from women and from researchers from industry. We encourage students from the Far East and the USA to also apply to this inter- national course. More information and application forms can be obtained: - WWW access: http://bbf-www.uia.ac.be/CRETE/Crete_index.html - by mail: Prof. E. De Schutter Born-Bunge Foundation University of Antwerp - UIA, Universiteitsplein 1 B2610 Antwerp Belgium FAX: +32-3-8202541 - email: crete_course@bbf.uia.ac.be APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 10th, 1996. Applicants will be notified of the results of the selection procedures before May 1st. FACULTY: M. Abeles (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel), D.J. Amit (University of Rome, Italy and Hebrew University, Israel), A. Berthoz (College de France, France), R.E. Burke (NIH, USA), C.E. Carr (University of Maryland, USA), A. Destexhe (Universite Laval, Canada), R.J. Douglas (Institute of Neuroinformatics, Zurich, Switzerland), T. Flash (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel), A. Grinvald (Weizmann Institute, Israel), J.J.B. Jack (Oxford University, England), C. Koch (California Institute of Technology, USA), H. Korn (Institut Pasteur, France), A. Lansner (Royal Institute Technology, Sweden), R. Llinas (New York University, USA), E. Marder (Brandeis University, USA), M. Nicolelis (Duke University, USA), J.M. Rinzel (NIH, USA), W. Singer (Max-Planck Institute, Frankfurt, Germany), S. Tanaka (RIKEN, Japan), A.M. Thomson (Royal Free Hospital, England), S. Ullman (Weizmann Institute, Israel), Y. Yarom (Hebrew University, Israel). The Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience is supported by the European Commission (4th Framework Training and Mobility of Researchers program) and by The Brain Science Foundation (Tokyo). Local administrative organization: the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics of FORTH (Crete, GR). From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Feb 14 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU!RHODES From: RHODES@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Have you used Spex fluorometers??? Date: 15 Feb 1996 08:45:15 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 19 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <960215.114213.EST.RHODES@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I am looking for a good fluorescence spec, and while I would like to have an instrument sensitive enough to do "good stuff", I would also like to be able to have students (e.g. undergrad summer students) use the instrument without excessively long learning curves. (i.e. it would be nice to begin doing real measurements before July!) I have heard mixed reviews of the Spex "human interface" relative to those of other vendors. SO........ Who has Spex machines? What do you like about them? What do you hate about them? Is it worth it anyhow? Thanks for your input!!! | O==O | | DAVID G. RHODES O==O PHONE 860-486-5413 | | SCHOOL OF PHARMACY; U-92 O==O FAX 860-486-1553 | | UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT O==O | | STORRS, CT 06269-2092 O==O RHODES@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU | | O==O | From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Feb 14 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!aaRS!lluis From: lluis@aaRS (Lluis Ribas) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: WHO KNOWS THE RATE OF TRANSLATION??!! (AA/min) Date: 15 Feb 1996 16:50:36 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4fvo8s$ajt@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <4fmvsk$e4o@rc1.vub.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: aars.mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Hans Schepers (schepers@ulb.ac.be) wrote: : X-URL: news:bionet.biophysics : Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit : Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii : Does anyone know a reference to a paper about : rates of translation? : I desperately need approximately some numbers: The second article in the latest FASEB Journal is full of interesting trivia like this. According to the author (Lorimer, I think), each ribosome in E. coli spits a protein every 35 seconds in average. All you need to know now is the average length of an E. coli protein and you have your answer. Unfortunately Lorimer does not provide that number But since I am really brave, I'll make a guess :-). I guess that the average protein in E. coli is about 245 amino acids. Hence, I guess, the translation rate in E. coli is about 7 residues/second (note the convinient 245/35 ratio :-) ). Lluis -- Lluis Ribas de Pouplana, Dept. of Biology, MIT e-mail: lluis@aars.mit.edu www: http://minihelix.mit.edu/lluis ************************************************************* * Pixo a l'abisme, * Latin is the essence, * * al fons la mar blava, * French the idea, * * alli el cap de Bagur, * Spanish the fire, * * aqui el cap de la fava. * Italian the air, * * * Catalan the earth, * * * and Portuguese the water. * * * * * Josep Maria de Sagarra * Cees Nooteboom * ************************************************************* From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Feb 14 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.uiowa.edu!blue.weeg.uiowa.edu!nabaker From: nabaker@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (N. Baker) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Adopted basis netwon-raphson dynamics? Date: 15 Feb 96 19:41:20 GMT Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: black.weeg.uiowa.edu Summary: Adopted basis newton-raphson dynamics? Keywords: protein dyanmics Hi -- I was wondering if anyone had information or could point towards some references on adopted basis netwon-raphson dyanmics, such as used in Charmm. Thanks! ------------------------------------------ Nathan Baker * nabaker@blue weeg.uiowa.edu --- If ignorance is bliss, one would expect a lot more happiness in the world. --- -- ------------------------------------------ Nathan Baker * nabaker@blue weeg.uiowa.edu --- If ignorance is bliss, one would expect a lot more happiness in the world. --- From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Feb 15 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!infobiogen.fr!jussieu.fr!citi2.fr!news From: tamisier@bisance.citi2.fr (Luc Tamisier) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Red Blood Cell Membrane Date: 16 Feb 1996 09:31:34 GMT Organization: GRPB Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4g1itm$39o@bisance.citi2.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: u40013.citi2.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 We need informations about red blood cell membrane specific heat and thermal conductivity. Where can I find these informations? Thank you, -- Luc Tamisier GRPB-Universite Rene Descartes 45, rue des St Peres, 75270 Paris cedex06, France Tel: 42 86 21 30 Fax: 42 86 20 85 http://u40024.citi2.fr/grpb/ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Feb 17 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dra.com!news.getnet.com!usenet From: ppm Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Measure Radiation with watch Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 12:19:56 -0800 Organization: GetNet, International, Inc. Lines: 8 Message-ID: <312789EC.6984@getnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phx-ip2-98.getnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win16; I) Introduction of the first wristwatch that measures, detects, and counts radioactivity and x-rays. See for details: http://gn2.getnet.com/~ppm/ Professional feed-back appreciated. Thank you, Hans Kuerner From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 18 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!neubio.sld.ar!Postmaster From: Postmaster@neubio.sld.ar (Administrador del Nodo) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Across-membrane: electromagnetic effect without receptors Date: 18 Feb 1996 19:52:07 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 84 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <508bs809@neubio.sld.ar> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear netters, I need to make a fundamented guess on the order of magnitude of the mass and speed of the charge carriers (free ions) to be moved on a unit of volume of a cell's cytoplasm, in order to attain a MINIMUM electro- magnetic effect on the concentration-dispersion of charge carriers free in the cytoplasm at the opposite side of one standard biomembrane deprived of all channels and electri- cally neutral. (This "reductio to a wall" is why I posits one membrane instead than rather two). I think the quantitation I need is not u- sual and am at a loss to find it done or explained in the literature. Of course the end purpose is an experimental comparation. But the guess of this order of magnitude is most important in this stage. I decided to fancy that the membrane is closed (no charge carrier traverses it), so as to concentrate in trying to outcalculate per volume of the first cell (say: per every cube of 100 or 1000 nano- meters a side, immediate to the membrane), how much of the energy devoted to translocate free charge carriers in one same direction (against their random thermal motion) with a given speed, could be "ephaptically" sensed by the simi- lar charge carriers at a like volume in the membrane's o- ther side, through both electric and magnetic field cou- plings. The speed of translocation cannot be posited as a fraction of the average thermal speed of the free charges in the liquid; and one of the points most difficult to me is estimating, for a given energy injected in the first vo- lume by the E field, what average supplementary speed will the charge carriers (say, Na+, K+ and Ca2+ in usual concen- trations) attain above their previous thermal motion. I mean, of course, absolute mean speed in meters per second or so. I additionally fancy (contradicting the conservation of energy of course) that the original field, moving the charge carriers in the first cube, has no effect inside the second cube across the membrane. So in the second cube only the effects of the charge carriers moved in the first cube are sensible ... except if there exists a macros- copic minimum (see below). I expect to end with a given force put by the external field in the first volume, invested in moving its enclosed charge carriers with a given average acceleration, that via electric and magnetic couplings results across the closed membrane into another motion of charge carriers with their corresponding acceleration, so as to compare both and finally guessing what fraction of the fields energy coupled in the first volume passes by field coupling alone to the second. But my worst difficulty is trying to guessing the minimum, since I am not much fami- liar with quantum theory and the central point is, knowing if there exists a macroscopic limit in which no effect shall be detected at all across the membrane (say, a too sluggish translocation speed in the first volume), thus setting a threshold for each volume sensing the other. If such macro minimum exists, what I need is guessing how many meters per second of MINIMUM ADDED SPEED I ought to put to disperse the cytoplasm charge carriers at one side in order to be able of sensing it by con- centration of cytoplasmic charge carriers at the other side. I really thank in advance for any help you could furnish. Cheers, Mariela =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Prof. Mariela Szirko, Lab. of Electroneurobiological Res., Neuropsychiatric Hospital "Dr. Jose Tiburcio Borda", Municipality of Buenos Aires, Office: Phone/Fax (54 1) 306 -7314 e-mail Standard disclaimer: Las opiniones de este mensaje son personales y no comprometen las dependencias a cargo de la firmante Reply to THIS message, ONLY to: =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 18 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!yama.mcc.ac.uk!news.salford.ac.uk!aber!bath.ac.uk!dcl-cs!strath-cs!news.staffs.ac.uk!news From: Guest User Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience Date: 19 Feb 1996 13:43:59 GMT Organization: Walsall College of Arts & Technology (Student) Lines: 2 Message-ID: <4g9uqv$s6@bs33n.staffs.ac.uk> References: <4fv9ki$83p@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc1628.walcat.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) To: bionet.biophysics hi I havent a clue as to what I am doing. can anyone help From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 18 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!yama.mcc.ac.uk!news.salford.ac.uk!aber!bath.ac.uk!dcl-cs!strath-cs!news.staffs.ac.uk!news From: Guest User Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience Date: 19 Feb 1996 13:43:31 GMT Organization: Walsall College of Arts & Technology (Student) Lines: 2 Message-ID: <4g9uq3$s6@bs33n.staffs.ac.uk> References: <4fv9ki$83p@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc1628.walcat.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) To: burt hi I havent a clue as to what I am doing. can anyone help From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 18 22:00:00 1996 Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!CERN.ch!horvath From: horvath@hpl3.cern.ch (John Horvath) Subject: Re: careers in biophysics X-Nntp-Posting-Host: hpl3pur1.cern.ch Message-ID: Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics References: <4fdii1$p61@doc.jmu.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:27:53 GMT Lines: 38 Keywords: In article , ianv@vianet.on.ca (Ian Vaithilingam) writes: |> In article <4fdii1$p61@doc.jmu.edu>, STU_EDELLIS@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (EDWARD |> D ELLIS) wrote: |> > My concern is that I don't want to spend six years in |> > graduate school and end up only being able to find postdoc after postdoc for |> > employment. Also, it seems by choosing the biophysics career path I lock |> > myself into a pretty tight niche, whereas a Ph.D. in pure physics would allow |> > one to transcend that engineering/physics boundary if needed.\ Don't kid yourself. Transcending the engineering/physics boundary is a non-trivial endeavor with a PhD. If you want to be sure of a job, go to engineering graduate school. Learn all you can about computer networking, optical computing, or materials science. And for god's sake get out with an M.S. NOT a PhD. For some incomprehensible reason people in industry think you have a broader background with an M.S. than a "narrowly focused" PhD. I guess noone's ever told them most PhD granting physics departments don't have an M.S. program and award that degree to those students who don't pass the qualifying exam to advance to PhD candidacy. I've tried for 2+ years to break into industry with no luck. If you want to know what skills a particle physicist has to industry you should ask yourself where NMR, PET, and CAT technology has come from. Detecting, tracking and reconstructing the source of radiation is the same in particle physics as in medical physics, most advances in medical imaging have come from particle physics research. God only knows why the medical imaging field prefers to hire electrical engineers to particle physicists but they do. Don't you know I'm incapable of doing anything but searching for the Higgs boson, whatever the heck that might be! Anyway, good luck. Biophysics might be a better option, and can lead to faculty jobs in biomedical engineering for instance. And if you go solid state, go experimental and get into something like thin film optics. You could probably find a job in that field. John From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Feb 18 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.tamu.edu!news.utdallas.edu!amaxwell From: amaxwell@utdallas.edu (Aaron L Maxwell) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience Date: 19 Feb 1996 23:17:15 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Dallas Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4gb0dr$gb0@news.utdallas.edu> References: <4fv9ki$83p@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> <4g9uqv$s6@bs33n.staffs.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: csclass.utdallas.edu NNTP-Posting-User: amaxwell X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Guest User (Guest@walcat.ac.uk) wrote: : hi I havent a clue as to what I am doing. can anyone help Looks like someone forgot to logout when they left their terminal... -- Aaron L. Maxwell "I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra copying machine." From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 19 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: th@mrc-cpe.cam.ac.uk (Tim Hubbard) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Announcement: Details of second prediction experiment, CASP2 Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:57:18 -0000 Lines: 35 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <4gd5ie$lol@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> X-Sender: th@ind1.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Original-To: bionews@dl.ac.uk, biophys@dl.ac.uk, bio-soft@dl.ac.uk, comp-bio@dl.ac.uk, methods@dl.ac.uk, molmodel@dl.ac.uk, proteins@dl.ac.uk, pdb-l@pdb.pdb.bnl.gov Announcement: Details of second prediction experiment, CASP2 ============================================================ This is an announcement for those working on methods for protein structure prediction. Details of the 2nd protein structure prediction experiment (CASP2) are now available from the following locations. http://iris4.carb.nist.gov/casp2/ http://www.mrc-cpe.cam.ac.uk/casp2/ Targets for prediction are now being collected and will shortly be available for prediction. In order to receive information about the experiment, targets and receive a registration code that will be required to submit predictions, please use the on-line registration form. Registration forms are also available on request from casp2@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk for those without WWW access. For CASP2, predictions will only be accepted in predefined machine readable formats. Some aspects of the assessment will also be carried out automatically. Draft proposals for the assessment criteria and some examples of draft submission formats are available for comment. Comments must be received by 1st March, after which criteria will be finalised. Tim Hubbard Co-chair Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge, UK. Steve Bryant Co-chair NCBI, National Library of Medicine, USA. John Moult President CARB, University of Maryland, USA. Jan T. Pedersen CARB, University of Maryland, USA Krzysztof Fidelis Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. Richard Judson Sandia National Laboratory, USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 19 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!TOCSY.UTMB.EDU!werner From: werner@TOCSY.UTMB.EDU ("Werner Braun") Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Final Announcement Structural Biology Symposium Date: 20 Feb 1996 13:56:12 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 250 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9602201555.ZM26103@tocsy.utmb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Final announcement for the Symposium on Structural Biology. Please visit the WEB page of the Sealy Center for Structural Biology http://www.scsb.utmb.edu:90/ for further details. Final Announcement STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON Sealy Center for Structural Biology and the Department of Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics MARCH 1-3, 1996 Dear Colleagues: Final details for the Structural Biology Symposium at UTMB are enclosed. If you have not already registered, we would like to invite you and your colleagues to join us in our inaugural celebration of the UTMB Structural Biology Program and the Sealy Center for Structural Biology by participating in our Structural Biology Symposium scheduled for March 1-3, 1996. This meeting will bring together scientists who are interested in applying insights from structural biology and solution thermodynamics to solve biological and biomedical problems. The speakers at the symposium are distinguished researchers from a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. If you are planning to attend the Symposium, please inform us of your coming as well as who may be accompanying you by no later than February 26th. Furthermore, if you intend to participate in the poster session, all abstracts must be received no later than February 26th as well. Although there is no registration fee, $50 will be assessed for those who wish to optionally participate in the Friday reception, Saturday lunch and dinner banquet, and Sunday brunch. Please make all payments made out to UTMB-SCSB. In addition, checks will be the only form of payment accepted. Please complete and return the conference registration form together with your payment, to: Jacqueline Luxon; Administrative Secretary ADDRESS: Sealy Center for Structural Biology Dept. for Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX. 77555-1157 PHONE: (409)747-6800 FAX: (409)747-6850 EMAIL: jacky@nmr.utmb.edu Thank you, and we look forward to your participation in the Symposium. UTMB Symposium Organizing Committee: D. Wayne Bolen Werner Braun Wlodzimierz M. Bujalowski Edmund W. Czerwinski Robert Fox David G. Gorenstein James C. Lee Bruce A. Luxon Jan F. Post Stanley Watowich ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium Information and Registration Information and the registration and hotel forms may also be found on the Sealy Center for Structural Biology server- URL http://www.scsb.utmb.edu:90/ You may also e-mail or print the registration and hotel forms below and send them to Jacqueline Luxon at the above address. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, HOTEL AND REGISTRATION FORMS DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: FEBRUARY 26, 1996 --------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL SCHEDULE _______________________________________________________________________________ FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1996 _______________________________________________________________________________ 3:00 P.M. - 4.00 P.M. Registration Levin Hall 4:00 P.M. Opening Remarks Levin Hall President Thomas James - UTMB 4:15 P.M. Plenary Lecture Levin Hall Frederic Richards - Yale "The Structure of Proteins - Change in Dogma with Time" 6:00 P.M. - 7:30 P.M. Reception Levin Hall ________________________________________________________________________________ SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1996 ________________________________________________________________________________ 9:00 A.M. - 9:50 A.M. Angela Gronenborn - NIH Levin Hall "Structure of Protein-DNA COmplexes: Intercalation, DNA Bending and Transcriptional Control" 9:50 A.M. - 10:40 A.M. Don Wiley - Harvard Levin Hall "Structural Biology of Cellular Immunity" 10:40 A.M. - 11:10 A.M. Break & Posters Levin Hall 11:10 A.M. - 12:00 noon Robert L. Baldwin - Stanford Levin Hall "The Molten Globule Intermediate of an Apomyoglobin" 12:00 noon - 12:30 P.M. Werner Braun - UTMB Levin Hall "Self-Correcting Distance Geometry: A New Method for Protein Modeling and NMR Determination" 12:30 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. Lunch and visit to the NMR Center Dockside Blg. 2:00 P.M. - 2:50 P.M. Florante Quiocho - Baylor Levin Hall "Molecular Recognition by Proteins: From the Stringent to the very Loose" 2:50 P.M. - 3:40 P.M. Thomas James - University of Levin Hall California - San Francisco "Nucleic Acid Structure and Dynamics" 3:40 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. Break 4:00 P.M. - 4:50 P.M. Gary Ackers - Washington U. Levin Hall "The Intermediates of Hemoglobin Cooperativity Provide Striking New Insights into Allostery" 4:50 P.M. - 5:20 P.M. Robert Fox - UTMB Levin Hall "SH3 Domain Peptide Recognition" 5:20 P.M. - 6:30 P.M. Poster and Reception Levin Hall 7:30 P.M. Banquet Hotel Galvez ________________________________________________________________________________ SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1996 ________________________________________________________________________________ 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 noon Discussion - Brunch Levin Hall "Future Directions of Structural Biology" ALL SPEAKERS WILL SERVE AS PANEL MEMBERS 12:00 noon - 1:00 P.M. Break NMR Techniques Workshop Levin Hall (In Cooperation with Varian Instruments) 1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. George Gray - Varian Instruments Levin Hall "Recent Advances in NMR Technology for Biomolecular NMR" 2:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. Shanmin Zhang - UTMB Levin Hall "Suppression of Radiation Damping During Acquisition" 2:30 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. Additional short contributions Levin Hall 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Applications on Varian/Oxford 600 Dockside Blg. and 750 Unity Plus and Varian/HARC 400 MHz Unity PLus systems with George Gray and NMR Center staff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CLIMATE The weather in Galveston, a resort island off the Texas coast near Houston, in March is warm with average temperatures ranging from a low of 55 degrees to a high of 75 degrees. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION Hotel space has been reserved at the Hotel Galvez. FOR RESERVATIONS CALL: 1-800-392-4285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTER INFORMATION Posters should be no larger than 4'x6'. Abstracts of 1 page listing title, authors and affiliation should be provided prior to the meeting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COSTS: There is no registration fee. However, payment of $50.00 total for optional receptions, lunches and dinners should be made to UTMB-SCSB by February 26th. Please, payment by checks only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON MARCH 1-3, 1996 REGISTRATION FORM NAME:______________________________________________________________________ WORK ADDRESS:______________________________________________________________ INSTITUTION NAME:____________________________________________________________ INSTITUTION NAME:____________________________________________________________ CITY:__________________________________STATE:_____________ZIP CODE:__________ OFFICE PHONE:____________________FAX NUMBER:_________________________________ EMAIL ADDRESS:______________________________________________________________ CHECK THOSE WHICH APPLY: ______Enclosed is my check for $50.00. ______I will be participating in the Symposium on: FRIDAY_________ SATURDAY_______ SUNDAY_________ ______I will be participating in the poster session and have included a copy of my abstract. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ================================================================= Werner Braun Professor Sealy Center for Structural Biology Dockside Bldg. Room 2.114 University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX 77555-1157 Tel.: (409) 747-6810 Fax: (409) 747-6850 E-mail:werner@nmr.utmb.edu WWW: http://www.nmr.utmb.edu/werner/wb_home.html =============================================================== From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Feb 19 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!news From: Tim Hubbard Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Announcement: Details of second prediction experiment, CASP2 Date: 20 Feb 1996 20:14:44 GMT Organization: Centre for Protein Engineering Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4gda3k$9f4@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ccpeshiva1-mac2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:bionet.biophysics Announcement: Details of second prediction experiment, CASP2 ============================================================ This is an announcement for those working on methods for protein structure prediction. Details of the 2nd protein structure prediction experiment (CASP2) are now available from the following locations. http://iris4.carb.nist.gov/casp2/ http://www.mrc-cpe.cam.ac.uk/casp2/ Targets for prediction are now being collected and will shortly be available for prediction. In order to receive information about the experiment, targets and receive a registration code that will be required to submit predictions, please use the on-line registration form. Registration forms are also available on request from casp2@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk for those without WWW access. For CASP2, predictions will only be accepted in predefined machine readable formats. Some aspects of the assessment will also be carried out automatically. Draft proposals for the assessment criteria and some examples of draft submission formats are available for comment. Comments must be received by 1st March, after which criteria will be finalised. Tim Hubbard Co-chair Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge, UK. Steve Bryant Co-chair NCBI, National Library of Medicine, USA. John Moult President CARB, University of Maryland, USA. Jan T. Pedersen CARB, University of Maryland, USA Krzysztof Fidelis Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. Richard Judson Sandia National Laboratory, USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Feb 21 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.tamu.edu!news.utdallas.edu!news.swmed.edu!news From: Zbyszek Otwinowski Newsgroups: bionet.xtallography,bionet.biophysics,sci.med.physics,alt.med.equipment,sci.med.radiology Subject: Re: Searching for Fuji BAS 2000 scanner Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:40:55 -0600 Organization: UT Southwestern Medical Center Lines: 38 Message-ID: <312CD4D7.41C6@mix.swmed.edu> References: <4gift9$a0f@moonbeam.aecom.yu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: chop.swmed.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; OSF1 V3.2 alpha) To: Yoram Puius Xref: biosci bionet.xtallography:2416 bionet.biophysics:1738 sci.med.physics:4056 sci.med.radiology:5091 Yoram Puius wrote: > > We are interested in acquiring a Fuji BAS 2000 image plate scanner for use > in protein crystallography. We would like to purchase a used one for a > reasonable price, and of course, a donated scanner would be welcome. > > Additional relevant computer hardware and software would be desirable, but > not necessary. > >... > > Please direct all replies to: > > Dr. Steven Almo > Department of Biochemistry > Albert Einstein College of Medicine I would strongly discourage use of Fuji scanner for protein crystallography, at the synchrotron or in the lab. It is extremly laborious to use. Practise of synchrotrons is that one needs a team of 4-8 people to use it. If one has so many people in the lab, automatic scanner can be easily justified. Also data reduction is much harder due to mistakes being made during data collection. If you cannot afford an automatic scanner, it will be much easier to go to another lab to collect data. Inconvinience of going to another lab is smaller than using Fuji scanner in your own lab. However, Fuji scanner is quite good for scanning gels. Did anybody succeed in using Fuji scanner in the lab for protein crystallography? -- Zbyszek Otwinowski | zbyszek@chop.swmed.edu University of Texas | tel : (214)-648-5098 Southwestern Medical Center | fax : (214)-648-5095 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard Dallas, Texas 75235-9038 [EOB] From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Feb 21 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!moonbeam.aecom.yu.edu!usenet From: Yoram Puius Newsgroups: bionet.xtallography,bionet.biophysics,sci.med.physics,alt.med.equipment,sci.med.radiology Subject: Searching for Fuji BAS 2000 scanner Date: 22 Feb 1996 19:24:25 GMT Organization: Dept. of Biochem., Albert Einstein Coll. of Med. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4gift9$a0f@moonbeam.aecom.yu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: zonker.bioc.aecom.yu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP17) To: almo@zugbug,puius X-URL: news:bionet.xtallography#4gf7ms$s34@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu Xref: biosci bionet.xtallography:2415 bionet.biophysics:1737 sci.med.physics:4055 sci.med.radiology:5090 We are interested in acquiring a Fuji BAS 2000 image plate scanner for use in protein crystallography. We would like to purchase a used one for a reasonable price, and of course, a donated scanner would be welcome. Additional relevant computer hardware and software would be desirable, but not necessary. Please direct all replies to: Dr. Steven Almo almo@zugbug.bioc.aecom.yu.edu or by U.S. Mail: Dr. Steven Almo Department of Biochemistry Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1300 Morris Park Avenu Bronx, NY 10461 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Feb 22 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!PEGASUS.CC.UCF.EDU!rwallace From: rwallace@PEGASUS.CC.UCF.EDU (Ronald L Wallace) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Biophysics of neural membrane. Date: 23 Feb 1996 10:52:13 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 23 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hello to everyone. I am a biological anthropologist with a strong theoretical interest in the biophysics of neural membranes. My publications along these lines have appeared in national and international journals, and I am presently involved in a trans-Atlantic collaboration with Annette Alfsen of the Molecular Biology Unit at Rene Descartes University on a neural membrane model. I would very much like to extend my range of contacts within the biophysics community. My objective is both an exchange of ideas and (possibly) research collaboration. If you are involved in any aspect of the biophysics of neural membranes or think that you might become interested in this topic I would like to hear from you. I am particularly interested in possible charge-transfer complexes in membrane lipids, the neural membrane construed as a possible liquid crystal, and biophysical models of transmitter endo- and exocytosis. Due to my training as an anthropologist, I am