Monday, November 20, 2017

Elemental Haiku, by Mary Soon Lee

Haiku embedded within the Periodic Table, Aug 4. 2017.  Brilliant!  How did we miss this earlier?  Find more, and write your own on Twitter, #ChemHaiku

http://vis.sciencemag.org/chemhaiku/
If you need inspiration, check out The elements : a visual exploration of every known atom in the universe / Theodore Gray ; photographs by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann or
The secret life of the periodic table : unlocking the mysteries of all 118 elements / Dr. Ben Still.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Recent publications: Craig, Moore, Peters, Roles, Schmidt

Acryloyl fluoride, Chihuahuan desert gypsophiles, crayfish genome skimming, catchment sediments, autophagy pathway: key topics of recent publications. Oberlin faculty and student authors are identified in the first line of each paragraph below.

Krasnoshchekov, et al.
Norman C. Craig, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry. 

Krasnoshchekov, S. V., Craig, N. C., Koroleva, L. A., & Stepanov, N. F. (2018). Anharmonic vibrational analysis of s-trans and s-cis conformers of acryloyl fluoride using numerical-analytic van vleck operator perturbation theory. Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 189, 66-79. 
Michael J. Moore, Associate Professor of Biology; Zoe Feder ’17; Helene Tiley, Junior. 

Muller, C. T., Moore, M. J., Feder, Z. Tiley, H. & Drenovsky, R. E. (2017). Phylogenetic patterns of foliar mineral nutrient accumulation among gypsophiles and their relatives in the Chihuahuan desert. American Journal of Botany, 104(10), 1442-1450. 
Maureen Peters, Associate Professor of Biology.

Hsieh, P. N., Zhou, G., Yuan, Y., Zhang, R., Prosdocimo, D. A., Sangwung, P., . . . Jain, M. K. (2017). A conserved KLF-autophagy pathway modulates nematode lifespan and mammalian age-associated vascular dysfunction. Nature Communications, 8, 914. 
Angela J. Roles, Assistant Professor of Biology.  

Grandjean, F., Tan, M. H., Gan, H. M., Lee, Y. P., Kawai, T., Distefano, R. J., . . . Austin, C. M. (2017). Rapid recovery of nuclear and mitochondrial genes by genome skimming from northern hemisphere freshwater crayfish. Zoologica Scripta, 46(6), 718-728. 
Amanda H. Schmidt, Assistant Professor of Geology.

Neilson, Schmidt, Bierman, et al.
Neilson, T. B., Schmidt, A. H., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D. H., & Gonzalez, V. S. (2017). Efficacy of in situ and meteoric be-10 mixing in fluvial sediment collected from small catchments in China. Chemical Geology, 471, 119-130.