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On the second Wednesday of each month, FYI…UCSF in the News includes an additional "Research Roundup" section that lists research papers authored by UCSF faculty and published in the journals Cell, Health Services Research, JAMA, Lancet, Nature, NEJM, Nursing Research, and Science.

UCSF PRINT AND ONLINE COVERAGE

  • Pill-Popping Pets (New York Times Magazine, The)
    The New York Times reports: "Americans are spending millions on mood-altering drugs for their cats and dogs. Is it because we’ve driven them mad?" --- Steven Hamilton, a psychiatric geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, is quoted.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • Genes that control embryonic stem cell fate identified (UCSF News Office)
    Barbara Panning, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF, and colleagues report in the July 11, 2008 issue of the journal Cell that they have identified about two dozen genes that control embryonic stem cell fate.
  • ABOG Offers Brown Bag Sessions on Mentorship Program (UCSF Today)
    The Academic Business Officers Group (ABOG) is hosting three upcoming sessions to provide staff seeking guidance in their careers with information about the mentorship program.
  • UCSF Introduces Leadership Development Initiative (UCSF Today)
    To ensure effective campus leadership now and in the future, UCSF is rolling out the Universitywide Leadership Development Initiative with two new programs this fall: the Leadership Academy and the Leadership Institute.

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

  • Rapid strengthening of thalamo-amygdala synapses mediates cue -- reward learning (Nature)
    Kay M. Tye1,2, Garret D. Stuber1, Bram de Ridder1, Antonello Bonci1,2,3,4 & Patricia H. Janak1,2,3,4 --- 1. Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, Emeryville, California 94608, USA; 2. Program in Neuroscience; 3. Department of Neurology, and, 4. Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA --- Correspondence to: Patricia H. Janak1,2,3,4 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to P.J. (Email: pjanak@gallo.ucsf.edu).
  • Cancer: Whispering sweet somethings (Nature)
    Thea Tlsty1 --- 1. Thea Tlsty is in the Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94143-0511, USA. Email: thea.tlsty@ucsf.edu
  • The branching programme of mouse lung development. (Nature)
    Ross J. Metzger1,3, Ophir D. Klein2,3, Gail R. Martin2 & Mark A. Krasnow1 --- 1.Department of Biochemistry and HHMI, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5307, USA; 2. Department of Anatomy and Program in Developmental Biology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158-2324, USA; 3. Present addresses: Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, California 94158-2517, USA (R.J.M.); Departments of Orofacial Sciences and Pediatrics, and Institute of Human Genetics, Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0442, USA (O.D.K.). --- Correspondence to: Ross J. Metzger1,3Mark A. Krasnow1 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to R.J.M. (Email: ross.metzger@ucsf.edu) or M.A.K. (Email: krasnow@cmgm.stanford.edu).
  • Positive feedback sharpens the anaphase switch (Nature)
    Liam J. Holt1, Andrew N. Krutchinsky2 & David O. Morgan1 --- 1. Departments of Physiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158, USA; 2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158, USA --- Correspondence to: David O. Morgan1 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to D.O.M. (Email: david.morgan@ucsf.edu).
  • Stem cell: Tips for priming potency (Nature)
    Joseph F. Costello1 --- Joseph F. Costello is in the Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biomedical Sciences Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0875, USA. Email: jcostello@cc.ucsf.edu
  • Subdiffraction Multicolor Imaging of the Nuclear Periphery (Science Magazine)
    Lothar Schermelleh,1* Peter M. Carlton,2* Sebastian Haase,2,4 Lin Shao,2 Lukman Winoto,2 Peter Kner,2 Brian Burke,3 M. Cristina Cardoso,4 David A. Agard,2 Mats G. L. Gustafsson,5 Heinrich Leonhardt,1* John W. Sedat2*+ --- 1 Center for Integrated Protein Science, Department of Biology, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany. 2 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. 3 Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. 4 Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany. 5 Department of Physiology and Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. --- * These authors contributed equally to this work. --- +To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: h.leonhardt@lmu.de (H.L.); sedat@msg.ucsf.edu (J.W.S.)

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