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The results of my doctoral dissertation have been published in Nucleic Acids Research, at long last!
You’ve probably been wondering for months about the images in the right column of this blog. My doctoral dissertation described the effects of torsional stress on the structure of DNA. It is well known that DNA is slightly underwound inside [...]
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I don’t have any inside information, but my traffic spiked today—mostly related to search queries on “bcm rice merger” and originating from BCM. It could be nothing, but I haven’t seen much traffic to this blog lately related to the merger.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Update 1: Chron has the story. Citing the economic crisis as [...]
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Wow! This morning’s Houston Chronicle announces that Texas Children’s Hospital has joined the merger talks between Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University. Admittedly, I didn’t see that coming. I knew Leebron was serious when he said he didn’t want to run a hospital, so I was expecting them to sell it off.
My first impression [...]
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As expected, BCM announced last night that President Traber is stepping down. I‘ve already commented on Traber’s tenure at BCM. What I’d like to do here is make two comments on a positive development in the Rice-BCM negotiations that I’m excited about.
Bob McNair and Jim Hackett will be heading up a team to focus [...]
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The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday that Dr. Peter Traber is expected to leave his role as President of Baylor College of Medicine. The article says that Dr. William Butler, a former President of BCM, will be announced Wednesday as Traber’s interim replacement.
This is good news for BCM. I don’t think Traber ever understood that BCM’s [...]
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Today’s Houston Chronicle has an article and an editorial on the proposed merger between Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University based on an interview with Rice President David Leebron.
The key take-aways are:
Leebron expects to have a decision one way or another by the end of the academic year.
There is enormous positive support for the [...]
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Underwinding DNA Disrupts Its Structure
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