Too Hot Not To Handle
Too Hot Not To Handle
March 27, 2008 [NOTE DATE CHANGE]
6:30 PM
Hodges Library 253
A primer on global warming, TOO HOT NOT TO HANDLE features contributions from leading scientists in the field. In addition to in-depth discussions of such subjects as the greenhouse effect, hurricanes, snowpack, hybrid vehicles, and alternative power sources, the film shows how businesses, local governments, and citizens are taking positive actions to reduce global warming emissions.
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Posted by Donna Braquet at March 16, 2008 in Biology Nights @ The Library | Comments (0)
Why Sex?
Why Sex?
February 18, 2008
6:30 PM
Hodges Library 253
Run time: 1 hour
In evolutionary terms, sex is more important than life itself. Sex fuels evolutionary change by adding variation to the gene pool. The powerful urge to pass our genes on to the next generation has likely changed the face of human culture in ways we're only beginning to understand.
The advantages of Sex>>
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Posted by Donna Braquet at January 16, 2008 in Biology Nights @ The Library | Comments (0)
The Last Antibiotics: Late Lessons from Early Warnings
The Last Antibiotics
April 10, 2008
6:30 PM
Hodges Library 253
The prescription of antibiotics is a medical tightrope-walk. The drugs save lives, but, because of overuse, may soon usher in a new era of super-germs. This program outlines the discoveries of bacteria and penicillin and sheds light on the frightening emergence of multi-resistant, often deadly microbes during the last six decades. Presenting interviews with researchers who are deeply involved with the issue--including Tufts University microbiology professor Stuart Levy and Eva Nathanson of the World Health Organization's Stop TB Program--the film examines the implications of antibiotic-enhanced livestock feed and the dangers that staphylococcus poses to hospital patients. Viewer discretion advised. Contains footage of injections, surgeries, and open wounds.
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Sexual Selection
Sexual selection in primates : new and comparative perspectives / edited by Peter M. Kappeler & Carel P. van Schaik.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL737.P9 * S444 2004
A red bird in a brown bag : the function and evolution of colorful plumage in the House Finch / Geoffrey E. Hill.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL696.P246 * H56 2002
Katydids and bush-crickets : reproductive behavior and evolution of the Tettigoniidae / Darryl T. Gwynne.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL508.T4 * G89 2001
Promiscuity : an evolutionary history of sperm competition / Tim Birkhead.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL761 * .B57 2000
The evolution of avian breeding systems / J. David Ligon ; original illustrations by Mike Ramos.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL698.3 * .L494 1999
Sperm competition and sexual selection / edited by T.R. Birkhead and A.P. Møller.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QP255 * .S638 1998
Sex, color, and mate choice in guppies / Anne E. Houde.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL638.P73 * H67 1997
Partnerships in birds : the study of monogamy / edited by Jeffrey M. Black ; drawings by Mark Hulme.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL698.3 * .P38 1996
Female control : sexual selection by cryptic female choice / William G. Eberhard.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL761 * .E23 1996
Sexual selection / Malte Andersson.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL761 * .A53 1994
Origins of nature's beauty / essays by Alexander F. Skutch ; illustrations by Dana Gardner.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL698.3 * .S557 1992
The ant and the peacock : altruism and sexual selection from Darwin to today / Helena Cronin.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL761 * .C76 1991
Sexual selection / James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL761 * .G68 1989
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Climate Change
Global climate change and U.S. law / Michael B. Gerrard, editor.
Hodges Library = Stacks * KF3775 * .G58 2007
Analysis of global change assessments : lessons learned / Committee on Analysis of Global Change Assessments, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division of Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * N352 2007
With speed and violence : why scientists fear tipping points in climate change / Fred Pearce.
Ag-Vet. Med Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * P415 2007
The climate of past interglacials / edited by Frank Sirocko ... [et al.].
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC884 * .C5756 2007
Climate Prediction and Agriculture [electronic resource] : Advances and Challenges / edited by Mannava V. K. Sivakumar, James Hansen.
Hot House [electronic resource] : Global Climate Change and the Human Condition / by Robert Strom.
Climate change and managed ecosystems [electronic resource] / edited by J.S. Bhatti ... [et al.].
Extreme floods : a history in a changing climate / Robert Doe.
Hodges Library = Stacks * GB1399.5.G7 * D64 2006
The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge / Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * D69 2006
The Future of Sustainability [electronic resource] / edited by Marco Keiner.
Climate change and global food security / edited by R. Lal ... [et al.].
Ag-Vet. Med Library = Stacks * S600.7.C54 * C6524 2005
Climate change : turning up the heat / A. Barrie Pittock.
Ag-Vet. Med Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * P58 2005
Perspectives on climate change : science, economics, politics, ethics / edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Richard Howarth.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * P47 2005
Beyond Kyoto: A New Global Climate Certificate System [electronic resource] : Continuing Kyoto Commitments or a Global Cap and Trade Scheme for a Sustainable Climate Policy? / by Lutz Wicke.
Climate change : a natural hazard / William Kininmonh.
Ag-Vet. Med Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * K55 2004
Climate change : five years after Kyoto / editor Velma I. Grover.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * C5153 2004
The crowded greenhouse : population, climate change, and creating a sustainable world / John Firor and Judith Jacobsen.
Hodges Library = Stacks * HB849.415 * .F57 2002
Global climate change / edited by Sharon L. Spray & Karen L. McGlothlin.
Ag-Vet. Med Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * G645 2002
Climate change : a multidisciplinary approach / William James Burroughs.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * B86 2001
Climate change : science, strategies, & solutions
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * C611 2001
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Antibiotics and MRSA
Enzyme-mediated resistance to antibiotics : mechanisms, dissemination, and prospects for inhibition / editors, Robert A. Bonomo, Marcelo Tolmasky.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QR177 * .E59 2007
Pneumonia before antibiotics : therapeutic evolution and evaluation in twentieth-century America / Scott H. Hodges Library = Stacks * RC771 * .P72 2006
Antibiotic policies : theory and practice / edited by Ian M. Gould and Jos W.M. van der Meer.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .A495 2005
Revenge of the microbes : how bacterial resistance is undermining the antibiotic miracle / Abigail A. Salyers and Hodges Library = Stacks * QR177 * .S26 2005
Frontiers in antimicrobial resistance : a tribute to Stuart B. Levy / editors, David G. White, Michael N. Alekshun, Hodges Library = Stacks * QR177 * .F76 2005
Magic bullets, lost horizons [electronic resource] : the rise and fall of antibiotics / Sebastian G.B. Amyes.
University Electronic Library = Electronic resource
The antibiotic paradox : how the misuse of antibiotics destroys their curative powers / Stuart B. Levy.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QR177 * .L48 2002
Overkill : how our nation's abuse of antibiotics and other germ killers is hurting your health and what you can do about it / Kimberly M. Thompson, with Debra Fulghum Bruce ; foreword by George D. Lundberg.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RA643 * .T48 2002
Magic bullets, lost horizons : the rise and fall of antibiotics / Sebastian G.B. Amyes.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .A49 2001
Launching the antibiotic era : personal accounts of the discovery and use of the first antibiotics / edited by Carol Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .L38 1990
Germs that won't die : medical consequences of the misuse of antibiotics / Marc Lappé.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .L36
Wonder drugs, a history of antibiotics. Translated from the German by Einhart Kawerau.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .B613 1963
Miracle drugs and the new age of medicine.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM262 * .R4 1962
Men, molds, and history.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .M29
Penicillin and other antibiotic agents, by Wallace E. Herrell.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RS165.P38 * H4
MRSA in practice / Ian M. Gould.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR201.S68 M775 2007
Infection control in home care and hospice / Emily Rhinehart, Mary McGoldrick Friedman.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA645.3 .R46 2006
The economics of infectious disease / edited by Jennifer A. Roberts.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA643 .E26 2006
Hospital infection : from Miasmas to MRSA / Graham A.J. Ayliffe and Mary P. English.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA969 .A953 2003
MRSA : current perspectives / edited by Ad C. Fluit and Franz-Josef Schmitz.
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: QR201 .S68 M78 2003
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Biology Nights: Fall 2007
Typhoid Mary
September 26
6:30-8:00
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
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Confessions of a Germ: The Plague
October 25
6:30-8:00
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
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(Double Feature!)
The Killer Flu
The Last Antibiotics
November 14
6:30-8:00
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
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Posted by Donna Braquet at December 14, 2007 in Biology Nights @ The Library | Comments (0)
Are there vaccines?
Many thanks to everyone who attended the film tonight.
Someone asked if the vaccine has become a reality.
From the CDC site, it mentions that the vaccine is not commercially available in the US.
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Thanks!
Posted by Donna Braquet at October 25, 2007 in Biology Nights @ The Library | Comments (1)
Info about Plague
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New combination vaccine effective against plague
New combination vaccine effective against plague
Disease/Infection News
Published: Wednesday, 18-May-2005
Plague, a bacterium that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages and is today one of the most feared potential agents of bio-terrorism, may have met its match, according to Wake Forest University School of Medicine scientists.
Steven B. Mizel, Ph.D., principal investigator, told the American Gastroenterological Association meeting in Chicago that when mice immunized with a new combination vaccine were challenged with a lethal dose of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, "the immune mice survived but the control mice succumbed in three days."
Mizel and his graduate student, Anna Honko, found that injecting a protein taken from plague bacteria into a mouse - one method of vaccination - produces little if any response in the mouse immune system. But if a protein termed flagellin is added to the vaccine, antibody levels against the plague bacteria are 500,000 times higher.
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Posted by Donna Braquet at October 25, 2007 in Biology Nights @ The Library | Comments (0)
