Issue: 2011 November 7
Blue Jay teams flying high
November 7, 2011
Fourteen minutes into a recent home game versus Gettysburg College’s women’s soccer team, senior Johns Hopkins midfielder Ava Scheininger took a quick cross from sophomore Pamela Vranis and stretched out with her right foot to deftly direct the ball on goal, some 15 yards out. The ball sailed to the bottom left-hand corner of the […]
Calendar — November 7, 2011
November 7, 2011
BLOOD DRIVES Wed., Nov. 9, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. JHU/American Red Cross Blood Drive. For information, email johnshopkinsblooddrive@ jhmi.edu or call 410-614-0913. Johns Hopkins at Eastern. COLLOQUIA Tues., Nov. 8, 4:15 p.m. “Toward Understanding and Combating Bacterial Resistance to Aminoglycoside Antibiotics,” a Chemistry colloquium with Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, University of Michigan, LSI. 233 Remsen. HW […]
JHU’s got talent—and passion
November 7, 2011
Got a great idea to share, or a skill to show off? Johns Hopkins this week launches a new multimedia, community-building experience that is part open-mic night and part grown-up show and tell. Ignite@JHU is a series of five-minute talks where presenters—students, staff and faculty—will share their personal and professional passions using 20 slides that […]
Cancer-causing protein tied to hormone resistance in breast cancer
November 6, 2011
In dozens of experiments in mice and in human cancer cells, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists has closely tied production of a cancer-causing protein called TWIST to the development of estrogen resistance in women with breast cancer. Because estrogen fuels much breast cancer growth, such resistance—in which cancers go from estrogen-positive to estrogen-negative status—can […]