| Title | Publication, date | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| NIH’s Roadmap Plots New Course For Biomedical Science | BioWorld Perspectives 1(28), 5 Jul 2007 | Lead feature in an e-zine, about translational research |
| Faulty tower? | Pacific Sun 6 Jan 2005 | A blind thrust fault under Mt. Tamalpais seems to connect the powerful fault systems of the East Bay with Marin County |
| Science blockade | The Nation 278(15):6; 19 Apr 2004 | How the Patriot Act suppresses scientific exchange |
| US pressures publishers to honor trade embargoes | Nature Medicine 10(2):109, Feb 2004 | An obscure agency of the US Treasury Dept. bars scientific manuscripts from Iran and other countries from being edited and reviewed. |
| Phenotype database opens for business | The Scientist 16(20):18, Oct 14, 2002 | Database of drug interactions keyed to genotype commences operations at Stanford |
| Resurrecting the resurrection drug | Nature Medicine 8(9):908 Sep, 2002 | How a life-saving drug for the Third World was rescued by a life-style drug for the first world |
| ...And at the CDC | Nature Medicine 8(1):6 Jan, 2002 | How the nation's premier public health agency responded to 9-11 |
| Proteomics technology: character references | Nature 413:869-875, Oct 25, 2001 | Technology survey of equipment and services: overview, protein chips, mass spectrometry, high throughput & automation, software, comprehensive list of vendors. |
| Training in a hybrid discipline | NatureJobs 4, in Nature 413, Oct 25, 2001 | Bioinformatics training is marred by over-emphasis of linear sequence and old-fashioned computer science, say Russ Altman (Stanford) and Francis Ouellette (Univ of British Columbia). |
| Researchers delve further into psoriasis genetics | Dermatology Times 22(9):16, Sep 2001 | Genetics of a complex disease are gradually being resolved. |
| Goekermann Tx still hard to beat | Dermatology Times 22 Supp 4:S-11, Sep 2001 | A psoriasis regime from the 1920's holds up well to the best of today's advanced therapies. |
| Strategies from around the world | Dermatology Times 22 Supp 4:S-20, Sep 2001 | Local health economies and custom in Rx make for diversity of psoriasis treatments. |
| Special Report: Mathematics | NatureJobs 4-5, in Nature 413, Aug 9 2001 | Dwindling interest by US students leads to imports of yet another vital commodity: mathematicians. Includes boxes on biostatistics, a growth industry, and math at the National Security Agency, the world's largest employer of mathematicians. |
| Chemicals, drugs aggravate photodamage risk | Dermatology Times 22(6):34, June 2001 | Specific occupations and substances put workers at risk. |
| The birthplace of biotech, California
Box: Davis sows seeds for future
Box: Bay Area building boom |
Nature (NatureJobs) 411:398 ff., May 17, 2001 | The San Francisco Bay Area, where biotech was born 25 years ago with the founding of Genentech, is now home to 800 biotech companies. Advertorial. | Labs and companies seek their niches as work continues after the draft
Following the growth of data Needed: biologists who can create software |
Nature 409:961-4 Feb 15 2001 | Bioinformatics in the post-sequence era. Includes profile of UC Santa Cruz's David Haussler. |
| Genomic prizes beckon at finish line of Joint Genome Institute's Microbial Marathon | Bioinform 4(32) Dec 18 2000 | DOE's JGI can sequence a microbial genome in a day and a half. |
| CORBA shows signs of life in bioinformatics | Bioinform 4(30) Dec 2 2000 | OMG's middleware may be the answer for complex data types. |
| New NCBI Database Hopes to Become the GenBank for Gene Expression Information | Bioinform 4(28) Nov 20 2000 | NCBI's new gene expression database gets ready for an expected flood of data. |
| Functional genomics group highlights shift toward structure | Bioinform 4(29) Nov 27 2000 | Software maker MSI forms Functional Genomics and High Throughput Crystallography working groups. |
| New company banks on secure gene data | Bioinform 4(25) Oct 30 2000 | First Genetic Trust will encrypt patient data to improve trial security, informed consent. |
| Incyte defectors start new structure company | Bioinform 4(21) Oct 2 2000 | Prospect Genomics will use advanced software to predict folds and docking interactions. |
| Berkeley to train biology's next generation | Bioinform 4(20) Sep 25 2000 | Joint NSF/NIH grants will produce the scientists and inventions of the post-genome age. |
| "Blue Gene" supercomputer aims to crack the folding problem | Bioinform 4(21) Oct 2 2000 | IBM's $100M massively parallel petaflop supercomputer will be devoted to protein structure. |
| Cobweb science: ontology weaves bioinformatics knowledge structures | Genome Technology, Oct 2000 | The Bio-Ontologies Consortium aims to level bioinformatics' Tower of Babel (reporting only; no byline). |
| Format, exchange standards strain to keep pace | The Scientist, July 24, 2000 | Proliferation of data dialects is a growing problem in bioinformatics. |
| Genomics helps decipher PXE, IP defects | Dermatology Times 21(11):28, Nov 2000 | DNA technology and clinical medicine come together in 2 multifactorial skin diseases (incontinentia pigmenti, pseudoxanthoma elasticum). |
| Topical dapsone may extend acne, itch Tx options | Dermatology Times, Oct 2000 | Clever chemistry extends the range of a powerful antibiotic best known for its role in leprosy Tx. |
| Future is bright for engineered tissue | Dermatology Times, Oct 2000 | Derm is the first specialty to benefit from tissue engineering; many others will follow. |
| Postdocs reject academic research Organization pays |
Nature 407:429-430 Sep 21, 2000 | Highly educated scientists suffer a Malthusian employment crisis. |
| AHA announces support for the technique | Nature Medicine. 2000 Aug;6(8):845 | American Heart Association decides that stem cells have a bright future in cardiology. |
| Troubled academic medical school escapes censure | Nature Medicine 6(7):724-5 July 2000 | MCP Hahnemann, a 150-year old medical school in Philadelphia, survives in the age of the HMO. |
| US minorities stake their claim in science and engineering
Canadian aborigines get overlooked Access to education provides a way out |
Nature 405:717-8 8 June 2000 | The plight of minorities in the world's greatest locus of science and engineering |
| NIH revamps HIV vaccine trials unit | Nature Medicine 6(5):488 May 2000 | NIH hopes reorganization will launch vaccine candidates |
| $1 million study renews HIV/transplant research | Nature Medicine 6(4):365 April 2000 | Thanks to protease inhibitors, HIV+ patients can be good candidates for organ transplants |
| PLK, a prognostic indicator for thin melanomas | Dermatology Times, May 2000 | A nuclear protein originally discovered in Drosophila as an identifier of a dangerous cancer |
| Next generation biologists must straddle computation and biology
Industry is draining bioinformatics talent from universities faster than it can be replenished Multiple degrees for multiple disciplines Borrowing methods and models |
Nature 404:683-688 6 April 2000 | Careers and training in bioinformatics, plus profiles of three bioinformaticists |
| CHI speakers cite dropping costs and increasing speeds of genome analysis | Agricultural Genomics 3(6):4, 20 Mar 2000
Bioinform 4(6), Mar 2000 |
Report from a genomics conference in San Francisco |
| Genetic basis of Papillon-Lefevre Syndrome discovered | Dermatology Times 21(2):12, Feb 2000 | Defect in a lysosomal enzyme is at the root of a disease of skin and gum. |
| Latex allergy poses threat to patients, practitioners | Dermatology Times 21(2):16, Feb 2000 | Rise in allergy and anaphylaxis is a side effect of AIDS/hepatitis epidemics. |
| Apoptosis-based approaches to BPH Tx | Urology Times, Feb 2000 | Prognostication about gene-based options for treating prostate disease |
| Medical and device treatments for BPH compared | Urology Times, Feb 2000 | Analysis of prostate disease options |
| Conservative Tx, extravagant cost in BPH | Urology Times, Feb 2000 | The contradiction between treatment-conservative and cost-conservative practice |
| MAG's demise signals trouble for bioinformatics firms | Nature Biotechnology 18(2):144, Feb 2000 | Specialty software companies feel the pinch |
| Exploring the territory in tissue engineering Progress from a fragile start |
Nature 403(6768):464ff 27 Jan 2000 | Three features on careers in tissue engineering |
| $150 Million for Biomedicine at Stanford | Nature Medicine 5 (12) p. 1338, Dec 1999 | Stanford's biggest ever gift for a multi-disciplinary life sciences center |
| Genetics in the information age | Bioinform (Bionformatics Publishing) 3(22), Nov 99 | ASHG president says geneticists have replaced their microscopes with computers |
| Diversa fast-forwards evolution | Agricultural Genomics (Waters Publishing), Oct 99 | Mass production discovery of unknown enzymes from unknown microbes |
| New funding boosts Canadian bioinformatics | Bioinform (Waters Publishing, New York), Sep 1999 | Sequencing, networking and high performance computing in Canada. |
| Analysis is next "big crunch" | Bioinform 3(13):8 June 21, 1999 | Galaxies of information in the Big Bang of genomics, from the CHI meeting in San Francisco |
| Chemistry by the numbers | Nature, Aug 19, 1999 | Careers in combinatorial chemistry |
| The end of the brain drain | Nature, May 1999 | Careers in startup companies; immigrants in the high-tech labor force |
| Expanding Canada's knowledge base | Nature, Feb 11, 1999 | Science and science careers in Canada |
| Engineered skin breaks wound-healing impasse | Dermatology Times, July-October, 1999 | How immunology and materials science make life easier for burn patients and others |
| Future bright for pediatric derm therapies | " | State of the art in ringworm, scleroderma, lichen slcerosus, etc. treatments |
| Battlefield medicine benefits general dermatology | " | Spinoffs to general derm from mustard gas research |
| Melanoma vaccines make progress | " | Melanoma vaccines - still in a relatively crude state of development - are surveyed |
| Difficult choices in pediatric hemangioma Tx | " | Kasabach-Merritt Phenomenon, a life-threatening vascular tumor in children |
| Chickenpox vaccination prevents deadly strep infection | " | Necrotizing fasciitis as a complication of chickenpox |
| Topical lidocaine patch allays shingles pain | " | A new way to cope with an old medical problem |
| Dermatology at the beginning of the Golden Age | " | Cancer cures and other advances are foreseen by a department head at Rockefeller University |
| Genomics will change dermatology, research chief predicts | " | Crystal ball-gazing by the head of the Nat Inst Allergic & Musculoskeletal Diseases |
| Skin lesion diagnosis in 3-D | " | How to evaluate observations from epiluminescence microscopy |
| Current trends in dermatologic surgery | " | Skin cancer linked to organ transplants; imaging technology for pigmented lesions; dermatoscopy; sentinel node biopsy |
| Vitamin E: Conventional wisdom wrong again | " | Topical vitamin E to soften scars probably doesn't work |
| Electronic urology meetings in the new millennium | Urology Times, mid-1999 | The Web will change doctor-patient relations and awarding of CME credits |
| New directions in stone management | " | How new technology has changed treatment |
| To scope or shock? -- optimal treatment for ureteral calculi | " | Relative benefits of shock wave lithotripsy and endoscopy are weighed |
| Open surgery may still be appropriate | " | Sometimes the only way to get rid of stones is to cut |
| Doctors are key to resolving US managed care crisis, experts say | " | Views on the crisis in healthcare costs and coverage in the US |
| Welcome to Kobe-by-the-Bay | East Bay Express 21(13):4 Jan 1, 1999 | Seismology, paleoseismology: a USGS scientist predicts a large quake in Berkeley |
| Water and welfare: hydrology options | Nature 396:496 Dec 3 1998 | The Third World has a particular need for good water management |
| Problem solving for the whole earth | Nature 396:493 Dec 3 1998 | Careers in geosciences, from the NAS symposium "Minerals, geology and human welfare," Irvine, CA, Nov 1998 |
| History and Technique of Cloning, in The Human Cloning Debate | Berkeley Hills Books (Berkeley, CA), Sep, 1998 | Introduction to an anthology for the general reader |
| Diagnosis & treatment of ejaculatory duct obstruction | Urology Times, early 1999 | Clinical practice |
| Predicting treatment success for male infertility | " | " |
| Disturbing trends in male reproductive health | " | Epidemiology: there seems to be a worldwide trend of falling sperm counts and increases in hypospadias |
| Anomalies following ART & ICSI | " | " |
| SRY and the testis-determining factor | " | Y chromosome genetics |
| Newly discovered fertility genes on Y chromosome | " | " |
| Researchers delve into DAZ to expand fertility Tx | " Jan 1999 | " |
| Posthumous reproduction | " | Medicine & law discussion, based on the case of a woman who had sperm recovered from her deceased 19 year old son to be used to conceive her future grandchild |
| Partnerships and the critical mass | Nature 395:410-11, Sep 24, 1998 | Money from large industrial partners supports basic research but may compromise scientific integrity |
| Legal recourse: alternatives in science careers | Nature, June 4, 1998 | Hybrid science careers |
| Action at the edges: careers in cancer research | Nature, Mar 29, 1998 | The head of the Institut Curie is eloquent about opportunities and need in this field |
| Favouring the brave: cell biology careers | Nature, Feb 19, 1998 | The future is very bright, says the head of life sciences at Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
| Between threshold and ceiling: women and minorities in science | Nature, Dec. 1997 | Their under-representation is due more to their education before university than to discrimination at the professional level |
| Choices & challenges in bioinformatics careers | Nature, Sep 25, 1997 | Careers at the junction of biology and computing |
| Complexity theory & mechanisms of bladder cancer | Urology Times, June, 1998 | Clinical research |
| Biomarkers of bladder cancer | " | " |
| Effect of estrogen and pregnancy on the bladder | " | " |
| Computerized image analysis | Dermatology Times, 1997 | Digital imaging in medicine based on fractal analysis |
| Effect of managed care on graduate education | " | Public policy & medicine: medical schools and teaching hospitals are on the verge of a drastic financial shock |
| New topical antioxidants: facts and misconceptions | Dermatology Times | Vitamin C-based "cosmeceuticals" |
| Medirisk, a new Academy service | " | An algorithm that helps doctors judge their HMOs |
| Legislative action and HMOs at the State level | " | Politics and medicine |
| AUA treatment guidelines for erectile dysfunction | Modern Medicine, Dec 97 | Clinical guidelines on the eve of Viagra |
| The molecular basis of erection | " | Physiologically the process is quite intricate |
| Drugs to treat impotence: present and future | " | Injections, pellets, and a forecast of Viagra |
| How to manage hair loss in children | Chronicle of Skin & Allergy (Toronto) | Practical tips for clinicians |
| Managing arthropod infestations in children | " | " |
| New antibiotics for dermatology | " | " |
| Advances in sclerotherapy | " | " |
| Eyelid dermatitis | " | " |
| Alopecia in children | " | " |
| After the deluge: photographing California wildflowers in 1997 | Quarterly Magazine of the Museum of California, March, 1997 | Nature photography feature |
| Middle ground is key to lowering blood pressure | Modern Medicine, Spring- Summer, 1997 | |
| Hypertension dangerous to diabetics | " | |
| Pregnancy, drugs and dermatology | " | |
| Difficult fungal infections | " | |
| Quality control issues in dermatology | " | |
| Patient information sheets | " | |
| New medications for psoriasis | " | |
| Out in a flash: treating birthmarks with the flashlamp-pulsed dye laser | Chronicle of Skin & Allergy, August, 1996 | Dermatology, medical lasers |
| Russian biofeedback method allays asthma panic | Modern Medicine | |
| "Red Alert" plan aims to stave off asthma deaths | " | Acute asthma attacks are up, especially in minority children |
| Asthma and the mind-body problem | " | |
| Self-monitoring benefits asthma patients | " | |
| Psoriasis update: cyclosporine not a last resort | Chronicle of Skin & Allergy Apr 1996 | Pharmacology: a powerful drug against a recalcitrant condition |
| Hand-wrist combat | Rehab Management, Oct 1995 | Sports injuries of the hand & wrist |
| Muscle weakness | Project House/Merck Feb-Apr 1994 | Health encyclopedia article |
| Sweating disorders | " | " |
| Sunlight and the skin | " | " |
| Superficial skin disorders | " | " |
| Dermatologic mimics of child abuse | Dermatology Times, April, 1997 | Dermatology, pediatrics. Unfortunately, the real thing is more common than the mimic |
| Jet injection could allay fear and pain of needle | Chronicle of Urology & Sexual Medicine, 1997 | A pre-Viagra urological expedient |
| Canadian study confirms Alprostadil efficacy | " | " |
| Endocrine therapy for male contraception considered | " | " |
| Psychiatric problems foil erectile dysfunction treatment | " | When attitude overrules altitude |
| Cosmetics for the practicing dermatologist | Dermatology Times | |
| Dermatology 1997: where are we heading? | " | |
| 5-alpha reductase inhibitors and androgenic alopecia | " | |
| Contracting with managed care | " | |
| Martinez explosion punctuates refinery safety debate | East Bay Express, (Berkeley, CA) Jan 23, 1997 | Feature article: public safety, environmental politics |
| "My Wife Smells Something": West Oakland's Toxics Scare | East Bay Express, Nov 29, 1996 | Feature article: environmental toxicology, public health |
| Unocal Refinery fire reignites dioxin fears | East Bay Express, May 31, 1996 | Feature article: environment, chemistry |
| Controversy plagues biotech training project | East Bay Express, Aug 2, 1996 | Feature article: biotechnology, education |
| Unwelcome guest: vinyl chloride in Cypress path | East Bay Express, Sep 6, 1996 | Environmental chemistry in a popular newspaper |
| From Merlin to Milpitas: the next frontier in California biotech | Quarterly Magazine of the Museum of California, Summer, 1992 | Biotech industry & science survey |
| Is spirometry practical in your office? | Patient Care (Miller-Freeman pubs., 1979 | Review of pulmonary function test equipment |
| Moth-bat combat | Science Digest, 1975 | Animal behavior: Noctuid moths have a sonar-jamming organ |
| Title | Publisher, date | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| "Biotech Brief" | Life Sciences Documentation (Oakland CA), publisher 1988-1996 | Newsletter: 200+ editions, vol 1-16.
Research, patents, and early trials results View Vol 16 No 12 (Dec 15, 1995) as an Adobe PDF file |
| Project | Client, date | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Contract writing | DoubleTwist, Inc (Oakland, CA), Apr-May 2000 | Marketing copy, online help |
| Contract writing | Structural Bioinformatics, Inc (San Diego), Feb-Jun 2000 | Marketing copy, print & online help |
| GeneCat ("Panther" technology, spun off to Celera) | Molecular Applications Group (MAG), Palo Alto, CA, Fall, 1999 | Software for genome functional analysis using remote homology detection based on Hidden Markov Models and threading. Online help. |
| Stingray, expression analysis system, versions 1.0, 1.1 (technology spun off to Affymetrix) | MAG, Apr-Sep 1999 | User guide + reference for client-server system for analysis of "DNA on a chip" microarray expression data. Includes sysadmin installation guide |
| GeneMine Enterprise | MAG, Jan-Apr 1998 | User guide & reference + sysadmin reference for automated bioinformatics search engine and relational database software |
| DiscoveryBase | MAG, Jan-Apr 1998 | Packaged genetic + structure database software for drug discovery & research |
| Look v3 + Modeling Package | MAG, Apr-Dec, 1997 | User guide + reference manual for workstation-based sequence analysis + structural modeling software |
| Discovery Engine | MAG, Apr-Dec 1997 | User guide + reference manual for SGI workstation-based automated bioinformatics network search engine software |
| MacLook 2.1 | MAG, Apr-May 1997 | User manual for protein structural modeling software |
| MANSCAN 3.0 | SAM/EEG Technology, Inc., San Francisco, CA; Aug-Nov 1996 | Quick guide, reference manual, 5 appendices, online help, programmer documentation for high-resolution brain-mapping software based on integrating EEG trace and MRI scan information. |
| "FM-BIO User Manual" | Hitachi Software Engineering, Ltd., (HISAL) San Bruno, CA, Sep 1995 | User manual for laser-excited fluorescence gel scanning hardware + digital image generation and analysis software |
| "DNASIS for Windows User Manual" | HISAl, Apr 1995 | User manual for comprehensive DNA/RNA/protein sequence + structure analysis software |
| Gene Bright for Apple Macintosh | HISAL, Dec 1994 | User manual for software + hardware for homology-matching based on the Smith-Waterman algorithm |
| "EasyReader for Windows, User Manual" | HISAL, Feb 1994 | User manual for DNA sequence/Western blot gel scanning software |
| "MacDNASIS User Manual Versions 1-3" | HISAL, 1991-94 | User manuals for multiple versions of a popular molecular biology package |
| "CD-STRAINS, a Microorganism Database" | HISAL, Sep 1993 | User manual and product literature for CD-ROM microbiology database |
| Title | Publication, date | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Ship out of water | The Berkeley Monthly, Feb 1982 | Literary memoir |
| Cool man, puddle of steel | New York Times, Feb 1979 | Op-ed page essay |
| 300 hours | East Bay Express, April 1996 | Memoir, 10,000 words |
| Chasing Cats | TRA (Toward Revolutionary Art) 2(3); 1972 | short story |
| Title | Publisher, date | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| History and Technique of Cloning, in "The Human Cloning Debate" | Berkeley (Berkeley Hills Books) editions 1-4, 1998-2004, revised Jan, 2004 | Introductory chapter in anthology used in undergraduate bioethics courses (Glenn McGee, general editor) |
| "Crazy Money: nine months on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline" | New York (Random House),1979 | Memoir, commercial trade book |
Academic
| Title | Publisher/agency, date | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Electrolytic apparatus for enhanced growth of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans | Society for Industrial Microbiology, Spring Symposium, Apr 1991 | Symposium paper, first prize winner |
| Thiobacillus ferrooxidans: the fur gene and iron metabolism | San Francisco State University, May 1993 | MA thesis |
| "Biotech Drug Development" | Pro-Health Communications, Inc., Aug 1995 | Textbook chapter, pharmacology |
| "Bay Area Bridges to Bio-Science" | Laney College (Oakland, CA), Jan. 1995 | Grant proposal: NIH grant proposal for biosciences education improvement |
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