Brianne K. Connizzo • Lin Han Robert L. Sah Editors 2023 A Tribute to Alan Grodzinsky on his 75th Birthday It is a great pleasure and honor to introduce this festschrift for the celebration of the 75th birthday of our mentor, Professor Alan J. Grodzinsky. On Saturday, November 13, 2021, colleagues, collaborators, and trainees gathered […]

Edited by Eirini Papagiakoumou 2023

Paulo Sérgio Boggio • Tanja S. H. Wingenbach Marília Lira da Silveira Coêlho William Edgar Comfort Lucas Murrins Marques Marcus Vinicius C. Alves Editors 2023 From Theory to Methodology This book on social and affective neuroscience was inspired by an event, the Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science on Social and Affective Neuroscience (SPSAN), which […]

Amelie G. Ramirez • Edward J. Trapido Editors 2023 Building Collaboration for Action The Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos national conference was a call to action for addressing cancer health disparities in Hispanic/Latino communities. It emerged from the need for Latino disparities researchers to seek solutions through multidisciplinary collaborations and to keep pace […]

Edited by Anton W. Langerak 2022 Adaptive immune cells (lymphocytes) are equipped with unique antigen receptors, termed immunoglobulins (IG) and T cell receptors (TR), which collectively form a highly diverse repertoire. In the lymphocytes, IG/TR diversity is actually created at the DNA level, thus giving rise to an enormous adaptive immune receptor repertoire (also known […]

Edited by Karl-Dieter Entian 2022 Ribosomes are the organelles that synthesize proteins according to the genetically encoded information. Whereas prokaryotic ribosomes were even reconstituted in vitro, eukaryotic ribosomes are more complex. In yeast—as a eukaryotic model organism—about 5–10% of the genomic capacity is needed for the biogenesis of a ribosome. Worldwide a remarkable number of […]

Editor Anne Le 2021 Genetic alterations in cancer, in addition to being the fundamental drivers of tumorigenesis, can give rise to a variety of metabolic adaptations that allow cancer cells to survive and proliferate in diverse tumor microenvironments. This metabolic fexibility is different from normal cellular metabolic processes and leads to heterogeneity in cancer metabolism […]

Anton Bespalov • Martin C. Michel • Thomas Steckler Editors 2020 Pharmacologists and other experimental life scientists study samples to infer conclusions about how a molecule, cell, organ, and/or organism work in health and disease and how this can be altered by drugs. The concept of inference implies that whatever is reported based on the […]