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HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Robin Marantz Henig	Avant Garde Scientist The science of smell has intrigued Leslie Vosshall for years. In her office at Rockefeller, where she is head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, she hopes scientists will be able to do for smell what is possible for vision and sound: provide an objective measurement.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Sarah C. P. Williams	The Fat You Can't See Without the liver acting as a filter and energy producer, a person can't survive, and no artificial organ can perform all of its duties. But in one in three Americans -- and similar numbers in other developed nations -- the liver has lost its luster.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Ivan Amato	The View from Here "Every major advance in imaging technology precipitates a new round of breakthroughs in cell biology," says structural biologist Grant Jensen, an HHMI investigator at the California Institute of Technology.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Virginia Hughes	Dianne Newman: Connecting Cultures Medical and environmental microbiologists have separate scientific cultures, but the same he same methods geochemists apply to sediments and ice cores can be tweaked for cells, tissues, and organs.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 R. John Davenport	Hanchuan Peng: SmartScopes Even when he launched his career as an engineer and computer scientist, Hanchuan Peng was drawn to the beauty of biology. He is a leader in developing sophisticated ways to make sense of biological images.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Jennifer Michalowski	Good Stewards Larry Mendoza is president of the Virginia Herpetological Society and a co-founder of Janelia's Nature Club, through which he gathers crews for a series of herpetological surveys of the Janelia Farm grounds.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Elise Lamar	Push and Pull Jennifer Zallen, an HHMI early career scientist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, studies how embryonic tissues stretch along an anterior-posterior axis using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Rabiya Tuma	Undercover Triathlete Along with training and travel to races, Erika Erickson makes sure that her research on the structure and function of proteins involved in photosynthesis progresses at a reasonable pace.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Nicole Kresge	Stepping into Sustainability Baumann is an HHMI early career scientist at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri. In his spare time he hunts, grows, raises, and gathers almost 80 percent of the food that he and his wife, Diana, and their two dogs consume.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Richard Saltus	Nerve Tonic A mouse with a random mutation changed forever the way scientists think about how injured nerves die -- and how, conceivably, their death might be delayed or prevented.
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