Every Thursday in my department we have a seminar speaker. Sometimes they are BYU professors and sometimes they are scientists invited from other universities, government labs, nonprofit labs, or biotech firms. The seminars are generally informative and give students the opportunity to learn about science as it is practiced in the world. Sometimes they put up information that I think should be publicly available. So I recreate it and put it up on Wikimedia.[1] Since the semester is over, there are no more seminars to be had until next September. Thus I'm introducing you to the two files I created this semester.
The traditional understanding of cystic fibrosis is that Staphylococcus aureus (brown) and Haemophilus influenzae (blue) infections are prevalent up through the teenage years and that Pseudomonas aeruginosa (green) infections become clinically important during later years (and that rare Burkholderia cepacia (red) infections also become slightly more prevalent).[2] I recreated the graph and inserted it into the Wikipedia article on cystic fibrosis.
This is the structure of TMRM (tetramethylrhodamine methyl ester perchlorate). It is a fluorescent dye used to stain microscopic structures so they can be more easily distinguished. There is currently no Wikipedia article for it, and I didn't bother creating one.
Notes:
[1] However, I'm careful not to recreate anything that would compromise their research.
[2] The visiting researcher, Dr. Michael Surette from McMaster Univesrity, found that, contrary to the conventional view of cystic fibrosis infections, Streptococcus constellatus was responsible for pulmonary exacerbations, not Pseudomonas aeruginosa. See Sibley, C. B. et al. (2008) "A polymicrobial perspective of pulmonary infections exposes an enigmatic pathogen in cystic fibrosis patients." PNAS 105 (39):15070–5.
Image attributions:
Cystic fibrosis respiratory infections by age is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cystic Fibrosis Respiratory Infections by Age.svg.
The chemical structure of TMRM is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tetramethylrhodamine methyl ester perchlorate.svg.
The traditional understanding of cystic fibrosis is that Staphylococcus aureus (brown) and Haemophilus influenzae (blue) infections are prevalent up through the teenage years and that Pseudomonas aeruginosa (green) infections become clinically important during later years (and that rare Burkholderia cepacia (red) infections also become slightly more prevalent).[2] I recreated the graph and inserted it into the Wikipedia article on cystic fibrosis.
This is the structure of TMRM (tetramethylrhodamine methyl ester perchlorate). It is a fluorescent dye used to stain microscopic structures so they can be more easily distinguished. There is currently no Wikipedia article for it, and I didn't bother creating one.
Notes:
[2] The visiting researcher, Dr. Michael Surette from McMaster Univesrity, found that, contrary to the conventional view of cystic fibrosis infections, Streptococcus constellatus was responsible for pulmonary exacerbations, not Pseudomonas aeruginosa. See Sibley, C. B. et al. (2008) "A polymicrobial perspective of pulmonary infections exposes an enigmatic pathogen in cystic fibrosis patients." PNAS 105 (39):15070–5.
Image attributions:
Cystic fibrosis respiratory infections by age is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cystic Fibrosis Respiratory Infections by Age.svg.
The chemical structure of TMRM is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tetramethylrhodamine methyl ester perchlorate.svg.
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