Day Three of Hunger Strike for Los Alamos High School Graduate
Alaric Balibrera is on day three of his hunger strike in protest of the continued development of nuclear weapons at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com.
Staff Report
Alaric Balibrera grew up in Los Alamos and is a graduate of Los Alamos High School. He studied film and television at UCLA.
Balibrera currently lives in Santa Fe, working as a screenwriter. Balibrera told the Los Alamos Daily Post that as young boy he played in Acid Canyon.
He is one of a number of hunger strikers participating in this protest. The hunger strike started on Monday, the 67th anniversary Read More
SFI: Seminar on The Immune System Detects Intruders by Randomly Migrating Detectors
SANTA FE INSTITUTE News:
Monday, July 23 • 12:15 p.m. • Medium Conference Room
The Immune System Detects Intruders by Randomly Migrating Detectors
Rob J. De Boer
Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics, Utrecht University; SFI External Professor
Abstract: The immune system is a distributed system where billions of individual cells, each carrying a unique receptor (detector), scavenge the body to detect the presence of pathogens (intruders) in any of its tissues.
The very few cells detecting a pathogen will expand, generating a large clone of effector cells that together become capable Read More
LANL: HIV Immunity Study Could Pave Way for Vaccine Development
LANL News:
- Los Alamos scientists among Duke-led consortium
Photo: LANL Researcher Bette Korber. Courtesy/LANL
Two Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are among the team recently funded to explore ways to create the precise immune factors needed for effective vaccines against HIV.
The Duke University-led consortium will largely concentrate on inducing broadly neutralizing antibodies that can prevent HIV-1 infection, as well as on generating protective T-cell and innate immune system responses.
“A vaccine-elicited broadly neutralizing antibody response has the potential Read More
16 Countries Take Part in NNSA Radiation Medical Training in Vienna
NNSA News:
Emergency responders. Courtesy/NNSA
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Participants from 16 countries took part in a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) international radiation medical (I-MED) training course last week in Vienna, Austria. The training was hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Joseph J. Krol, Rear Admiral, United States Navy (Retired), is the Associate Administrator for NNSA’s Office of Emergency Operations. Courtesy/NNSA
“The course instructed medical responders on how to treat injured contaminated patients following a radiation Read More
Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Hires MVM Group as Executive Director
COUNTY News:
–Attorney DeAnza Valencia Sapien will assume the lead role of executive director for the Coalition.
The Regional Coalition of LANL Communities announced Friday that it has contracted with the MVM Group to provide executive director services to help move the Coalition forward.
The MVM Group is a strategic consulting firm focused on the intersection of business strategy, public policy and reputation management.
Partners DeAnza Valencia Sapien, Yasine Mogharreban Armstrong and Lillian Montoya-Rael, lead the firm.
The MVM Group has extensive experience in assisting companies, Read More
SFI Lecture: Everything Is Obvious Once You Know The Answer
SFI News:
The Santa Fe Community Lecture, “The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everything that Seems Obvious Isn’t” is set for 7:30 p.m., Wednesday July 25 at the James A. Little Theater in Santa Fe.
Duncan Watts
Principal Researcher, Microsoft; author,”Everything Is Obvious Once You Know The Answer;” former SFI External Professor
Abstract: Relying on “common sense” is the sensible thing to do, right? Not always. Although common sense can be useful for dealing with everyday problems, it can suffer from systematic failures when applied to Read More
Filippenko will deliver 42nd Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture
OPPENHEIMER MEMORIAL LECTURE News:
Award-winning UC Berkeley astrophysicist Alex Filippenko will deliver the 42nd Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 20, in the Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos.
The lecture, “Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe,” is free and open to the public.
Filippenko has made a career of studying supernovae and using these cosmic beacons to probe the vastness of space.
Filippenko was a member of two independent teams that in 1998 reported, based on observations of supernovae, that the universe was expanding at a runaway pace.
The leaders of those Read More
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