Beginning Monday, the parking lot south of the Shiley Eye Center will be closed to allow for construction to begin on the new Cancer Center. Two new lots will open to avoid parking problems occurring because of the loss of spaces. Some 220 spaces will be available north of the Shiley Eye Care Center and 50 spaces will open up west of Thornton Hospital.
Faculty art to go on display at the Grove Gallery
Artwork created by members of the UCSD faculty will go on display at the Grove Gallery in an exhibition titled “”Framed.”” A reception to celebrate the artists’ work will be held Thursday, Oct. 4 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The various mediums that are represented in the show include ceramics, drawing, glassblowing, jewelry, neon, painting, photography and weaving. Each art piece, regardless of medium, features a frame, hence the title “”Framed.””
Artists to be featured include Janis Saunders, Patricia McGillis, Lucy Wang, Toru Nakatani, Chet Wooding, Dan McMullin, Pangea, Cara Moczygemba, Jay Whaley, Patricia G. Yockey, Buzz Blodgett, DeeDee Coppedge, Heather Pieters, Jean Ellen Wilder and Paul Linsley.
Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. “”Framed”” will be on display until Oct. 27.
UCSD scientists find Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s link
Scientists from UCSD’s Department of Neurosciences and Pathology, UCSF’s Department of Neurology, and the Glandstone Institute of Neurological Diseases recently found that proteins affiliated with Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease can work with each other to exacerbate the degenerative effects of each disease.
The findings are important because they prove that therapies that reduce or block the proteins can be more beneficial than previously known. Nearly one in three Alzheimer’s patients develop Parkinson’s, while some Parkinson’s patients also develop Alzheimer’s. Both are neurological diseases.
UCSD scientists Elizer Masliah, Edward Rockenstein, Isaac Veinbergs, Yutaka Sagara, Margaret Mallory and Makoto Hashimoto worked on the project. The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science on Sept. 25.
SIO researcher discovers new forms of life on ocean floor
Herbert Staudigel of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, along with researchers from Norway and Canada, report in the Sept. 28 edition of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems that they have apparently found the bottom of the biosphere.
They found evidence of microbes eating through rock alterations in lava rock, called glass. This was discovered by drilling four miles below sea level. Prior to the discovery, it was thought that there was no biological activity, just chemical and physical activity in ocean-bottom rock formations.
The alterations in which the microbes were found are important because the chemical interactions between rock and sea water influence the carbon cycle process that affects the earth’s climate.
Harald Furnes, Ingun H. Thoreseth, Terje Torsvik, Ole Tumyr all from Norway’s Bergen University, and Karlis Muehlenbachs the University of Alberta in Edmonton co-authored the study.