Mary Wirth
W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
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COVID-19: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
May 6, 2020
From the moment COVID-19 hit, scientists across disciplines have been combining their expertise, racing to adapt to the evolving situation. The pandemic has brought with it countless changes to both our personal and professional lives, but how are education and communication platforms adapting – and for how long will this be the case? In this special feature, we hear from professors testing new tech to keep students informed and engaged, and explore how Mary Wirth, Luigi Mondello and Rick Yost wrestled with dramatic changes to 2020’s conference season.
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A Lasting Legacy
November 7, 2018
In 1944, famine struck the Netherlands. Babies born soon after the end of the famine initially appeared to suffer few ill effects, but as they reached middle age they began to exhibit an unusual prevalence of heart disease and other metabolic disorders. Studies of the “Dutch Hongerwinter cohort” ultimately discovered that environmental factors can not only affect gene expression in an individual, but leave a lasting epigenetic imprint on their children. How can events that happened decades earlier affect later generations – and could we one day manipulate our epigenome to live longer, healthier lives? To find the answers, we need better, faster analytical tools.
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Slip Flow Star
July 22, 2013
The use of submicrometer particles in chromatography, viewed as heresy when first suggested a decade ago, is today seen as a possible quantum leap in separation efficiency. This is a first‑hand account of the origins of the idea, the experiments that yielded crystal-clear data and the literature on slip flow that provided an explanation of the remarkable findings.
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