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UO E-clips, Oct. 14
News stories for October 14, 2008: The University of Pennsylvania's MedPage Today, an online continuing education publication, featured the hand-transplant/brain-mapping research of the UO's Scott Frey as a continuing medical education lesson titled 'Amputation-Induced Changes in Sensory Processing Found Reversible After Decades'; Bulgaria's Science Centric published an NSF news release on recent stickleback fish research that mentioned the UO's William Cresko; and KGW-TV Channel 8 Portland reports that a changing sign (the UO's White Stag one) is just about words
Amputation-Induced Changes in Sensory Processing Found Reversible After Decades (MedPage Today): A full allogeneic hand transplant 35 years after amputation has led to suggestions that sensory communication between the extremities and the brain can be re-established decades after they have been severed. Neurological studies in a man who underwent the hand transplant showed that sensory signals from the donor hand were processed in the same brain region that corresponds to the same hand in normal individuals, reported Scott H. Frey, Ph.D., of the University of Oregon, and colleagues in the Oct. 14 issue of Current Biology. The findings suggested that changes in neurosensory circuitry that occur following injuries to peripheral nerves are not permanent, but can be reversed if the nerves are repaired or replaced.
The genetics and adaptations of the Alaskan stickleback fish (Science Centric, Bulgaria): The stickleback fish, Gasterosteus aculeatus, is one of the most thoroughly studied organisms in the wild, and has been a particularly useful model for understanding variation in physiology, behaviour, life history and morphology caused by different ecological situations in the wild. On biological levels from molecular and genetic to developmental and morphological, and finally ending with the population level, it has proven far more complex than even imagined. ... Genetic mapping work on Alaskan stickleback was conducted by William Cresko at the University of Oregon and supported by the National Science Foundation.
Changes coming to made in Oregon sign (KGW-TV Channel 8 Portland): NEWSCASTER: There is going to be much discussion when the University of Oregon makes some changes to the White Stag sign, made in Oregon. What are they going to do? ANDY GIEGERICH, PORTLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL: Well, you know, my take is that I don't think it's going to be that much different. The word Oregon will be - it will remain the same on the sign. The big change is the words 'made in' will be gone, replaced by 'university of.' So the sign will remain the same. And the other big change is that - well, no change, is that the deer will stay the same. The white stag will still be there.