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Sensei Ag, a market-changing AgTech company, today announced the appointment of Jijun Zou as the Company s Chief Scientific Officer. As part of Sensei Ag s executive leadership team, Dr. Zou will be responsible for setting the Company s scientific strategy and priorities, overseeing and building Sensei Ag s R&D pipeline and spearheading the Company s global day-to-day research operations.
Jijun Zou, Chief Scientific Officer (Photo: Sensei Ag) I am extraordinarily pleased that Jijun has joined our team, said Sonia Lo, Chief Executive Office of Sensei Ag. Jijun brings a wealth of experience to Sensei Ag, gained from a 20-year career in the agriculture sector. His leadership skills and deep expertise will be terrific assets as we further expand and realize our mission to solve global gaps and inconsistencies in nutrition, food safety and food security through the transformative power of data.
15 Dec 2020
Can making ephemeral anti-inflammatory fatty acids stick around a little longer protect people against Alzheimer’s disease? It just might, according to a study by Hui Zheng and colleagues at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, published December 9 in Science Translational Medicine.
In AD brain and 5xFAD mice, epoxide hydrolase is up and its anti-inflammatory products are down.
Astrocytes express this lipid metabolism enzyme.
In mice, inhibiting it restored epoxy fatty acids and a chain of consequences at molecular, synaptic, and behavioral levels of investigation.
These so-called epoxy fatty acids, or EpFAs, protect neurons; alas, epoxide hydrolases quickly break them down. The scientists found more epoxide hydrolase in brain tissue from people with AD and 5xFAD mice than in controls, corresponding to fewer epoxy fatty acids in the mice. Long-term treatment with an inhibitor curbed the hydrolase and boosted EpFA concentration in the mice’s brains. Inhibiting
Board names new chair, vice-chairs in light of Holland passing
Cailey Gleeson, News Editor|December 15, 2020
DePaul University’s Board of Trustees appointed Gerald A. Beeson chair of the department and Karen Atwood and Harry Harczak vice-chairs effective immediately through June 30, 2021, according to an email sent to community members Tuesday morning.
The new appointments follow the loss of alumna and former board chair Lori Holland who passed away on Nov. 26.
“Lori had a deep personal connection to our mission and the impact that education can have on people’s lives,” said former chair and current trustee James T. Ryan. “She never managed just from board meetings. She was active on campus, meeting students, meeting faculty, getting involved in school advisory boards. Lori was very accomplished academically and in her career, but my lasting memory of Lori will be her smile and the way she genuinely cared for people.”
December 15, 2020
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has created a dataset documenting coups d’état that occurred from 1945 to 2019. Coups d’état constitute an important subset of irregular transfers of political power, but currently there are a limited number of datasets available about these events. This dataset is facilitating research on post-WWII coups by compiling a comprehensive list and categorization of 943 coups, including information on the type of actor who initiated a coup (e.g. military, rebels, etc.), what the outcome of a coup event was (e.g. realized or successful coup, unrealized coup attempt, or thwarted conspiracy), and whether a deposed leader was killed, jailed, or exiled.