The research of Richard T. Sayre, a senior scientist at the New Mexico Consortium, was recently featured in an article titled Supercharging biological carbon capture and food production in the digital publication Open Access Government. Sayre’s research looks at bioengineering for improved photosynthesis in order to strengthen and magnify food production and carbon sequestration. It
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Daniel Reisenfeld, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist and New Mexico Consortium affiliate, recently published his work, A Three-dimensional Map of the Heliosphere from IBEX, in the Astrophysical Journal. The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a NASA Small Explorer mission to map the boundary of the solar system. IBEX is a small satellite (about the
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Dr. Elizabeth MacDonald and Laura Brandt, from the Aurorasaurus team, recently attended the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) 2021 virtual summer workshop (https://gemworkshop.org/) where they presented their educational tool, the 3D Printed Magnetosphere Model. The GEM 2021 Summer workshop was held as an all virtual meeting, in a similar format as VGEM 2020 but extending over
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Bette Korber, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the New Mexico Consortium, recently has published research which compares the COVID-19 virus with a very different virus HIV-1. This work published in the July issue of Cell Host & Microbe is titled, HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2: Patterns in the evolution of two pandemic pathogens.
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New Mexico Consortium scientist Wataru Nishima and colleagues recently published their work, “Full-Length Computational Model of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein and Its Implications for a Viral Membrane Fusion Mechanism“, in Viruses, an open access journal by MDPI. The SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) emerged in December 2019 and quickly spread across the world due to it’s high
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Geoff Reeves, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the New Mexico Consortium, has recently published a paper titled, Multi-Event Analysis of Plasma and Field Variations in Source of Stable Auroral Red (SAR) Arcs in Inner Magnetosphere During Non-Storm-Time Substorms, in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. The stable auroral red (SAR)
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UNM Scientists Develop A More Accessible Sensor The Smart Management of Infrastructure Laboratory (SMILab), located at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC), has announced that as a part of the Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS) project, the have developed a new strain sensor called the LEWIS-S. What are
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Specifica scientists, Frank Erasmus, Sara D’Angelo, Fortunato Ferrara, Leslie Naranjo, and Andrew Bradbury along with New Mexico Consortium scientist, André A. Teixeira have recently put out a new publication on antibody library diversity in a paper titled, A single donor is sufficient to produce a highly functional in vitro antibody library, in Communications Biology. The
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Alisha Vira, a student scientist at the New Mexico Consortium, along with colleagues Brian Larsen, Ruth Skoug, and Philip Fernandes, recently published their work, Bayesian Model for HOPE Mass Spectrometers on Van Allen Probes, in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The ion composition and time variation of space plasmas are important to understand as it
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Anna Llobet Megias Presents at American Physical Society Meeting Anna Llobet Megias, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist and New Mexico Consortium affiliate, presents at the APS April Meeting, held Saturday–Tuesday, April 17–20, 2021. The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization that has the goal of advancing the knowledge of physics.
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