JUAMI, THE JOINT UNDERTAKING FOR AN AFRICAN MATERIALS INSTITUTE: BUILDING MATERIALS SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS AND CAPABILITIES BETWEEN CONTINENTS

JUAMI, the joint undertaking for an African materials institute, is a project to build collaborations and materials research capabilities between PhD researchers in Africa, the United States, and the world.Focusing on research-active universities in the East African countries of Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda, the effort has run a series of s

Losses of forest cover, biodiversity, agricultural productivity, and ecosystem services in the Himalayan mountain region are interlinked problems and threats to the sustainable livelihoods of 115 x 106 mountain people as well as the inhabitants of the adjoining Indo-gangetic plains.Until the 1970s, environmental conservation, food security, and rur

The progressive deterioration of the neuromuscular axis is typically observed in degenerative conditions of the lower motor neurons, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).Neurodegeneration in this disease is associated with systemic metabolic perturbations, including hypermetabolism and dyslipidemia.Our previous gene profiling studies on ALS

Eggplant is a vegetable crop with high economic value that is cultivated worldwide.The dwarf mutant is an important germplasm material that has been extensively used in crop breeding.However, no eggplant dwarf mutants have been reported, and little is known regarding the genes responsible for dwarfism in eggplant.In this study, we isolated an eggpl