ICBR’s Alberto Riva and MBI look to thwart the effects of time and aging on the brain
Alberto Riva assisted the McKnight Brain Institute in a big methylation study over the past year. The study was published in the Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience journal. The purpose was to determine whether there is a relationship between the decline of cognitive function with aging and epigenetic changes in neurons. The study was performed on rats using a combination of whole-genome... Read More
ICBR’s Bill Farmerie and Alberto Riva contribute to the most cited paper in ISME Journal history
Alberto Riva and Bill Farmerie were co-authors (Eric Triplett was the senior author) on a paper, Pyrosequencing enumerates and contrasts soil microbial diversity (2007). Tripplett’s lab conceived and executed the work. ICBR did the sequencing, and Alberto was responsible for much of the data analysis. This past April, the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal (ISME) recognized... Read More