Opens Saturday, May 19, 7-11p:
”KLUB7 is up to something..”
KLUB7
PANDEMIC gallery, 37 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY (bt Kent and Wythe)
L train to Bedford ave, J train to Marcy ave, or Q59 bus to Broadway/Wythe
Berlin, Germany based art collective KLUB7’s new exhibition of hanging work, installations, and murals.
Opens Thurs, May 24, 6-9p:
”Woodcuts, Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes”
Nicole Eisenman
Leo Koenig Gallery, 545 W23rd St., NYC
Often cited as one of the seminal painters of her generation, Nicole Eisenman’s diverse practice embraces popular culture and encompasses many types of media and subject matter. Utilizing a wide and erudite variety of techniques culled from the history of printmaking, Eisenman approaches each of her subjects with a unique touch that adds to the sense that each of her figures, while inhabiting a common physical locale, exists in an isolated psychological space. - thru June 30
Just Opened:
”The Venerable Abject”
Nicola Samori
Ana Cristea Gallery, 521 W26th St., NYC
Nicola Samori’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Selecting portraits and still lifes from classical paintings but also sourcing random faces and images from the Web, Samori is engaged in a project about time and corrosion. Mythological and religious figures dominate Samori canvasses. - thru June 23
(Source: nuncasabemejor, via ikenbot)
One plant yields 3 clues to biofuel crops
The analysis of gene activity by researchers at Iowa State University and determination of protein structures by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences independently identified three related proteins that appear to be involved in fatty-acid metabolism. The researchers used thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) as the model plant.
The research groups then joined forces to test this hypothesis, demonstrating a role of these proteins in regulating the amounts and types of fatty acids accumulated in plants.
The researchers also showed that the action of the proteins is very sensitive to temperature and that this feature may play an important role in how plants mitigate temperature stress using fatty acids.
The discovery is published online in the journal Nature.
“This work has major implications for modulating the fatty-acid profiles in plants, which is terribly important, not only to sustainable food production and nutrition but now also to biorenewable chemicals and fuels,” says corresponding author Joseph Noel, a professor and director of the Jack H. Skirball Center for Chemical Biology and Proteomics at the Salk Institute and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
In this photo: The blue areas in this thale cress plant indicate where the fatty-acid-binding protein one gene is expressed and also correspond to regions where high fatty acids would be synthesized by the plant. (Credit: Eve Syrkin Wurtele and Micheline Ngaki)
Read more here.
(via ikenbot)
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