Miriam Susskind Borenstein

Miriam B. Goodman

Miriam B. Goodman is an Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. Her lab is a collection of people with diverse training and a shared interest in understanding how sensation works. Her first exposure to scientific research was as a high school student in Bethesda, MD, when she wrote custom scientific software at NIH. After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in...

Mechanosensation * Miriam

Wild C. elegans and other nematodes live in dirt and eat bacteria, relying on mechanoreceptor neurons (MRNs) to detect collisions with soil particles and other animals as well as forces generated by their own movement. MRNs may also help animals detect bacterial food sources. Hermaphrodites and males have 22 putative MRNs; males have an additional 46 MRNs, most, if not all of which are needed f...

Fischler-Susskind holographic cosmology revisited

When Fischler and Susskind proposed a holographic prescription based on the Particle Horizon, they found that spatially closed cosmological models do not verify it due to the apparently unavoidable recontraction of the Particle Horizon area. In this article, after a short review of their original work, we expose graphically and analytically that spatially closed cosmological models can avoid th...

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Spectrum Results with Kogut-Susskind Quarks

The Kogut-Susskind formulation of lattice fermions, often called “staggered fermions”, has long been a popular formulation for QCD simulations including dynamical quarks. The basic reason for this is the single remaining exact chiral symmetry, which is sufficient to protect the quark mass from additive renormalization. From a practical viewpoint, an important consequence is a lower limit on the...