The central paradigm of the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems project is that variability in estuarine ecosystem processes is primarily mediated by the mixture of fresh and salt water flows across the coastal landscape. The GCE project is investigating the underlying mechanisms by which proximity of marshes to upland habitat drives ecosystem change along lateral gradients in the intertidal zone. Our a...

Dr. Larry Burd is the Director, North Dakota Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. He has worked in the fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) field since the mid-1980s and has published extensively in this area, most recently on the use of community screening for detecting FAS. He is also part of the...

Resistance exercise load does not determine training-mediated hypertrophic gains in young men 1 Cameron J. Mitchell, Tyler A. Churchward-Venne, Daniel D.W. West, Nicholas A. Burd, Leigh 2 Breen, Steven K. Baker, Stuart M. Phillips 3 Exercise Metabolism Research Group, Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, 4 ON, Canada 5 Department of Neurology and Medicine, McMaster Universi...

salm ibn amr khasir the first abbasid poet born in basra.he was a pupil and narrator of the poet bashar ibn burd. he acquired his nickname (the loser),when he sold a copy of the quran in exchange for a book of verse; other explanations are also given. when young,he moved to baghdad and became a panegyrist of the ‘abbasid caliphs,the barmakids, in especial fadl barmaki,and other leading persons....

Burd NA, Tang JE, Moore DR, Phillips SM. Exercise training and protein metabolism: influences of contraction, protein intake, and sex-based differences. J Appl Physiol 106: 1692–1701, 2009. First published November 26, 2008; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.91351.2008.—Muscle contraction during exercise, whether resistive or endurance in nature, has profound affects on muscle protein turnover that can ...

We recently introduced a model that predicts the degree to which a plant's lifetime seed production may be constrained by unpredictable shortfalls of pollen receipt ("pollen limitation"). Burd's comment in this issue criticized our analysis, first by arguing that the empirical literature documents much higher levels of pollen limitation than our model predicts and then suggesting that the appar...

To understand the range of possible and probable A1 functions in pre-mRNA biogenesis, it is important that we quantify the relative ability (or inability) of A1 to bind high affinity RNA target sequences and/or structures. Using a fluorescence competition assay we have determined apparent binding affinities for a wide range of 20mer oligos containing putative and possible A1 targets including t...

TO THE EDITOR: We appreciate Burd et al. (1) providing an interesting perspective on whether anabolic resistance contributes to age-associated muscle wasting. In our opinion this perspective illustrates the need to consider alternative assessments of muscle protein turnover. The authors state that, “Such a gradual decline in muscle mass would likely be too small to detect using contemporary sta...