Friday, February 08, 2008

The Heroic Generation





The Heroic Generation.

At the cutting edge of Du Avant Garde, is that a civilization's development rest solely on the socio - cultural processes of how it nurtures it's youth. Thus is should be to everyone surprise that something happened previous to the year of 2000. What has happen, is the development of The Heroic Generation of American youth who are now entering the 16 to 18 years of age, as of June, 2006.
Why?

The Critical aspect of this is based on the clear observation that as the American civilization has became more complex, there has been increasing equal complex burdens of sociocultrual and sociopolitical adaptions being made in childrearing techniques by both the parents and children of each family since about 1982 till the present. The forms of these adaptations have magnified the self - perceptions of diversity of the emerging core of youth even more, than their parents own development in their own childhoods'; the present impetus of greater self - discoveries as a result.

The newer aspect....
Then the physical impact of hours and hours being spent at home computers and access to the Internet by children as early as 2 1/2 has likewise created further expansion of the depth of the child's development of their audio and visual perceptions, increasing their range of needed additional information, and emotional needs during all the years afterwards; their growing dependencies upon the Internet.

As of now:
Their resulting increased visual and intellect range [ what is still not yet been measure by present early childhood reseachers - conclusively, and maybe by their present skill research skills unmeasureable ] is far different than their parents. This component has likewise appeared in experiences of increasing fustrations in their dealings and learning with their primary and secondary school teachers - who in most instances are unaware of their emerging student traits. This is the additional impact of computer usage and its ability to influence their own innate drives - while most of their parents being totally unaware. Furthermore, those who families have home acccess to the Internet have triggered a unique struggle for this generation of Internet users to find common idenity; this has created the basis for a different more complex cultural society to emerge within America's mulit - cultural mosaic.

Most amazing is the increasing and voluntary, they are not being forced to commit in using the Internet by their parents, interdiction of the internet experiences into radicalizing their abstractual intellegence, and near fantasy visual ranges in conjunction with the mental impacted sociocultural sphere of influences of present early childhood ( per - 12s ) sensory developments by their parent's sociocultural, socioeconomic, and sociospiritual childrearing efforts [ What the parents are passing on and the advance technique they likewise have used from the radical 1970's. ]. Moreover, their developmental causal extrapolations of rapid access and installation of competant and more highly advanced usage of computer soft wear technologies, and internet prowless has impacted new adaptations after 12 YO ( and at a critical developmental stage Piget/Erickson); thereby creating new unkown emotional structures which has their further generated biological resultant imprints on this population's innate drives. There is no research known within this area either.

Part conclusion...

" Similar to design technology functions invested in computer advance technologies and rapid streaming of mass information within the growing massive information insourcing spiders of the Internet ( here before never used by previous generations ) have had a radical impact which are largely the additional unknowns confronted by todays parents and unfortunately and similarly by present University educators as well. They, " you " [ if " you " fall into this generation ] are now the outsourcing resultants"
Now, historically, now, this process has created new emotional and intellectual structures and have been observed to be firmly inserted into this generations' overall personality traits which is generated by every single successful experience during time durations [ after an unknown quanity of time expended ] related computer access obtained by the child user. In dealing with present forms of how children are integrated into society this has created a separate intellect, nonetheless, and thus forming new resultant and yet unkown " impacted innate intellectual drives which are increasingly creating emotional technocentered more adpated " new corridors."

Presently this has been recently touched on, largely in their emerging emotional fields, by Presidential Canidate Barack Obama. His campaign use of the Internet and who, the users, he has been getting his political message to, and likewise his contributions from.

Part conclusion ....
Simply the causal resultant of increased usage and depth of range of their nervous systems has result in a different intellectual population.

It is what is contained within in this new corridor is their main future focus of unity. How internet experiences have impacted their own personal, and individual bio - spheres, and the resultant increased locations and more diverse usage of their brain stimulus is still even the greater unknown - even to themselves.

Thus and unlike Gertude Stein quote about the " Lost Generation " We now have the " Heroic Generation. " In a historic review we have had Heroic Generations born in 1745, 1832, 1876, 1919, 1946, and then 1982.

What is even more surprising is that they have caught upon certain indenity ethos which is in its initial stages of social and cultural evolution - development; and are just now being defined by themselves, while others outsiders are in the dark. Moreover, the socio-spirituality of this genertion is their special gifts.

The result in art, music, and others is just now appearing at their other edges....

This is leading us to the....

The impact of which will be felt culturally around the year 2016. Politically is the greater unknown, can Barack Obama tap into it? No one knows...


Pax Fidelis!

Monday, January 28, 2008

NCLT SEMINAR SERIES 2008 @ Cornell University

Date: Thursday, April 3, 2008


The next generation of scientists will need to have a broad base of skills; no individual with training in a single discipline will solve any of the coming challenges that we face. Our group looks at a broad range of problems and we collectively design solutions working in collaboration with groups through the university, academia and industry. We also seek solutions that have some practical endpoint, to see that our work will some day be useful. And we work with students of all ages, from the very young to the very old.


C U R R E N T R E S E A R C H


Two areas currently attract our attention. In close collaboration with the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research we are pursuing the development of therapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer. To reach this goal we have just completed the construction of a GMP Bioproduction Facility, the only one in existence in an academic setting in the U.S. We are also applying the tools and the processes of nanofabrication to create a new generation of sensors and other tiny devices.

I N T E R E S T S / W O R K I N P R O G R E S S


What we do:
Development and implement processes for the recombinant production of therapeutic proteins
Explore the use of nanoscale materials inspired by biological systems.
Design and create novel biosensors.
Create hands-on science for young students and engage them in thinking about how cool it is to be a scientist.


E D U C A T I O N


B.S., Microbiology, Kansas State University M.S., Food Science, Rutgers University Ph.D., Food Science, Rutgers University

S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S


Joosten, C.E., Cohen, L.S., Ritter, G, Batt, C.A. and Shuler, M.L. (2004) Glycosylation profiles of the human colorectal cancer A33 antigen naturally expressed in the human colorectal cancer cell line SW1222 and expressed as recombinant protein in different insect cell lines. Biotechnol. Prog. 20:1273-1279.
Damasceno, L.M., Pla, I., Chang, H.J., Cohen, L., Ritter, G., Old L.J., Batt. C.A. (2004) An optimized fermentation process for high-level production of a single-chain Fv antibody fragment in Pichia pastoris. Protein Expr. Purif. 37:18-26.
Mark S.S., Sandhyarani, N., Zhu, C., Campagnolo, C., Batt C.A. (2004) Dendrimer-functionalized self-assembled monolayers as a surface plasmon resonance sensor surface. Langmuir. 20:6808-6817.
Campagnolo, C., Meyers, K.J., Ryan, T, Atkinson, R.C., Chen, Y-T., Scanlan, M.J., Ritter, G., Old, L.J. and Batt. C.A. (2004) Real-time label-free monitoring of tumor antigen and serum antibody interactions. J. Biochem. Biophy. Meth. 61: 283-298.
Niamsiri, N., Delamarre, S.C., Kim, Y.R. and Batt, C.A. (2004) Engineering of chimeric class II polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70:6789-6799.
Shah, D., Maiti, P., Gunn, E., Schmidt, D.F., Jiang, D.D., Batt, C.A. and Giannelis, E.P. (2004) Dramatic enhancements in toughness of polyvinylidene fluoride nanocomposites via nanoclay-directed crystal structure and morphology. Adv. Mater. 16: 1173-1177.
Tyner, K.M., Roberson, M.S., Berghorn, K.A. Li, L., Gilmour, R.F., Batt, C.A. and Giannelis, E.P. (2004) Intercalation, delivery, and expression of the gene encoding green fluorescence protein utilizing nanobiohybrids. J. Control. Release 100: 399-409.
Shah, D., Maiti, P., Jiang, D.D., Batt, C.A. and Giannelis, E.P. (2005) Effect of nanoparticle mobility on toughness of polymer composites. Adv. Material. 17: 525-528.
Paik, H-J., Kim, Y.R., Orth, R.N., Ober, C.K., Coates, G.W. and Batt, C.A. (2005) End functionalization of poly (3-hyrdroxybutyrate) via genetic engineering for solid surface modification. Chem. Commun. 15: 1956-58.
Stelick, S.J., Alger, W.H., Laufer, J.S., Waldron, AM., and Batt, C.A. (2005) Hands-on classroom photolithography laboratory to explore nanotechnology J. Chem. Educ. 82: 1361-1364.
Delamarre, S.C., Chang, H-Y and Batt, C.A. (2005) Identification and characterization of two polyhydroxyalkanoate biosynthesis loci in Pseudomonas sp. Strain 3Y2. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 69 293-303.
Cady, N.C., Stelick, S., Kunnavakkam, M.V. and Batt, C.A. (2005) Real-time PCR detection of Listeria monocytogenes using an integrated microFLUIDICS platform. Sens. Actuators. B 107, 332-341.
Delamarre, S.C. and Batt, C.A. (2005) Comparative study of promoters for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates in recombinant strains of Wautersia eutropha. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol.2006 Aug;71 (5):668-79. Epub 2005 Dec 15.
Kim, Y-R., Paik, H-j., Ober, C.K., Coates, G.W., Mark, S.S., Ryan, T.E. and Batt, C.A. (2006) Real-time analysis of enzymatic surface initiated polymerization using surface plasmon resonance (SPR). Macromol. Biosci. 6: 145-152.
Bhatnagar, P., Mark, S.S., Kim, I., Chen, H., Schmidt, B., Lipson, M. and Batt, C.A. (2005) Dendrimer-scaffold-based electron-beam patterning of biomolecules. Adv. Material. 18 315-319. Mark, S.S., Bergkvist, M., Yang, X., Teixeira, L.M., Bhatnagar, P., Angert, E.R. and Batt, C.A. (2006) Bionanofabrication of metallic and semiconductor nanoparticles arrays using S-layer protein lattices with different lateral spacings. Langmuir.2006 Apr 11;22(8):3763-3774.
Pla, I.A., Damasceno, L.M., Vannelli, T., Ritter, G., Batt, C.A. and Shuler, M.L. (2006) Evaluation of Mut+ and MutS Pichia pastoris phenotypes for high level extracellular scFv expression under feedback control of the methanol concentration. Biotechnol. Prog.2006 May-June;22(3):881-888.
Waldron, A.M., Spencer, D. and Batt, C.A. (2006) The current state of public understanding of nanotechnology. J. Nanoparticle Res.8, 569-575.
Cady, N.C., Strickland, A.D. and Batt, C.A. (2006) Optimized linkage and quenching strategies for quantum dot molecular beacon. Mol. Cell. Probes;21(2):116-24.
Damasceno, L.M., Anderson, K.A., Ritter, G., Cregg, J.M., Old, L.J. and Batt, C.A. (2006) Cooverexpression of chaperones for enhanced secretion of a single-chain antibody fragment in Pichia pastoris. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. DOI 10.1007/s00253-006-0652-7. 74(2): 381-389.