Temple researcher Patrick Piggot has received funding through the National Institute of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The award of $16,325 funded by the Recovery Act, is for his project "Gene Expression During Sporulation," which explores the mechanisms of disease-causing bacteria such as anthrax.

Temple University Press was awarded a five-year implementation grant of $877,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop and publish Ethnomusicology Multimedia (EM). A series of ethnomusicology books will be published with accompanying web-based media hosting platforms, a research tool that is the first of its kind.

Jin Jun Luo, assistant professor in the School of Medicine, presented at the at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine on October 7-10 in San Diego, Calif. His first presentation was titled "Is the gold standard always golden? Anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody in diagnosis of myasthenia gravis." The second was "Neurophysiologic features of the idiopathic hyperhomocysteinemia induced carpal tunnel syndrome." A third presentation is titled "A study of central conduction in patients with idiopathic hyperhomocysteinemia."

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