Issue 128 April Fool’s, Y’all!

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A NEWSLETTER OF THE COMMUNITY What’s Inside? Click the “cherry blossom” icons to jump to the page! Louise Pearce B y S u s a n R u s s o P.4 Nobel Prizes P.5 B y Jo s e p h L u n a

Neuroscience Night B y A i l e e n M a r s h a l l P.6

Culture Corner Sudden Death: A Novel P.7 B y B e r n i e L a n g s NYSOF Interview Ian Brown P.8 B y G ua da l u p e A s t o r g a

Top Left: Hydroponic research in Epcot Center, Orland/Antony Pranata,CC. Top Crossword Puzzle Rigt: Hydroponics/Frank Fox, CC. Bottom panels: Our Windowfarms Project Supreme Effort P.9 Growing vegetables in small spaces B y G e o r g e B a r a n y & F r i e n d s G ua da l u p e A s t o r g a Life on a Roll Snow Mountains P.10 One of today’s global issues concerns the alternatives to intensive crop farming. B y E l o d i e Pau w e l s supply of fresh food to people in cities. Differentprojects have taken over roof- While the carbon footprint for transport- tops and unused spaces in City, ing fruits and vegetables from the areas not only to grow fresh vegetables for dis- where they are produced, to the consum- tribution in the local community, but also ers’ tables can reach high levels for longer to offer a sustainable model for urban ag- distances, local production and consump- riculture in open spaces. tion have several advantages. A number Other interesting alternatives involve of new initiatives make it possible to take hydroponic cultures, which offer a very advantage of urban spaces to grow fresh efficient way to grow different types of vegetables in your own city or apartment. organic plants with no need of big spac- In cities where the space is dominated es. In recent years, several hydroponic by concrete construction, urban agricul- techniques have exploded and evolved in ture has shed new light into public and a plethora of varieties developed by en- private spaces, promoting community in- teractions and the development of organic CONTINUED TO P.2 LUIS DE NAVAS / More on Page 3 2 Editorial Board EDITORIAL BOARD

Jim Keller Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor Aileen Marshall Assistant Copy Editing Manager Susan Russo Copy Editor, Distribution Qiong Wang Copy Editor, Webmaster, Public Relations Manager Nan Pang Production Designer Peng Kate Gao Copy Editor selections.rockefeller.edu [email protected] Fig 1. Left panel: Hydrosock Version/Jim Flavin. Right panel: Hydroponics principle/iamozone, CC

CONTINUED FROM P.1 Flavin (Fig. 1, left panel). This handy design • Seeds is the easiest version of hydroponics; it • Nutrients for hydroponics ($10- thusiastic farmers who have openly shared does not need an air pump to oxygenate 30, needed to buy only once) their knowledge on the internet, mak- the water, nor expensive or specialized ing videos with detailed tutorials and in- materials. The roots get oxygen as the Check all the details in this instructive structions for beginners and experienced water level decreases in the reservoir. The video tutorial and look further on Jim’s farmers. Hydroponics are not expensive or principle is shown in Fig. 1 right panel. website. complicated, can be started at any time of I encourage you to make this simple Another easy alternative is to consume the year, and you can control what you eat. hydroponic system at home for high yields local products provided by Community In an example of these collaborative of vegetable production and little cost. Supported Agriculture (CSA), a popular initiatives, also born in , This is the proper time of the year to start way to buy local, seasonal food directly hydroponic vertical gardens are designed if you want to harvest delicious vegetables from farmers. for our apartment windows, and people for this summer. These farming alternatives have opened around the world have shared their experi- You will just need: a whole world of possibilities for culturing ences to create new innovative and esthet- in confined urban spaces. At a critical mo- ic designs. You will need a bit of creativity • Empty plastic 1 gal milk bottle ment, where food safety is constantly men- and enthusiasm to make this project in • 1 sock aced by the extensive use of pesticides, and your apartment, but it is certainly worth it. • Cable ties soil productivity is menaced by droughts A more convenient and simpler • Aluminum foil and fertilizer overuse, an open road to alternative to get started with hydroponics • Growing medium starter for your self-sustainability is ahead. We can start in your own apartment at minimal cost is seeds, preferably those made out of today making fruitful use of our cities and the Hydrosock Version, proposed by Jim coco (less than $1 each). spaces. Finding Spring Photos by Luis De Navas

3 Louise Pearce – An Extraordinary Woman of Medicine

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In 1913, the Rockefeller Institute appointed University, and was awarded her M.D. from in the Belgian Congo, where she worked in a its first woman researcher, Louise Pearce, the School of local hospital; and her laboratory to test the M.D., who worked as an assistant to Simon Medicine, specializing in pathology, in 1912. drug tryparsamide in human trials, saving Flexner. Pearce was promoted to Associate While at Rockefeller, Pearce worked many of the lives of syphilitic patients and Member in 1923, and continued in this posi- closely with Wade Hampton Brown, a pa- patients with sleeping sickness, conditions tion until 1951, when she became President thologist, chemist Walter Jacobs, and im- which had previously caused almost certain of the Woman’s fatalities. After re- Medical College turning to the In- of Pennsylvania. stitute, Pearce and During her career, Brown added can- Pearce attained cer experiments many firsts, includ- in animal models, ing her 1915 election discovering, in rab- as the first woman bits, the malignant member of the epithelial tumor American Society of the scrotum, for Pharmacology named the Brown- and Experimental Pearce Carcinoma. Therapeutics (AS- Pearce resided PET); the second in Greenwich Vil- member wasn’t lage, sharing her elected until 1929. apartment with Also, Pearce had Sara Josephine affiliations with Baker, another the New York In- physician, and the firmary for Wom- novelist Ida A.R. en and Children Wylie (some of (1921); the General whose books were Advisory Council made into films.) of the American All three women Social Hygiene As- were active in a sociation (1925); the “radical feminist” National Research luncheon discus- Council (1931); and sion club, Hetero- was elected Direc- doxy. In 1932, they tor of the Associa- moved to Trevanna tion of University Farm in Skill- Women in 1945. In man, New Jersey. 1921, Pearce was Pearce commuted elected to member- to Rockefeller, ship in the Belgian until she became Society of Tropical President of the Medicine, and re- Woman’s Hospi- ceived the Order of tal of Philadelphia the Crown of Bel- (founded in 1861). gium, and in 1931 Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives During her she was appointed career, Pearce re- Visiting Professor ceived honorary of Syphilology at Peiping Union Medical munologist Michael Hiedelberger. Their doctorates from Wilson College (Penn- College in China. first endeavors, organized by , sylvania), Beaver College (Pennsylvania), Born in Winchester, Massachusetts, her were experiments in the treatment of syphi- (New York), and Bucknell family moved to Los Angeles, where she at- lis, using arsenic derivatives made by Pearce University (Pennsylvania). Louise Pearce’s tended the Girls Collegiate School.She went and Brown in animal models. Their work papers can be found in the Rockefeller Ar- on to receive her Bachelor’s degree in physi- was published in the Journal of Experimen- chives, the College of ology and histology at in tal Medicine in 1919. Soon after, the Rock- Medicine Archives, and the Smithsonian In- 1907. Pearce continued her studies at Boston efeller Institute sent Pearce to Léopoldville stitution Archives. 4 Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes Part XVII: Torsten Wiesel, 1981 Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Jo s e p h L u n a In the late 1950’s, two scientists sat with a cat that these cells did not signal absolute levels of ally computed and created in the brain. In in a darkened room and flicked on a projector light to the brain, but rather they transmitted other words, it is an illusion. An important screen. For this particular movie night with the contrast information between light and demonstration of this idea came from Hubel kitty, the scientists showed a series of simple dark. Small spots of light could activate reti- and Wiesel a few years later. By depriving one images to the cat, and between each one they nal neurons, whereas flooding the eye with eye of a newborn kitten of light, while leaving waited for the cat to respond. Nearly all cat light didn’t do so. This finding largely con- the other alone, they observed that the kit- owners, myself included, have probably per- firmed in a mammal what a fellow soon-to- ten could become blind in the deprived eye, formed a variant of this basic experiment, be Hopkins faculty member (and subject of but not because there was something wrong whether with a treat or a feathery toy, to get this series) H. Keffer Hartline had seen while with the actual eye. Instead they found that hold of a cat’s finicky attention, or to divert it measuring the eye of the horseshoe crab over the region in the visual cortex responsible for from a precarious vase or an exposed ankle. a decade earlier. Like Hartline, Kuffler could that eye had failed to develop. Depriving an But the two scientists, David Hubel and Tor- conclude that the “raw data” from light was adult eye of light for the same amount of time sten Wiesel, first at Johns Hopkins and then at passed to the brain as a code that essentially never caused blindness. Hubel and Wiesel Harvard, were after something much deeper. said, “this part is dark and this part is light”, thus defined a “critical window” in brain de- They wanted the cat to tell them what it saw. but what happened after the retina was a mys- velopment during which neural connections And magically enough, they had surgically tery. present at birth could be modified or even created a talking cat: an electrode was insert- This is where Hubel and Weisel jumped lost if deprived of their essential stimulus. ed into the visual cortex of the anesthetized in. Both had joined Kuffler’s lab at Hopkins This work directly influenced the improved cat’s head and set up to record from a tiny to explore vision in the cat, picking up where treatment of children born with cataracts and patch of the brain (rest assured the cat was Kuffler left off and using a technique that- en other correctable eye conditions by highlight- fine after the experiment). By showing dif- abled recording from single cells in the brain. ing the sense of urgency defined by the criti- ferent images to this conked-out kitty, Hubel They started by repeating Kuffler’s observa- cal window. and Weisel aimed to find the specific stimu- tion, but this time measuring from the next It is somewhat hard to overstate how lus that excited the area they were recording stop in the brain after the retina, a relay sta- Hubel and Wiesel’s’ findings have shaped our from, be it a picture of a stationary dot or a tion known as the lateral geniculate nucleus perception of the brain as an exquisitely com- simple line moving across the screen. If they (LGN). Here they found a similar principle plex computer that creates the world around succeeded at finding the right stimulus, they at work: the same small spots of light that us. But along with a bit of feline help, this is would hear the characteristic rat-tat-tat of a activated the retina could be measured in the exactly what they did. neuron firing. In other words, a tiny and spe- LGN. But when they moved onto the next and cific part of the cat’s brain would seem to be most complex stop in the cat’s visual cortex, saying “yup, that’s a line right there.” small spots of light did not cause the neurons Natural Selections How we perceive the outside world has there to fire. Instead, the neurons in one spot been a central human question for millennia, would only fire if the cat saw a very particular wants your ART! underwriting large swathes of philosophy, abstraction of light, such as a line moving left and later, psychology and . In or a box moving right. They discovered that Whether you can’t stop drawing while the first half of the 20th century, technological cortical neurons weren’t really responding waiting for the bus, or taking a walk developments aimed at measuring the elec- to light anymore but an abstract feature of around the city; if photography is your trical activity of a stimulated neuron in the that light. Moreover, a cortical neuron could passion, or if you’re more of a painter, brain yielded a concrete path to explore how be immensely precise in the type of stimu- this is your chance to share your art. organisms perceive their surroundings. Of lus that would activate it, such as a line at a the five most obvious senses, studying vision 30-degree angle, but not 90 degrees. By tak- Beginning in 2016, Natural Selections seemed particularly attractive since the input ing measurements at different points of the will publish a picture of the art was physically always the same: photons. And cat’s visual cortex and looking for a stimulus we receive every month. To take yet photons could be arranged in wildly com- that corresponded to each particular position, advantage of this opportunity, email plex patterns to signal, in the case of a cat, the Hubel and Wiesel were able to map the pat- us your work with a title, a brief difference between a mouse and a shampoo tern selectivity of the cells in this region. It description, and your name. We’ll bottle. How did light get transformed when was a first and stirring demonstration of what make sure to include it in a future issue. it hit the eye into something “recognizable”? visual perception really looks like: after light We hope to receive several images to This was a motivating question for a gen- enters the eyes, the signal that makes it to the create an open space for art! eration of scientists in the Department of visual cortex has been broken down into a Physiology at Johns Hopkins Medical School constellation of lines, constituent shapes, and We’ll be delighted to receive your in the middle of the 20th century. And one other features each computed at distinct loca- artwork, please email hi-res image or such scientist was a young faculty member tions, to yield a full picture. vector files to: named Stephen Kuffler, who, in 1948, record- It was a truly profound discovery, for it [email protected] ed from single cells in the cat retina and found implied that visual perception is quite liter- 5 Neuroscience Night A i l e e n M a r s h a l l

March 14 through the 20 was National through a stage when they need a care- tary school. Memories are formed in the Brain Awareness Week. In honor of that, giver to survive. She told us how the hu- hippocampus, which then sends those the Rockefeller University’s Science and man’s infant brain is geared toward bond- memories to long-term storage. There is a Media Group sponsored an event called ing with its caregiver, in order to get what complex chemical reaction that happens Neuroscience Night, run by the organiza- it needs. In rats there is a sensitive period, when we make a memory, involving neu- tion KnowScience. The event consisted of the first nine days after birth, when bond- rotransmitters crossing synapses between several talks by local scientists about their ing is established. In humans, attachment neurons and the synthesis of a protein. Re- fascinating research on the brain. The top- starts in the womb, where the fetus learns trieving a memory makes it stronger. She ics ranged from the infant brain to the ad- the mother’s scent and voice. And this also talked about experiments that were dicted brain. attachment is bi-directional, oxytocin is done to see if memory could be effected Brain Awareness Week has been pre- released during skin to skin contact, en- by drugs. Subjects who had a phobia to sented every March by the Dana Founda- forcing the bond of both caregiver and in- spiders were given a drug that blocks the tion for twenty years. The foundation is fant. The caregiver can even regulate the protein immediately after exposure to a a non-profit that promotes neuroscience infant’s brain. In rats, the amygdala kicks spider. At their next exposure the follow- research by grants, publications and edu- in after ten days, which is responsible for ing week, subjects did not feel afraid. cation; made up of more than 350 neu- fear. Perry’s experiments have shown that The last talk was given by our own roscientists, including some Noble lau- the mother’s presence can block the fear Derek Simon, a postdoctoral fellow in reates. They publish the online journal response in rat pups. the Kreek lab. He spoke about how addic- Cerebrum. They also provide materials The next speaker was Bianca Jones- tion works in the brain. It turns out that for organizations and groups to put on Marlin, a postdoctoral researcher from addiction has a similar mechanism, no events for Brian Awareness week. Besides . Her topic was Love matter if the substance is anything from the Rockefeller University, many New and the Brain. She told us that there is a caffeine to illegal narcotics. Long-term York City institutes hosted seminars and chemical reaction behind love, no matter additions actually cause changes in the exhibits, including Columbia University, if it’s romantic, familial, or platonic. It is brain. Drugs change how neurons fire. All Mount Sinai, New York University, and also oxytocin that is released during eye addictive drugs cause a rise in dopamine, the Greater New York City Chapter of the contact with a loved one. Oxytocin effects which also effects the reward center. The Society for Neuroscience. the reward center of the brain. Experi- same reaction happens during behavioral Rockefeller’s Neuroscience Night was ments have shown that oxytocin is also addictions like gambling. The body tries organized by KnowScience, which is a released when one has eye contact with to block dopamine, to return the level non-profit science advocacy and educa- one’s dog. This hormone works in the left to normal. In long-term addictions, the tional organization founded and headed hearing center of the brain. Jones-Marlin’s body has compensated so much that do- by Rockefeller’s own Dr. Simona Giunta. experiments with mice have shown that pamine levels drop below normal, leaving They run events to improve the awareness mice will retrieve their pups back to the one feeling worse. Derek showed images and understanding of science among the nest when they hear them cry. But a vir- of a normal and an addict’s brain to dem- public, particularly adults. gin female in the cage will not retrieve the onstrate the physical differences. Inter- The first speaker at the Neuroscience pup. estingly enough, while talking about the Night was Rosemarie Perry, a postdoctor- Loren DeVito, a science and medi- mechanism of methadone, he mentioned al research scientist from New York Uni- cal writer, spoke about memory. She how it had been developed here at Rock- versity. She spoke about the infant brain. explained how there are three kinds of efeller in the 1940s. It turns out that babies are a lot smarter memory. Episodic memory is when we The next KnowScience event is entitled than we give them credit for. They learn recall events in our life. Motor memory “Imagine a World Without AIDS”. It will a lot in their first year. The infant brain is lets us learn how to ride a bike. And it is be on April 7 at the Kips Bay library. Go to capable of learning several different lan- semantic memory used when we memo- knowscience.org to learn more about their guages. Like many animals, humans go rized the multiplication tables in elemen- fascinating and enjoyable events.

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6 Culture Corner Book Review: Sudden Death: A Novel, by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer

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I often view the study of European history as a lesson in arbitrarily defined epochs popu- lated by individuals lost in a haze of their own coping mechanisms, against the ingrained, systematic, and what they felt at the time to be wholly justified violence surrounding them. Future generations may view our current times much in the same way. A new book Sudden Death: A Novel, by the Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue (now liv- ing in New York City) and translated by Na- tasha Wimmer, attempts to place the events of the Counter Reformation in a fictionalized setting, centering around a tennis match be- tween the famous Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (called “Caravaggio”; 1571-1610) and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo. That both figures are so hungover that they can’t recall the events of the prior evening that has led to their vicious “dueling” on the court, is a great running joke through- out the book. The historical Caravaggio is well-known as having been a violent brawler and yes, he played tennis. It is widely believed that it was an argument over a tennis match that led him to murdering Ranuccio Tomas- soni. The subsequent threat of punishment by the authorities set off the chain of events lead- ing to the artist’s own demise. The Calling of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio located at San Luigi dei Francesi in Sudden Death, graced with short chap- Rome (photo: Wikipedia) ters, has a wider sweep than the tennis match, bringing in far-flung plots that strangely his paintings in person, I found it interest- life in his masterworks. By looking carefully eventually coalesce. Many of them center on ing to see how a novel makes him come alive, at a painting by him, you can almost feel and the slightly earlier time of the conquest of if just in the imagination of a writer such as experience the texture of his times. Mexico by Hernán Cortés. He is fictionalized Enrigue. I could have lived without some of Enrigue steps outside of his novel at times as completely oblivious to the carnage he has the more scatological details and the sections to ask his reader and himself just what it is left in his wake and later as having no sense of describing the artist’s sexual proclivities, but he is writing. I welcomed these interruptions just how barbaric his land-grab in the name the battling Lombard in Sudden Death neatly since I found myself wondering the same of Spain has been. Also appearing in the novel coincides with what I’ve imagined Caravag- thing. His chapters describing the art cre- are Galileo and a host of other well-known gio to have been like as a real person. ated by a Mexican craftsman, who is taking personalities from the time of Caravaggio. Baroque painters such as Caravaggio the newly learned motifs of Christianity and Most amusing is the tracing back of the ball and the Italian artists of the period such as weaving them into magical arts of his own, utilized in the tennis match, made from the Il Guercino, Guido Reni and painters in the were amongst the most beautiful passages packed hair of the executed second wife of Carracci family, were making one last gasp of the book. Enrigue goes to great lengths to King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn. That human for religious art after the strange and slight- paint for his readers the ethereal beauty of the or horsehair or wool were used at the time ly disastrous post-Michelangelo period of conquered Mexican’s work. He brings them to make tennis balls is noted by Enrigue in Mannerism. Caravaggio’s canvases include to life for readers who have never seen such brief interludes, presenting source documents wide areas of complete darkness and sparse objects, contrasting with the well-known on the evolution of the game of tennis. This, settings often populated by stark portraits, oeuvre of Caravaggio. In the long run, the along with countless other diversions, makes drawn from the crowd of ruffians he associ- book presents a case study of different worlds Sudden Death a truly interesting and enjoy- ated himself with. At the time, the griminess uniting amongst endemic violence in the pur- able read. in his works were a source of shock, yet his suit of art. That is exactly what Sudden Death Caravaggio is a fascinating figure in art genius was always undeniable. Caravaggio achieves as well, a work of thought-provoking history. Having read nonfiction accounts of represents the underbelly of Rome that was prose rising from the ashes of an infamous his life and work and having seen much of never hidden, and which comes very much to human past. 7 New York State of Mind This month Natural Selections interviews Ian Brown, Group Leader, Comparative Bioscience Center

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How long have you been living in the New with very different personalities. I’ve no- York area? ticed it’s easy to identify people from NYC I’ve been living here for 36 years. when they are outside, because they have more character and are more confident. Where do you currently live? Which is your favorite neighborhood? If you could change one thing about NYC, I currently live in Brooklyn, and my favorite what would that be? neighborhood is Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, it I would shut it down for a couple of hours, is a quite area, with nice parks. there are so many things going on from Sunday to Sunday, people are always going What do you think is the most overrated somewhere, I would just stop everybody thing in the city? And underrated? from driving and walking and tell them: I think the most overrated is the conve- “relax”. nience of the city, and the most underrated is the niceness of the people, many times it What is your favorite weekend activity in is presumed that they are tough or intimi- NYC? dating, but I think people here are very nice. I like the parks, specifically Central Park, you find all kind of personalities and cultures. If What do you miss most when you are out the weather is nice, or if it’s snowing, I like of town? to go there to relax, enjoy or make [play] The activity of the city, there’s always some- sports. It is a beautiful place. thing going on. Photo Courtesy of Ian Brown What is the most memorable experience If you could live anywhere else, where Has anything (negative or positive) you have had in NYC? might that be? changed about you since you became one Unfortunately, I’ll have to say when the Given that I’m a New Yorker, I like the coun- of us “New Yorkers”? World Trade Center fell, that was big here, it tryside, the calm and the beach. But if I have I would say positive, as this Frank Sina- brought a big change and I had never seen to choose a city it would be Paris, because is tra song says “if you make it here you can such devastation in the city and people. not as crazy as NY, it is more laid-back. make it anywhere”. I think this city definite- ly builds up your character, as you have to Bike, MTA or WALK IT??? Do you think of yourself as a New Yorker? deal with different situations and people My favorite: walk, because I like to observe. Yes, definitely!

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Natural Selections is not an official publication of The Rockefeller University. University administration does not produce this newsletter. The views expressed by the contributors to this publication may not necessarily reflect views or policies of the University. 8 Supreme Effort G e o r g e B a r a n y a n d F r i e n d s Thisbipartisan politically themed puzzle was created within hours of a much-anticipated announcement by a consortium of friends of Rockefeller alum (1977) George Barany, who is currently on the faculty of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. For more about this specific puzzle, includ- ing a link to its answer, visit here. More Barany and Friends puzzles can be found here. ACROSS

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It is that time of the year when moun- tains are covered with snow. I took a few days off to forget all about the urban and stressful lifestyle. Walking for hours in such black & white scenery, with my steps and the distant echo of a bell or the barking of a dog as the only sound, is such a sim- ple and relaxing joy.

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