Early career Latinas in STEM: Challenges and solutions.

Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Central American Ancestry (MPRCA) individuals represent 82% of US Latinos. An intergenerational group of MPRCA women and allies met to discuss persistent underrepresentation of MPRCA women in STEM, identifying multi-level challenges and solutions. Implementation of these solutions is important and will benefit MPRCA women and the entire academic community.

DIVERSITY OF SIDEROPHORE-PRODUCING BACTERIAL CULTURES FROM CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK (CCNP) CAVES, CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO.

Siderophores are microbially-produced ferric iron chelators. They are essential for microbial survival, but their presence and function for cave microorganisms have not been extensively studied. Cave environments are nutrient-limited and previous evidence suggests siderophore usage in carbonate caves.

Principles of Intentional Mentoring.

This essay elucidates four universal principles that have been used in a psychosocial mentoring approach to help mentors and mentees to understand themselves, learn productive reframing, build their personal and family narratives, discover their paths forward, and make decisions that fit who they are, their values, and what they love.

Distinct histone methylation and transcription profiles are established during the development of cellular quiescence in yeast.

Background: Quiescent cells have a low level of gene activity compared to growing cells. Using a yeast model for cellular quiescence, we defined the genome-wide profiles of three species of histone methylation associated with active transcription between growing and quiescent cells, and correlated these profiles with the presence of RNA polymerase II and transcripts.

Results: Quiescent cells retained histone methylations normally associated with transcriptionally active chromatin and had many transcripts in common with growing cells.