Annual Reviews

Pamela Ronald, Professor of Plant Pathology at UC Davis and Author of the 2012 Annual Review of Plant Biology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her article Plant Innate Immunity: Perception of Conserved Microbial Signatures, which she co-wrote with Benjamin Schwessinger. She discusses the role of receptors in plant immune systems, how they react to bacterial quorum sensing, and how she and her tea...

Dr. Sandra Faber, Editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, talks with Mia Lobel about her scientific career, from being a child who loved to scan the heavens with a pair of her dad's binoculars, to work-life balance as a female scientist and working on the Hubble telescope. On the importance of astronomical knowledge, Sandra states that "it's astronomy that puts us in perspective...

In this new episode of Annual Reviews Conversations, Susan A. Gelman, Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Author of the 2009 Annual Review of Psychology and the 2011 Annual Review of Anthropology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her articles Learning from Others: Children's Construction of Concepts, and Concepts and Folk Theories, which she co-wrote with Christi...

Thomas Widiger, Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky and Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his most recent article for the journal, co-authored with Allen Frances of Duke University. In it, they list the lessons learned in the making DSM-IV and warn the makers of the fifth edition of the DSM against potential pitfalls. I...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), talks about his life and career with Nancy Rosenblum, Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University and Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. Growing up in a "family of lefties" during World War II, Professor Walzer began writing about politics as a child, a...

The Annual Review of Clinical Psychology presents Aaron T. Beck, President Emeritus of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and his daughter Judith S. Beck, President of the Beck Institute and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. In this interview, they talk ab...

Jeremy Thorner, Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Biochemistry, talks to journalist Anna Rascouët-Paz about his career in biochemistry and molecular biology. He also discusses the drift in science teaching in public schools across the United States. Focusing on the attacks on the Theory of Evolution by religious groups, he warns against the negative consequences of scientific illiteracy.

Nancy Rosenblum, Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science, talks with Sidney Verba at Harvard University. In this interview, Dr. Verba reflects on the lively contrasts and changes encompassed by his career, which included 24 years as Director of the Harvard University Library as well as his ground-breaking work on inequalities in citizen participation in democracies. Read the int...

Esther Duflo, Annual Review of Economics committee member, talks to journalist Anna Rascouët-Paz about her work in economics, particularly her work at the intersection of economics and social issues.

Esther Duflo, Annual Review of Economics committee member, talks to journalist Anna Rascouët-Paz about her work in economics, particularly her work at the intersection of economics and social issues. Visit Annual Reviews online at www.annualreviews.org.

Roger D. Kornberg, Editor of the Annual Review of Biochemistry, talks with Jon Cohen about his research into the fundamental basis of gene regulation: Transcription. Transcription is the first step and the key control point in the pathway of gene expression and occurs in all plants, animals, and even lower organisms. He also discusses how the strong pull of chemistry led him away from his original...

William E. Paul, Editor of the Annual Review of Immunology, discusses his work in immunology, including how the works of Michael Heidelberger sparked his initial interest in the field, as well as his tenure at the NIH.

Robert C. Merton, co-Editor of the Annual Review of Financial Economics, talks about his move from engineering mathematics to economics after becoming interested in stock markets at a young age. Dr. Merton also discusses financial models, the current economic crisis, as well as thoughts about future solutions for retirement.

Every year, the Editorial Committee of each Annual Reviews series asks an internationally distinguished researcher to prepare a prefatory article for the volume being planned. It was an easy choice for us to seek a contribution from John B. Fenn (b. 1917), who since 1994 has been a professor of analytical chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Few people have achieved...