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When bright light shines in the eye, the pupil constricts. In dim light, it dilates. Now investigators at the School of Medicine have demonstrated in chickens that a protein called cryptochrome plays a key role in that reflex.

Singer songwriter Chris Hobler has teamed up with the School of Medicine to help create a new center dedicated to neurological research. Hobler suffers from ALS, commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Read more in the following article written by Tina Hesman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

A media briefing on continuing preparations for the Oct. 8 presidential debate will be held at Washington University at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6.

Two initiatives in the Department of Neurology should help in the effort to take research from bench to bedside, a key strategy for BioMed 21. Learn more about each of the projects in the following story from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and two School of Medicine press releases.

Joe Angeles / WUSTL PhotoChancellor Wrighton gives a post-conference interviewThe Washington University Athletic Complex looks less and less like the home to some of the most successful NCAA Division III teams every day. In the first of a series of media briefings, university administrators updated members of the media about the progress of transforming the Athletic Complex into a “town hall” for the second presidential debate, on Oct. 8.

The top economic advisers for President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry will debate at 8 a.m. Oct. 8, the day of the second presidential debate, which will take place at Washington University in St. Louis. The event will be held at Lee Auditorium in the Missouri History Museum, Lindell Boulevard at DeBaliviere Avenue in St. Louis’ Forest Park. John Berry, columnist for Bloomberg News, will moderate the debate between the two advisers.

Browse and download images of the 2000 Presidential Debate at Washignton University in St. Louis. Flash 7 or higher is required.

FaludiPulitzer Prize-winning author, Susan Faludi will present “Gender Roles: A Generation of Change” at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 13 in Graham Chapel. Faludi is the author of two books. Her talk is the keynote address of the 30th annual Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin conference.

To help ensure the security before, during and after the Presidential Debate at Washington University on October 8, traffic will be restricted or, in some limited cases, completely prohibited on streets near and within the Washington University HILLTOP campus throughout the day of the event.

To stick to cells in the respiratory tract and start an infection, the bacterium Haemophilus influenza has to secrete a glue-like protein. Researchers at the School of Medicine recently reported that a study of the valve that lets out the glue has produced some surprising information.