Scientific Reports Earth Sciences Table of Contents e-alert: December 2011

01 December 2011      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports                 Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. Submit your manuscript now.                 Earth & Environmental Sciences               Defining the tipping point. A complex cellular life/death balance in corals in response to stress ▶     Ainsworth T. D., Wasmund K., Ukani L. et al.     Apoptotic cell death has been implicated in coral bleaching but the molecules involved and the mechanisms by which apoptosis is regulated are only now being identified. In …             Association of Kawasaki disease with tropospheric wind patterns ▶     Xavier Rodó, Joan Ballester, Dan Cayan et al.     The causal agent of Kawasaki disease (KD) remains unknown after more than 40 years of intensive research. The number of cases continues to rise in many parts of the world and KD …             Uncovering the Global Life Cycles of the Rare Earth Elements ▶     Xiaoyue Du, T. E. Graedel     The rare earth elements (REE) are a group of fifteen elements with unique properties that make them indispensable for a wide variety of emerging, critical technologies. Knowledge …                         Nature Reviews Neuroscience FOCUS ON ADDICTION Read for FREE online at: www.nature.com/nrn/focus/addiction Produced with support from National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.               • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Group Leader Position in Applied Infectious Diseases Research     Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen            Postdoctoral Research Assistant: Parasite Glycobiology     University of Dundee            Postdoctoral Researcher     Louisiana State University            Senior Research Scientist / Instructor (if qualify)     Boston University School of Medcine            BBSRC-funded CASE PhD studentships in Structural Molecular Biology     Imperial College London            Postdoctoral Position, (Chemo-)Genetic interactions     Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab)            Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Assistant Professor     California State University Monterey Bay            group leader in Cell Biology     Institut Curie/CNRS            Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Attosecond Science)     Griffith University            Research Assistants in Photochemical and Reaction Dynamics (Three Posts)     University of Bristol          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. Keep up-to-date with the latest sector trends, vote in our reader poll and sign-up to receive the monthly Naturejobs newsletter.           • Scientific Reports events featured events           natureevents featured events         Annual International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Sciences (SEES 2012)     13 - 14 February 2012 Singapore         Nature events is the premier resource for scientists looking for the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia. Featured across Nature Publishing Group journals and centrally at natureevents.com it is an essential reference guide to scientific events worldwide.                 Your email address is in the Scientific Reports: Earth Sciences mailing list. You have been sent this Table of Contents Alert because you have opted in to receive it. You can change or discontinue your e-mail alerts at any time, by modifying your preferences on your nature.com account at: www.nature.com/nams/svc/myaccount (You will need to log in to be recognised as a nature.com registrant). For further technical assistance, please contact our registration department For other enquiries, please contact our customer feedback department Nature Publishing Group | 75 Varick Street, 9th floor | New York | NY 10013-1917 | USA Nature Publishing Group's offices: Principal offices: London - New York - Tokyo Worldwide offices: Basingstoke - Boston - Buenos Aires - Delhi - Hong Kong - Madrid - Melbourne - Munich - Paris - San Francisco - Seoul - Washington DC Macmillan Publishers Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales under company number 785998 and whose registered office is located at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. © 2011 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.