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Please find below suggested ¶¶ÒùÊÓƵ experts on current topics of regional, provincial, national and international interest for Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018.Ìý

Central American migrants met with resistance, including tear gas, at American border
Dalhousie Expert: Dr. Howard Ramos, Professor, Associate Dean Research, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology.  
Research Specialties: Social justice and inequality, migration/immigration, race, social change, social movements and social statistics.Ìý
°ä´Ç²Ô³Ù²¹³¦³Ù:Ìýhoward.ramos@dal.ca and 902-494-3130 or 902-494-6595.  

Chinese researcher claims first gene-edited babies
Dalhousie Experts: Dr. Françoise Baylis, Dalhousie Research Professor; and Dr. Graham Dellaire, Professor (Pathology), Department of Pathology and Biochemistry.  
Research Specialties: CRISPR genome engineering, the role of nuclear organization in DNA repair, cell cycle control, genome instability, and pre-mRNA splicing.Ìý
°ä´Ç²Ô³Ù²¹³¦³Ù:ÌýDr. Dellaire - dellaire@dal.ca and 902-494-4730; Dr. Baylis - francoise.baylis@dal.ca and 902-494-6458.Ìý

NASA lands spacecraft on Mars to explore the planet's interior
Dalhousie Experts: Dr.ÌýScott Chapman, Professor, Killam Professor in Astrophysics, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science; and Dr. Philip Bennett, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science.Ìý
Research Specialties: Stellar atmospheres and winds, ultraviolet spectroscopy, red supergiant stars, fundamental stellar parameters, adaptive optics instrumentation, distant galaxies and ULIRGs, gravitational lenses, astrophysics and cosmology.
°ä´Ç²Ô³Ù²¹³¦³Ù:ÌýDr. Chapman - Scott.Chapman@Dal.ca and 902-494-2340; Dr. Bennett - Philip.Bennett@Dal.Ca and 902-494-2313.Ìý