Acta
Award Ceremony of the Pius XI Medal
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, NEST Laboratory, Pisa, Italy Read all
Award Ceremony of the Pius XI Medal
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT & HHMI, Cambridge, MA, USA. The mechanisms that regulate organismal growth (mass accumulation) and coordinate it with the ... Read all
Award Ceremony of the Pius XI Medal
Department of Agricultural & Bio-systems Engineering, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Introduction Most developing countries have an economy strongly dominated by the ... Read all
Commemoration
Vera Rubin was one of those who revolutionized our understanding of galaxies and cosmic structure by confirming the existence of dark matter. She died on Christmas Day 2016 at the ... Read all
Commemoration
Professor Félix Malu wa Kalenga died in April 2011 at the age of 74 years. He was born on September 1936 in Boma, province of Congo. From the very beginning he was a brilliant ... Read all
Commemoration
Fotis Kafatos, the distinguished Greek biologist, passed away on November 18, 2017, in Heraklion, at the age of 77, after a long illness. He had a brilliant academic carrier in ... Read all
Commemoration
Soon after I enrolled as a graduate student at Cambridge, I encountered a fellow student, who seemed unsteady on his feet and spoke with difficulty. I learnt that he’d arrived two ... Read all
Commemoration
Günter Blobel was a cell biologist born 81 years ago in Silesia, eastern Germany, now part of Poland. He had a colourful life. He had an idyllic childhood during the Second World ... Read all
Self-Presentation
Three episodes shaped my research and professional careers First Episode 1. 1974: returned to Sudan after obtaining my Doctorate degree in mathematics from ... Read all
Self-Presentation
Like Dr Betzig, I’m also from Michigan, eight years older, also grew up in the Detroit area and went to the Jesuit High School. Now, everybody of my generation who was male was ... Read all
Self-Presentation
I grew up as a middle child of three brothers in a suburb of New York City and in this family education was not merely emphasised, it was the reason for our existence. Firstly, all ... Read all