BSCB Newsletter, Autumn 2010

Contents

Editorial

News
Hooke Medal 2011 - Alex Gould
Hooke Medal 2010 presentation - Karim Labib
BSCB Summer Studentships
BSCB Science Writing Prize 2011
Schools news

Features
1st BSCB Image Competition Winners
The Sheffield RNAi Screening Facility

Book reviews
Lewin's Cells, Second Edition
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Cell Biology

Meeting reports
7th International Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis
The 54th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society
Keystone Symposia on 'Cilia, Signaling and Human Disease'
Keystone Symposia: Lymphocyte Activation and Gene Expression
NGF 2010: 'Neurotrophic factors in health and disease'

PhD Student Section
Hello from your BSCB PhD representative!
Getting that Red Bull Effect
My First Conference

BSCB Business
President's report, 20 June 2010
BSCB Accounts, 2008 [PDF]

The cover image is the winning entry in the BSCB 2010 Image Competition. Dan Webber’s image shows neural precursor cells which, when exposed to the bone morphogenetic protein BMP4, rapidly differentiate and produce astrocytes (stained with GFAP in red) from a central sphere. Dan is a research associate at the University of Edinburgh and is currently visiting scientist in the Anne McLaren Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine in the University of Cambridge.