BSCB Newsletter, Spring 2010

Contents

Editorial

News
BSCB Newsletter Cover Image Competition
New Director for the Cardiff School of Biosciences
Libel Reform Campaign
2009 International Fellowship Association E:Survey
Schools News

Features
A Rough Guide to Life beyond your PhD
Inducing Apoptosis: Countdown to Self-Destruction
Emmanuelle Caron: 1967-2009

Book reviews
Understanding Bioinformatics
Structure and Function in Cell Signalling

Meeting reports
American Society for Cell Biology 2009 Annual Meeting
International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 7th annual meeting (1, 2, 3)
Society for Developmental Biology 68th Annual Meeting (1, 2)
International Gap Junction Conference 2009
XIII International Congress of Protistology
Dicty 2009
FASEB Summer Research Conference on 'Mitosis: Spindle Assembly and Function';
16th International Society of Developmental Biology Congress 2009
International Symposia on Signalling at the Blood-Brain and Retinal Barriers
Endocytic machineries in control of cell signalling and tissue morphogenesis (1, 2)
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (1, 2, 3)
16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (1, 2)

BSCB Summer Students reports
Analysis of the Interaction between Ciz1 and the Nuclear Matrix
Cellular localisation of a novel signal transducer in embryonic stem cells
Effects of formins during angiogenesis
Investigating the roles of the N-terminal extensions of the cell cycle regulated Nek6 and Nek7 kinases using a chimaeric approach
The association of BRCA1 with CtIP

PhD Student Section
Keeping Libel Laws Out of Science - Fighting for our Right to Debate

The cover image shows a population of eGFP astrocytes prior to transplantation. Astrocytes were labelled with GFP (green), GFAP (red) and GLAST (white) with nuclei identified using Hoescht (blue). Images was acquired using Leica DM6000 light microscope with 40x Leica lens. The image was taken by Dan Webber (Cambridge) and you can read his report on the 39th Annual meeting for the Society for Neuroscience in the meeting reports section.