BSCB Newsletter, Spring 2011

Contents

Editorial

News
Jordan Raff - new BSCB President
BSCB Newsletter Cover Image Competition
Schools News: The Student as Client - Tuition Fees

Features
The Art of Science
The Translational Research Resource Centre, UCL
Mechanochemical cell biology: A new centre at Warwick
BSCB Science Writing Prize 2011
What makes us tick? Winner of the BSCB Science Writing Prize 2011

Book Reviews
Genome Duplication: Concepts, Mechanisms, Evolution and Disease 
Cancer - A Beginners Guide

Meeting Reports
Dicty 2010: The Annual International Dictyostelium Meeting
The EMBO meeting 2010
BSCB Sponsored Meeting: The North of England Cell Biology Forum
BSCB Autumn Meeting: Cell Organisation Through The Cell Cycle
BSCB Sponsored Meeting: 4th European Conference on Tetraspanins
The 13th International Xenopus Conference
Telomeres and the DNA Damage Response
ESF–EMBO Symposium on Emergent Properties of the Cytoskeleton 1, 2
Nature CNIO Cancer Symposium

Summer Studentships
Development of the Drosophila melanogaster nervous system
The impact of extracellular matrix stiffness on Endo180-mediated prostate cancer cell migration
Do moss GSK3s regulate development – and if so, how?  
The role of the Golgi in ciliogenesis
Understanding the cellular basis of UV tolerance in Arabidopsis natural populations
In vitro interaction studies of vesicle tethering complexes
Dendritic spine loss in Alzheimer's disease: Role of the actin-binding protein drebrin
Characterisation of a putative Drosophila eIF2a phosphatase

BSCB Postdocs
Hello fellow postdocs
Postdoctoral Life in Singapore

BSCB PhD students
A New Year = A New You?

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The cover is the 2nd prize entry in the BSCB 2010 Image Competition. Helen White-Coopers’s beautiful image shows Drosophila spermatids. Actin-rich investment cones (coloured in green but labelled with FITC-phalliodin) start at the nuclei (coloured in magenta) and progress along the spermatids, eliminating excess cytoplasm from the spermatids, to result in streamlined individual sperm. Helen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cardiff. The deadline for the call for entries for the 2011 BSCB Image Competition is 30th June.