BSCB Newsletter, Spring 2012

Contents

Editorial

News
New Director for the Paterson
BSCB Newsletter Cover Image Competition
New format for BSCB/BSDB Annual Spring Meeting
Schools news: From my school bag

Features
Leonard 'Sammy' Franks: 1921–2011
Euro-Bioimaging
BSCB Science Writing Prize: The logistics of cellular traffic

Book reviews
The Epigenetics Revolution
The Emperor of Maladies – A Biography of Cancer

Meeting reports
Fungal Development and Pathogenesis
ECDO: 19th Euroconference on Apoptosis
International Federation of Placenta Associations, 2011
European Muscle Conference 2011
Frontiers in BioImaging
CNRS-Jacques Monod Conference: Molecular basis for membrane remodeling and organization
The 26th European Cytoskeletal Forum (ECF) Meeting: Actin-Based Motility
41st Society for Neuroscience Meeting
51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology
Keystone Symposia: Angiogenesis

BSCB PhDs
Conferences: More than a chance for an exotic holiday

BSCB Summer studentships
Investigating a lysosomal pathway of cell death in mammary gland
Fascin, Rac1 and cancer metastasis
Alternative initiation codons lead to multiple, differentially localised isoforms of an RNA-binding protein
What defines the 'alternatively activated' phenotype of mononuclear phagocytes?
Investigating the role of the Salvador-Warts-Hippo pathway in tissue architecture
The consequences of palindrome induced DNA double-strand break repair on chromosome segregation in Escherichia coli

The cover image is the 2nd prize entry in the 2011 BSCB Image Competition. Keiran Boyle's wonderful image shows a cultured hippocampal neuron in the early stages of synaptogenesis. The morphology of the neuron is visualised by staining with an antibody against tubulin. Incoming axons form synapses onto the neuron and are stained for VAMP2 and Synapsin-1.