A Conversation About Health Care Reform

Professor Victor R. Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser Jr Professor at Stanford (California) University, where he applies economic analysis to social problems of national concern, with special emphasis on health and medical care. He holds joint appointments in the Economics Department and the School of Medicine''s Department of Health Research and Policy. Professor Fuchs is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He was the first economist to receive the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Association for Health Services Research and has also received the Baxter Foundation Health Services Research Prize. Professor Fuchs is president-elect of the American Economic Association. His latest book, The Future of Health Policy, was published by Harvard University Press in 1993.The following edited conversation between Professor Fuchs and Linda Hawes Clever, MD, Editor of the journal, took place on April 8, 1994.     

In Remembrance: Professor Qian Ying-Qian(1932-2010)

Professor Qian Ying-Qian,a renowned Chinese plant biologist and a member of the editorial board of Acta Botanica Sinica(predecessor of JIPB)1989-1993,passed away in Beijing on April 20,2010 at the age of 78.Professor Qian was a former Secretary-General(1978-1988),and Vice President of the Chinese Botanical Society(1988-1999).     

Biochemical education in Romania: Report on a workshop held in Bucharest, 16–20 September 1991

The Workshop Team from IUBMB consisted of Professor W Rombauts (Leuven, Belgium), Professor F Vella (Saskatoon, Canada), and Dr E J Wood (Leeds, UK), with local arrangements being in the hands of Dr S A Hulea (Secretary of the Romanian Biochemical Society). The Workshop was held at the Institute of Biochemistry, Romanian Academy of Sciences (Head: Professor Dr Cecilia Motas) and there were participants from Bucharest, Constantin, Cluj-Napoca, Galati, Tasi and Sibiu. Support was kindly provided by the Romanian Biochemical Society, World Vision International, The Commission of Biochemistry, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davilla”, University of Bucharest, and IUBMB     

纪念戴芳澜教授诞辰九十周年

戴芳澜教授(1893.5.4—1973.1.3)是我国真菌学的创始人,也是我国植物病理学的主要奠基人之一。他为祖国培养了大量人才。为纪念他的光辉业绩,值戴教授诞辰九十周年、逝世十周年之际,特发表他的一篇评论性论文;戴教授的主要著作目录;俞大绂、陈鸿逵、周家炽、裘维蕃、相望年等教授的怀念性文章和他一生中各时期的照片两版,以资纪念。     

Introduction: Plant–herbivore interactions

This special feature resulted from a symposium entitled "Interactions Between Plants and Their Herbivores," held during the Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology in Ohmi-Shirahama, Shiga, Japan, in October 1999 (Chairperson of Symposium: Professor Emeritus E. Kuno of Kyoto University). This theme emerged from discussions by the organizing committee for this symposium: N. Yamamura, J. Takabayashi, T. Nishida, and N. Ohsaki. Professor Mark D. Rausher of Duke University was invited as a special lecturer. In this series of reports, five of the seven participants illustrate the variation found in plant–herbivore interactions and address some problems inherent in current theory.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Plant portraits from the Flora Danica 1716–1769. Plates by Martin & Michael Rossler. Text by Professor William T. Steam Mendip
Bonner, W. N. & Berry, R.J. 1980. Ecology in the Antarctic. Papers presented at a meeting held on 11 October 1979, organized by the Linnean Society of London.     

2009: 75 years of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology

The Netherlands Society of Cardiology (NVVC) was founded on 28 April 1934 on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Karel Frederik Wenckebach.     

Notes on the nomenclature of British mosses. II

Abstract

Paul Westmacott Richards (19 December 1908–4 October 1995) was for 75 years a member of ‘the Society’ (the Moss Exchange Club, MEC, later to become the British Bryological Society, BBS) and was, by some very considerable margin, its longest standing member (Figs 1–4). He was President of the BBS on two occasions (1950–51 and 1978–79), an office that no one else has held twice. He was elected an Honorary Member in 1970. From 1949 until 1976 he was Professor of Botany at the University College of North Wales (now University of Wales, Bangor).     

The European Proteomics Association (EuPA) is in the field. Report of the formal inauguration of the European Proteome Association (Munich, Germany, August 29, 2005)

After one year of preparation the European Proteomics Association (EuPA) was formally inaugurated on August 29, 2005, on the occasion of the 4(th) HUPO World Congress in Munich, Germany. Delegates from 16 European countries elected Dr. Friedrich Lottspeich, President of the German Proteome Society, as the first EuPA President. The EuPA Board also comprises Professor Mathias Uhlen as Vice President, along with Professor Michael Dunn (Ireland), Professor Concha Gil (Spain), Dr. Jean Charles Sanchez (Switzerland) and Professor Pier Giorgio Righetti (Italy) as Coordinators for the presently defined focus activities of the EuPA. The general objectives of the EuPA are to promote proteomic activities throughout Europe, emphasising the benefits and contribution of proteomics to biological researchers, industry, the general public and politicians.     

Equipment Reviews

A report of the Royal Society—Institute of Biology Biological Education Committee Working Party on Mathematics for Biologists under the Chairmanship of Professor M. H. Williamson, Department of Biology, University of York.     

Growing evidence for contacts between Polish and French geologists in the middle of 19th century

The paper presents results of studies on contacts and cooperation of Polish and French geologists in the middle of 19th century. The studies carried out in France (Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University, ‘Muséum national d’histoire naturelle’, Archives of the French Academy of Sciences, ‘Societé géologique de France’ in Paris and Claude-Bernard University in Lyons) and Poland have made it possible to gather data casting new light on the scale and intensity of the cooperation. The newly gathered information is mainly related to two outstanding geologists from these times: L. Zejszner, Professor at the Jagellonian University in Krakow; and E. Hébert, Professor at Sorbonne in Paris. It was found that in these times the collections of Sorbonne already comprised very numerous Polish fossils gathered by Beicher, Curet, Hébert, Lambert, Munier-Chalmas, Petitclerc and Zejszner and other researchers and collectors. This paper also presents information on Poles who were members of the Geological Society of France, unknown letters from E. Hébert to Polish geologists, a speech by E. Hébert delivered at the meeting of the Society to commemorate achievements of L. Zejszner, and data on contacts between L. Zejszner and d’Orbigny.     

James F. Crow and the art of teaching and mentoring

To honor James F. Crow on the occasion of his 95th birthday, GENETICS has commissioned a series of Perspectives and Reviews. For GENETICS to publish the honorifics is fitting, as from their birth Crow and GENETICS have been paired. Crow was scheduled to be born in January 1916, the same month that the first issue of GENETICS was scheduled to appear, and in the many years that Crow has made major contributions to the conceptual foundations of modern genetics, GENETICS has chronicled his and other major advances in the field. The commissioned Perspectives and Reviews summarize and celebrate Professor Crow's contributions as a research scientist, administrator, colleague, community supporter, international leader, teacher, and mentor. In science, Professor Crow was the international leader of his generation in the application of genetics to populations of organisms and in uncovering the role of genetics in health and disease. In education, he was a superb undergraduate teacher whose inspiration changed the career paths of many students. His teaching skills are legendary, his lectures urbane and witty, rigorous and clear. He was also an extraordinary mentor to numerous graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom went on to establish successful careers of their own. In public service, Professor Crow served in key administrative positions at the University of Wisconsin, participated as a member of numerous national and international committees, and served as president of both the Genetics Society of America and the American Society for Human Genetics. This Perspective examines Professor Crow as teacher and mentor through the eyes and experiences of one student who was enrolled in his genetics course as an undergraduate and who later studied with him as a graduate student.     

Thirty‐five years of spatial autocorrelation analysis in population genetics: an essay in honour of Robert Sokal (1926–2012)

We could not start this review, literally from the beginning, without expressing our sadness over the passing of Professor Robert R. Sokal. We are sure, nevertheless, that the importance of his scientific achievements will ensure he is long remembered. In this modest tribute to Professor Sokal, we highlight his contributions to the field of population genetics and spatial statistical methods. Specifically, we discuss how two papers, co‐authored with Professor N. L. Oden and published in the pages of the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society in 1978, revolutionized the field of analytical population genetics. In these papers, Sokal and Oden created an elegant framework for inferring evolutionary processes (e.g. isolation‐by‐distance, demic diffusion, selection gradients, genetic drift) from the spatial autocorrelation analysis of genetic variation patterns. We also highlight the pivotal importance of Sokal's work to the development of emerging fields (e.g. landscape and conservation genetics). We hope this virtual issue containing the papers that Professor Sokal published in BJLS, and later, related papers by other researchers, will help to remember his work and maintain his legacy of spatial analysis in genetics, ecology, and evolutionary biology. © 2012 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012, ??, ??–??.     

An interview with Angela Nieto. Interviewed by Eva Amsen

Angela Nieto is Full Professor at the Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH) in Alicante, Spain, and Head of the institute's Developmental Neurobiology Unit. She is also the current president of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (Sociedad Espa?ola de Biología del Desarollo, SEBD). We interviewed her to talk about the plans of the SEBD for the coming years.     

Biographical memoir: Alexander Beaumont Hope,Australian biophysicist, 1928–2008

This introductory article is the first of four short articles from the Tribute to Alex Hope Symposium held at the 2008 Australian Society for Biophysics meeting in Canberra, Australia, as a tribute to Professor Alex Hope, who died in July last year. As well as briefly introducing the other three articles by three former PhD students, it will also be a biographical memoir of Alex Hope.     

REVIEWS

Census Catalogue of British Lichens. By W. W atson .
Endosymbiose der Tiere mit pflanzlichen Mikroorganismen. By P aul B uchner , formerly Professor in Leipzig. 1953.
Evolution. Symposium of the Society for Experimental Biology , No. 7.
New Zealand Pollen Studies. The Monocotyledons. By L ucy M. C ranwell .
Spät-und nacheisseitliche Waldgeschichte Mitteleuropas nördlich der Alpen. Zweiter Band: Waldgeschichte der einzehien Landschaften. By F ranz F irbas .     

Potential of adenovirus as a vector for sustained gene expression

Inder Verma received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in 1971, and was a postdoctoral fellow (with David Baltimore) in the Department of Biology, Massachussetts Institute of Technology. He is currently American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, Chair of the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego. Inder Verma is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). He is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Gene Medicine, Journal of Virology and Gene, and serves on several other scientific advisory boards. His major fields of interest are molecular analysis of oncoproteins, and suppressor genes, gene therapy involving retroviral, adenoviral, AAV vectors, and generation of novel lentiviral vectors. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

FIRST WORLD CONGRESS OF HERPETOLOGY

THE CONGRESS will be held at University of Kent and in Canterbury. H.R.H. Prince Philip, President of the World Wildlife Fund, will serve as Patron of the Congress and Professor Angus A. Bellairs as Honorary President. The Congress will also serve as the official 1989 meetings of Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Herpetologists' League, and Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. It will be co-hosted by the Zoological Society of London, Fauna and Flora Preservation Society, Societas Europaea Herpetologica and The British Herpetological Society.
The Scientific Programme, subject to modification, is listed below. Plenary speakers and Convenors are now being invited. Persons who wish to participate in events should contact the Convenors, whose names and addresses may be obtained from the Secretariat (see below). There will be poster sessions open to all persons but no oral contributed papers. All presentations will be in English, but discussions can be in other languages.