Alexander Agassiz

The name of the father: conflict between Louis and Alexander Agassiz and the Embiotoca surfperch radiation.

The surfperch genus Embiotoca currently comprises two species, Embiotoca jacksoni, the black surfperch, and Embiotoca lateralis, the striped surfperch. Originally, however, Louis Agassiz described a third species in the genus Embiotoca, the rainbow surfperch, Embiotoca caryi. This latter name was changed by Louis' son, Alexander, to Hypsurus caryi, a name that remains valid. In this study, new ...

Alexander Ogilvy

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As a former student of Professor Ostrowski—one of his last— I am delighted to recall here the life and work of one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century. Needless to say that, in view of Ostrowski’s immense and vastly diverse mathematical legacy, this can be done only in a most summary fashion. Further literature on Ostrowski can be found in some of the references at the end of this a...

Alexander Sturn

Cluster Analysis for Large Scale Gene Expression Studies High throughput gene expression analysis is becoming more and more important in many areas of biomedical research. cDNA microarray technology is one very promising approach for high throughput analysis and provides the opportunity to study gene expression patterns on a genomic scale. Thousands or even tens of thousands of genes can be spo...

Alexander Borst

Alexander Borst studied Biology at the University of Wuerzburg. His PhD work in Martin Heisenberg’s lab demonstrated that the mushroom bodies of Drosophila are indispensable for olfactory learning. He did a postdoc with Karl Goetz at the Max-PlanckInstitute for biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, where he started to work on fly motion vision, a field which he never left since. In 1993, he becam...