Anne Buttimer, 1938-2017

In Memoriam: Honorary Member, Akihiro Ito MD., Ph.D., 1938–2017

Dr. Akihiro Ito, who had been popular in Japan by the name of Professor “Hormone”, died from sepsis on August 24 after a long illness. Dr. Ito was born on Janunary 3, 1938, in Hiroshima prefecture. He graduated from the School of Medicine at Hiroshima University in March of 1962, and received his doctorate from the graduate school of the University in March of 1967. He became a research assista...

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Anne Magurran

The overwhelming appeal of the concept of evolution through natural selection has focused the minds of generations of biologists on trends, and the similarities and differences between organisms that is grist to the mill of taxonomists. “To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, ‘Where is the imagination that has been lost in knowledge and where is the knowledge that has been lost in information?’ This book is...

Marie-Anne Félix

Marie-Anne Félix is a Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) and a Principal Investigator at the Institut Jacques Monod in Paris. She started her scientific career in cell biology, and later turned to development and evolution. In the last years, her laboratory focused on evolution of vulva development in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and othe...