CHARLES HOWARD USHER, 1865-1942

A magpie with a card-index mind – Charles Davies Sherborn 1861–1942

Charles Davies Sherborn was geologist, indexer and bibliographer extraordinaire. He was fascinated by science from an early age and like so many Victorians, the young Sherborn was a passionate natural history collector and was obsessed with expanding his collection of land and freshwater shells. He later described himself as being a 'thorough magpie' and having 'a card-index mind', and these tw...

The Mayo brothers (William James Mayo 1861-1939, Charles Horace Mayo 1865-1939): pioneers of group surgical practice.

USHER\'S SYNDROME REVISITED

Usher's syndrome is a genetically inherited autosomal recessive disorder resulting in the double handicap of deafness and progressive blindness, known as retinitis pigmentosa. The disease is also associated with psychoses, mental retardation, and other major neurophysiological changes. It appears to be more common among Jewish individuals and consanguinous marriages. While it is rare in th...

C2lc21146g 1865..1873

Mechanotransduction is known as the cellular mechanism converting insoluble biophysical signals in the local cellular microenvironment (e.g. matrix rigidity, external mechanical forces, and fluid shear) into intracellular signalling to regulate cellular behaviours. While microfluidic technologies support a precise and independent control of soluble factors in the cellular microenvironment (e.g....

Joe Howard

Joe Howard is a Group Leader and Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. He has always been on the move. In his native Australia he did his PhD on the neurobiology of vision; in San Francisco he worked on hair cells and hearing; and in Seattle he developed single-molecule techniques to study microtubules and kinesins. He wrote a textbook on the Me...