Geoffrey Rowell: Bishop, Scholar, Friend (13 February 1943 – 11 June, 2017)

th Imaging Genetics Conference February 13 th , 2017

Geoffrey C Schild (1935‐2017)

On 3 August 2017, Dr Geoffrey Schild passed away after battling with illness for several years. Geoffrey was a worldrenowned virologist who had a major influence in the fields of influenza virus surveillance and prevention, poliovirus eradication, AIDS vaccine development and the virological safety of blood products. He began his scientific career in the department of Sir Charles StuartHarris a...

Mark E. Josephson (1943–2017)

Dr. Mark Josephson was an innovative giant in clinical electrophysiology. On 11 January 2017 he passed away after a long illness. Josephson started his scientific carrier in the early 1970s at the electrophysiological laboratory of Dr. Anthony Damato on Staten Island. Later he moved to Philadelphia to start his own laboratory. In 1978 and 1979 he published a series of four famous key papers in ...

Prof Jana Zvarova, PhD (1943–2017)

147 On July 5th passed away academician professor Jana Zvarova, one of pioneers and one of most influential Medical informatics scientist and expert in Europe and in the world. Professor Jana Zvarova was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. After graduating in mathematics in 1965 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague she has been working with several faculties of Ch...

Vet February 2017.indd

Trematodes are almost all hermaphrodite (schistosomes being the exception) flat worms (flukes) which have a two or more host life cycle, with snails featuring consistently as an intermediate host. Dogs and cats residing in Europe, including the UK and Ireland, are far less likely to acquire trematode or fluke infections, which means that veterinary surgeons are likely to be unconfident when the...