Hallett, "Stone Talks"

Henry Hallett Dale, 1875-1968.

Sir Henry Hallett Dale and acetylcholine story.

Living organisms depend upon their nervous systems to provide integrated responses to environmental stresses. Due to Chiarles Sherrington we recognize that the key to understanding nervous integration resides not in the body of the cell or in its long filamentous axon, nor in the ionic slhifts involved in electrical propagation, but rather in the subtle events occurring at the gap between nerve...

Plenary Talks

Invited Talks

In 2009, Peter Cameron introduced a common generalization of various classes of combinatorial designs such as balanced incomplete block designs, resolvable designs and orthogonal arrays. Generalized covering and packing designs can be defined in analogous way. These objects bring into this framework further classes of designs, including covering and packing arrays, Howell designs, monogamous cy...

Hour Talks

Efforts to detect targets of recent positive selection (“selective sweeps”) in the genome frequently involve an initial screen of a region of the genome at a low density of markers (either SNPs or microsatellites), followed by a denser screen in the region flanking markers that show reduced or skewed variation relative to that predicted by an equilibrium neutral model or relative to “background...