Invertebrate Systematics – Continuing to move forward

Pulling Back to Move Forward

Animal cells can change shape and move by using actin polymerization to drive plasma membrane protrusion. Giannone and coworkers (this issue of Cell) describe how cells periodically pull back on these protrusions in order to sense and respond to the rigidity of their environment.

Clinical inertia: hard to move it forward.

Skin Microbiome: Looking Back to Move Forward

Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses, archaea, and small arthropods colonize the skin surface, collectively comprising the skin microbiome. Generations of researchers have classified these microbes as transient versus resident, beneficial versus pathogenic, and collaborators versus adversaries. Culturing and direct sequencing of microbial inhabitants identified distinct populations present at ...

Visual tracking strategies to move scholarship forward.

Moving from the doctoral student role to the faculty member role is a challenging transition. Strategies that motivate and help keep scholarship moving forward can be invaluable in helping make the transition successful. The authors discuss 2 visual tracking strategies to promote the forward movement of scholarship. A whiteboard (dry erase) and a publication trajectory table to track manuscript...

Implications and Ways to Move Forward

Intermediate means of transport have been presented as potential solutions to local transport and accessibility problems. However, in some situations, transport problems may be best solved through non-transport solutions (see Box 25). Where there are problems transporting water and firewood, it may be possible to create a water source nearby (a well or piped water) and reduce the demand for dis...