MALCOLM JAMES SIMONS (1939-2012)

Obituary: Dr. Laurent Descarries (1939–2012)

On October 3rd 2012, one of Canada’s leading neuroscientists, Dr. Laurent Descarries, a professor at the Université de Montréal, passed away at the age of 73. Dr. Descarries was internationally renowned for his extensive work on the ultrastructural organization of monoaminergic and cholinergic innervations in the brain, and in particular for his work demonstrating the mostly asynaptic character...

James Franklin Crow (1916–2012)

years, like Lake Vostok, underneath the eponymous Russian research station at 77 degrees South. One of the largest lakes on our planet, Lake Vostok is comparable in volume to Lake Ontario. Back in 1998, a research team drilled around three kilometres deep into the ice shield stopping only a few hundred metres above the lake surface. The lower parts of the ice core, believed to consist of frozen...

Obituary: Odile Bain (28/04/1939–16/10/2012)

Odile Bain was born on April 28, 1939 in Dalat (VietNam) where her father, a military officer, was based at the time. Her high school days were spent in Dakar (Senegal) and in 1960 she graduated from the Faculty of Biology in Rennes (France). After a short stay at the Faculty as a teaching assistant, she moved to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris (France) in September 1964, wher...

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

Malcolm Bennett

Poppy, who also was a co-organiser of the meeting, leads a new research project called ASSETS (Attaining Sustainable Services from Ecosystems through Trade-off Scenarios). This project investigates two model regions at the forest–agriculture interface, one in Colombia and one in Malawi. The case studies cover around two million people, but the researchers believe that the results they obtain wi...