Nick Simpson and Vivienne Mentor-Lalu

Project Proposal Student : Lalu Luka

Steve Simpson

Steve Simpson was born and grew up in Australia. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, he travelled to London where he undertook his PhD on locust feeding physiology. Steve then spent 22 years in Oxford, fi rst in Experimental Psychology and then in the Department of Zoology and the Natural History Museum, before being enticed back to Australia in 2005. Toge...

Nick Talbot

Nick Talbot is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Exeter, UK. He received his PhD at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the John Innes Centre, and then carried out postdoctoral research at Purdue University in the USA. Nick moved to the University of Exeter as a Lecturer in 1993. His research is concerned with understanding the biology of rice blast disease, one of the mo...

Nick Strausfeld

Nicholas J. Strausfeld was born in Surrey and raised in Brighton, Sussex. He received his B. Sc. and Ph.D. from University College London (1965, 1968) and his German Habilitation from the University of Frankfurt. After 19 years in Germany, first at Frankfurt’s Zoology Institute, later the MPI Tübingen and EMBL Heidelberg, he was appointed full professor in 1987 in the Division of Neurobiology a...

Channing and Simpson in Edinburgh

In August of 1852 Dr. Walter Channing, professor of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence at Harvard Medical School, was about to finish an extensive tour of Europe, having left Boston early in May of that year. He was sixtysix at the time, and almost a half century had passed since his previous trip to that continent where as a medical student he studied in Edinburgh and London. The trip had ta...