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University of Plymouth: Inaugural Lectures

One evening in 1993, the University of Plymouth was host to a unique event. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Bull, was able to introduce inaugural lectures by the University’s two newest Professors of Chemistry in a ’double feature’ presentation. Professor Paul Worsfold .joined the Plymouth Analytical Chemistry Research Unit in the Department of Environmental Sciences from the University of ...

The University of Plymouth - based team

This paper describes an ‘icebreaker’ used at the start of a final year geomorphology module. Teamwork was designed to be an important component of a module which involved a mix of problem-based and curriculum-mode learning. Each team had to collect and reassemble six parts of one of several images dispersed amongst the class. The instructions were given in written form for the exercise which wa...

NDT goes Open Access

Roger M Pinder1 Allan Young2 1York, UK; 2Institute of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada NDT goes Open Access Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment (NDT) began life 2 years ago like a typical academic journal, as the offi cial journal of the International Neuropsychiatric Association and distributed through individual and institutional su...

Transcription goes digital.

Transcription is a complex process that integrates the state of the cell and its environment to generate adequate responses for cell fitness and survival. Recent microscopy experiments have been able to monitor transcription from single genes in individual cells. These observations have revealed two striking features: transcriptional activity can vary markedly from one cell to another, and is s...

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