Prof. Wilfred Merchant

Farewell Wilfred

It is with great sadness that we announce the untimely death of our friend and colleague, Wilfred Röling, on September 25th. Wilfred was a truly inspirational scholar active in a range of topics within environmental microbiology and microbial biotechnology, and was one of only a handful of researchers worldwide able to effectively combine wet and in silico science. The loss to scholarly endeavo...

Wilfred Leslie Sleight

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S. Fernández-Merchant †

Even the most superficial glance at the vast majority of crossing-minimal geometric drawings of Kn reveals two hard-to-miss features. First, all such drawings appear to be 3-fold symmetric (or simply 3-symmetric) . And second, they all are 3-decomposable, that is, there is a triangle T enclosing the drawing, and a balanced partition A,B,C of the underlying set of points P , such that the orthog...

Profile of Sabeeha Merchant.

Organic molecules dominate the biological world, yet many of life’s critical molecular reactions depend on metals for catalysis. Sabeeha Merchant, a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), studies how cells keep track of crucial trace nutrients like iron and copper. Her early work on Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a single-celled alga that, like all plants, pr...