Richard P. Van Duyne, plasmonics pioneer

Richard Rosner, MD: pioneer in forensic psychiatry.

“If you don’t do it, someone worse will.” Richard Rosner, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, Director of NYU’s Forensic Psychiatry Residency Program, and seminal figure in North American forensic psychiatry enjoys his own pithy observation. He trots it out to encourage his students to run for political office in professional organizations and to expl...

Jan van Deursen: From knockout pioneer to antiaging innovator

JCB • VOLUME 210 • NUMBER 3 • 2015 366 Now that he’s run his own laboratory for 19 years, Jan van Deursen looks back at his doctoral student days with wry amusement. His advisor, Bé Wieringa at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, put him on a project to make one of the fi rst genetic knockout mice. “What was he thinking?” van Deursen now wonders. The mouse, lacking the muscle creatin...

Substance P: a pioneer amongst neuropeptides.

A brief overview of recent developments in the substance P field is provided, in addition to a historical introduction. It is emphasized that there are multiple tachykinins and tachykinin receptors and that there are examples of coexistence of several tachykinin peptides and of several tachykinin receptors in single cells, and there is evidence for tachykininergic cotransmission. The distributi...

Neurophysiol Martin J . Lankheet and Richard J . A . van Wezel Anna Oleksiak , P . Christiaan Klink , Albert Postma , Ineke J . M . van der Ham

Neurophysiol Martin J . Lankheet and Richard J . A . van Wezel Anna Oleksiak , P . Christiaan Klink , Albert Postma , Ineke

publishes original articles on the function of the nervous system. It is published 12 times a year Journal of Neurophysiology