Robert Coover's Playing Fields

Synthetic Turf Versus Natural Turf for Playing Fields

This report describes research we performed for the San Francisco Department of the Environment (SFE) to assist in decisionmaking regarding the purchasing of synthetic turf. Synthetic turf is becoming increasingly popular as a surface for playing fields. The products have improved and many competing brands are now available, offering a range of choices of materials. These fields offer a number ...

Robert Insall

Robert Insall was born in London in 1965, into a family of architects, musicians and historians. To their great surprise, he was obviously scientifically inclined from an early age. He did a B.A. at Cambridge University, then stuck around in Cambridge for a Ph.D., where he got interested in Dictyostelium, followed by a postdoc in Johns Hopkins, where he got interested in chemotaxis and cell mov...

Robert Koch

Robert Dottin

We are investigating the signal transduction mechanisms by which extracellular hydrophilic hormones activate genes. We use Dictyostelium discoideum as a model eukaryote because it is relatively easy to perform reverse genetics on this organism and it is also capable of development. We had earlier shown that extracellular cAMP behaves as a hydrophilic

Robert Fletcher