Robert Orton

Orton-Gillingham Methodology for Students With Reading Disabilities

As the number of special education cases continues to rise (Zirkel & D’Angelo, 2002), so does the need to investigate the causes and nature of such increases. Litigation can be extremely costly and can create undue stress for students, districts, and parents. For example, in several reading methodology cases (e.g., Bd. of Educ. of the New Paltz Cent. Sch. Dist., 1997; Sch. Admin. Dist. #22, 200...

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