William Carroll wins Parsons Award

Arf6 wins the MVP award

The biosynthetic mevalonate pathway (MVP) produces the building blocks for a wide range of biological molecules, from cholesterol to the long-chain prenyl groups that mediate the membrane association of Ras family GTPases (1). Mutations in the tumor suppressor p53 can up-regulate the MVP, a phenomenon that enhances the invasiveness of certain breast cancer cell lines by an unknown mechanism (2)...

William Parsons, third Earl of Rosse

William Allan Award Address

I am deeply honored by the Allan Award, for myself and for all my colleagues who have been involved in the often labyrinthine pathway of research that led initially from a freezer at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, and culminated eventually in DNA fingerprinting. One of the great pleasures of science for me is the unexpected and serendipitous twists of fate that can shift the emphasis ...

RCT wins CMAJ Bruce Squires Award.

Allison Bishop Wins NSF CAREER Award Allison

The flip side of the data revolution is that massive data has rendered many standard algorithms computationally expensive, necessitating a wholesale rethinking of even the most basic computational methods. To take one example: Nearest neighbors search, the classic method since the 70s for finding similarity among objects, is straightforward for small data sets: compare every object to every oth...