ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors selection papers published in Journal Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Tina Angelika Schrader and Ruth Carmichael are co-first on ‘ PEX11β FIS1 cooperate peroxisome division independently mitochondrial fission factor’, JCS. senior research technician lab Prof. Michael ...

Landscape cosmology posits the existence of a convoluted, multidimensional, scalar potential -- "landscape" with vast numbers metastable minima. Random matrices and random functions in many dimensions provide toy models landscape, allowing exploration conceptual issues associated these scenarios. We compute relative number slopes minima as function vacuum energy $\Lambda$ an $N$-dimensional Gau...

Lambda-lifting is a program transformation used in compilers and in partial evaluators and that operates in cubic time. In this article, we show how to reduce this complexity to quadratic time, and we present a flow-sensitive lambda-lifter that also works in quadratic time. Lambda-lifting transforms a block-structured program into a set of recursive equations, one for each local function in the...

Little is known about the fungal role in biogeochemical cycling in oligotrophic ecosystems. This study compared fungal communities and assessed the role of exogenous carbon on microbial community structure and function in two southern Appalachian caves: an anthropogenically impacted cave and a nearpristine cave. Due to carbon input from shallow soils, the anthropogenically impacted cave had an ...

The AKS conjecture states that (ζ − 1) ≡ ζ − 1 (mod n) for ζ an r-th root of unity with r prime, only if n is a prime and r n − 1. If n is a prime, n-th power map would be a Frobenius automorphism of Fn(ζ), and thus the congruence will hold true. In general, n-th power map is not a field automorphism, but under suitable conditions, it can be a group automorphism of the multiplicative group of c...