Biologist - November 2009
In this issue
PDFs of articles in this issue are available on the right
Society of Biology - a united voice for all bioscientists
Nancy Rothwell
Welcome to the new look Biologist, the journal for the new organisation for biosciences in the UK!
Science Policy
Public engagement - a key part of our role
The value of nature
Beyond 2010
Setting funding priorities
BBSRC strategic funding
Impacts of climate change
Biodiversity and land-use: cooperation and conflict
Geoffrey R Dixon and Ceri Margerison
Conflicting objectives have tended to dominate the relationship between the interests of biodiverse nature and the productive use of rural land, not least in Europe.
Chronobiology and chronomics: detecting and applying the cycles of nature
Franz Halberg, Germaine Cornelissen, Douglas Wilson, R B Singh, Fabien De Meester, Yoshihiko Watanabe, Kuniaki Otsuka and Elchin Khalilov
Through nucleic acid, cycles found in the cosmos eventually become self-sustaining and self-reproducing organisms, inluding humans, with impacts at the level of society.
The tale of the trypanosome tail
Helen Dawe and Eva Gluenz
The flagellum of the African sleeping sickness parasite Trypanosome brucei is central to parasite biology, being required for such diverse processes as motility, vector attachment, cell morphogenesis and cytokinesis.
Frontal assault
Jim Horne
There have been a number of well-documented accounts of people losing significant portions of the frontal areas of the brain and surviving with little obvious ill effect.
Who was...Marcello Malpighi?
Keith Harris
Most biologists will recognise the name of Malpighi who had a considerable impact on the growth of the biological sciences during and after his lifetime.
The further 'ascent' of Man
David Goodall
We have been celebrating Darwin's Bicentenry, and the 150th anniversary of his presentation to the Linnean Society of London, with Wallace, of the concept of natural Selection. Yet, at the present time, the process of natural selection has become largely irrelevant to the future of the species of which darwin was a member.
Attached documents
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Biologist Nov 09 SciPol | PDF 2.39 Mb | Published 09 December 2009
Science policy pages -
Biologist Nov 09 Rothwell | PDF 98 Kb | Published 09 December 2009
Society of Biology - a united voice for all bioscientists by Nancy Rothwell -
Biologist Nov 09 Dixon et al | PDF 374 Kb | Published 09 December 2009
Biodiverity and land-use: cooperation and conflict by Dixon et al -
Biologist Nov 09 Halberg et al | PDF 399 Kb | Published 09 December 2009
Chronobiology and chronomics: detecting and applying the cycles of nature by Halberg et al -
Biologist Nov 09 Dawe | PDF 475 Kb | Published 09 December 2009
The tale of the trypanosome tail by Dawe and Gluenz -
Biologist Nov 09 Horne | PDF 194 Kb | Published 09 December 2009
Frontal assault by Jim Horne -
Biologist Nov 09 Harris | PDF 124 Kb | Published 09 December 2009
Who was...Marcello Malpighi? by Keith Harris -
Biologist Nov 09 Goodall | PDF 244 Kb | Published 09 December 2009
The further \'ascent\' of Man by David Goodall
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