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This week in Nature Communications - A new Open Access paper from members of the Carazo Salas Group: Wall mechanics and exocytosis define the shape of growth domains in fission yeast . "Cell shape is determined by a combination of biochemical regulation and mechanical forces. How mechanics and biochemistry generate...

The Department is sad to learn of the death of a former Part II student [graduating in 1970], Professor Chris Marshall. He had worked at the Institute of Cancer Research for 35 years, where the discoveries he made in his research on the Ras oncogene and its mechanisms of action have made it into the textbooks - '...a...

Dr Aylwyn Scally and Dr Michaela Frye have been appointed to the recently advertised Departmental lectureships in the Department of Genetics. Aylwyn Scally 's research is undertaken in computational genetics and genomics. He has a particular focus on human and primate evolution, and uses computational and mathematical...

Many congratulations to Professor Anthony W.F. Edwards FRS, Emeritus Professor of Biometry, Fellow of Gonville and Caius, and former Part II student of R.A. Fisher - gaining a First in 1957 - who this week was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society. In addition to his pioneering work on quantitative methods, Anthony'...