Miriam Cooke, Claire Gebeyli

Miriam B. Goodman

Miriam B. Goodman is an Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. Her lab is a collection of people with diverse training and a shared interest in understanding how sensation works. Her first exposure to scientific research was as a high school student in Bethesda, MD, when she wrote custom scientific software at NIH. After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in...

Mechanosensation * Miriam

Wild C. elegans and other nematodes live in dirt and eat bacteria, relying on mechanoreceptor neurons (MRNs) to detect collisions with soil particles and other animals as well as forces generated by their own movement. MRNs may also help animals detect bacterial food sources. Hermaphrodites and males have 22 putative MRNs; males have an additional 46 MRNs, most, if not all of which are needed f...

Claire Walczak

favourite plants. Linnaeus’s affection for it has been well documented: he used it as a mattress and cover when he slept in woods during his journeys across Sweden. This month also sees the opening of a new exhibition to celebrate Linnaeus at the Natural History Museum, Systema Metropolis, exploring the unseen wildlife in London from a number of sites. Created by the US artist, Mark Dion, it re...

Robert V. Cooke

Mr. Robert Cooke formerly Senior Surgeon to the United Bristol Hospitals died on 17th January 1978 at the age of 75. He was born at Berkeley Gloucestershire and educated at the Grammar School at Lydney on the "Opposite side of the Severn Estuary. He entered the University of Bristol to study Chemistry but soon moved to the Faculty of Medicine and qualified in 1926. After house surgeon aPpointme...

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