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OBITUARY In memoriam – Alan Hall
OnMay3 of this year, cell biology lost a giantwith the untimely passing of Alan Hall (Fig. 1). Alan didn’t discover the Rho family of GTPases but, more than anyone else, he and his laboratory brought these key regulatory proteins to the prominent position that they now occupy. I