The need exists for high-sensitivity, low-noise vibration sensors for various applications such as geophysical data collection, vehicle tracking, intrusion detection, and underwater pressure gradient detection. In general, these sensors differ from classical accelerometers in that they require no dc response, but must have a very low noise floor over a required bandwidth. Theory indicates a cap...

Jon Scholey is Professor of Cell Biology at the University of California, Davis, where he studies molecular motors, microtubule-based motility and protein machines. His current research focuses on intraflagellar transport and cilium biogenesis, the assembly and function of the mitotic spindle, and (with mathematician Alex Mogilner) the quantitative modeling of mitosis and motility. He teaches a...

Jonathan Hodgkin graduated from Oxford in 1971 and then did a PhD with Sydney Brenner at MRC LMB in Cambridge, studying behavioural genetics in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Later, after a couple of years working with myxobacteria as a postdoc in Dale Kaiser's lab at Stanford, he returned to LMB as a staff member, where he remained for most of the subsequent two decades. In the year 2000...