Jacques Neirynck 2009 Jacques Neirynck and I arrived in Lausanne at about the same time, respectively in 1972 and 1973, he at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and I at the Faculty of Medicine of Lausanne University. I was there to teach anatomy and carry out research on the brain.

Ernesto Carafoli · Gian Antonio Danieli Giuseppe O. Longo Editors 2009 The phrase “The Two Cultures” was used by Charles Percy Snow in the title of his 1959 Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge: although he had already used it in an article he had published three years earlier in The New Statesman, it was the Rede […]

Juan G. Roederer 2009 An Introduction This introductory text deals with the physical systems and biological processes that intervene in what we broadly call “music.” We shall analyze what objective, physical properties of sound patterns are associated with what subjective, psychological sensations of music. We shall describe how these sound patterns are actually produced in musical instruments, how they […]

Brian K. Hall 2009 Knowledge of the development and evolution of the neural crest sheds light on many of the oldest questions in developmental and evolutionary biology. What is the role of germ layers in early embryogenesis? How does the nervous system develop? How does the vertebrate head arise developmentally, and how did it arise evolutionarily?

D. JAMES MORRÉ HILTON H. MOLLENHAUER 2009 The Golgi Apparatus: The First 100 Years traces the first 100 years of Golgi apparatus discovery from the first published accounts from Pavia, Italy in 1898 to the Centenary Celebration in Pavia, Italy in 1998 and into the decade beyond. It is not intended, however, to be a comprehensive survey but […]

Kum Kum Khanna · Yosef Shiloh Editors 2009 The field of cellular responses to DNA damage has attained widespread recognition and interest in recent years commensurate with its fundamental role in the maintenance of genomic stability. These responses, which are essential to preventing cellular death or malignant transformation, are organized into a sophisticated system designated the “DNA damage response”.

Vinagolu K. Rajasekhar Mohan C. Vemuri Editors 2009 Stem cells appear to be fundamental cellular units associated with the origin of multicellular organisms and have evolved to function in safeguarding the cellular homeostasis in organ tissues. The characteristics of stem cells that distinguish them from other cells have been the fascinating subjects of stem cell research.

A. Berthoz . Y. Christen Editors 2009 How Living Beings Perceive the World At the beginning of the 20th century, German biologist Jakob von Uexk¨ull created the concept of Umwelt to denote the environment as experienced by a subject. This concept of environment differs from the idea of passive surroundings and is defined not just by physical surroundings, […]

Aapo Hyvärinen Jarmo Hurri Patrik O. Hoyer 2009 This book is both an introductory textbook and a research monograph on modeling the statistical structure of natural images. In very simple terms, “natural images” are photographs of the typical environment where we live. In this book, their statistical structure is described using a number of statistical models whose parameters […]

Jan Verplaetse 2009