The science pages include all the typical things scientists usually have on their research websites (details about their lab, books, publications, collaborators, etc). These pages cover my work in academia as a university professor and some of the applied spinoffs. The pathology pages are less academic. While they include my work in private pathology and medical-related publications, they also include my views on healthcare (particularly in South Africa, but also worldwide) and some of my public engagements (podcasts, newsletters, etc).
 

Pierre M. Durand

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Pierre Durand 

Evolutionary developmental biology. Problem of the evolutionary reorganizations of ontogeny in the algal genus Volvox and other groups of organisms. Evolutionary ecology of Volvox and related coenobial volvocine algae. Comparative embryology of amphibians (frogs, toads and salamanders). Cell cycles and cell differentiation during early amphibian development.

A. Desnitskiy

St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Alexey Desnitskiy 

Most recently my laboratory has examined the nature, quantity and mode of distribution of DNA genomes of mitochondria and plastids. The second area of laboratory concentration concerns the species problem, how separate species evolve. The work examines particular species and genera of the volvocales, freshwater green algae, brown algae, and abalones, and the analysis includes mating compatibility, chromosome number, and DNA relatedness as determined by sequencing.

AW Coleman

Brown University, USA

Annette W. Coleman 

Graham Arthur Charlton Bell, born 3 March 1949 at Leicester, England.  Educated at Ingle Street Primary School and the Wyggeston School, Leicester. Attended Oxford University (BA Hons 1970, D Phil 1974).  Married Susan Eva Rosinger 6 February 1971. Three children: Matthew (born 1975), Thomas (born 1977), and Nicholas (born 1979).  Emigrated to Canada October 1975.

Visit Graham Lab

McGill University, Canada

Graham AC Bell

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga whose lineage diverged from land plants over 1 billion years ago. It is a model system for studying chloroplast-based photosynthesis, as well as the structure, assembly, and function of eukaryotic flagella (cilia), which were inherited from the common ancestor of plants and animals, but lost in land plants. We sequenced the ∼120-megabase nuclear genome of Chlamydomonas and performed comparative phylogenomic analyses, identifying genes encoding uncharacterized proteins that are likely associated with the function and biogenesis of chloroplasts or eukaryotic flagella. Analyses of the Chlamydomonas genome advance our understanding of the ancestral eukaryotic cell, reveal previously unknown genes associated with photosynthetic and flagellar functions, and establish links between ciliopathy and the composition and function of flagella.