This year’s Departmental Seminar Day saw the department come together for its annual gathering to showcase its research on 22nd March 2019. Short talks were given from across the broad range of subjects currently researched in the department. The talks provide an opportunity for researchers, from all levels, to highlight...

γ-Tubulin Ring Complex Heterogeneity Revealed by Analysis of Mozart1 Regulating the formation of new microtubules in both space and time is critical for a wide variety of cell processes and is mediated in part by the recruitment of γ-tubulin ring complexes (γ-TuRCs) to specific microtubule organising centres (MTOCs). This...

Cells are polarised in the plane of the sheet and this shows when they make oriented structures such as cilia or hairs. The literature in this small field is so inconclusive and complex that most are put off from reading it. Dr Peter Lawrence and Dr José Casal have written a "primer" to explain the elegant and simple...

This new volume in the Handbook of Zoology series provides up-to-date reviews of mammalian evolution, phylogenetics, and molecular biology and will be essential reading for mammalogists, zoologists and conservationists alike. The volume, edited by Frank E. Zachos, of the Natural History Museum Vienna, and our own Robert...