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Volume 21, Number 8
15 April 2002

pp 1881-2053

Cover. A photograph of the extremely rare Aukland Island snipe. Because it can hardly fly it is extremely vulnerable to introduced predators such as cats and rats, and only a few tens of this bird still survive in the wild. The photograph was taken by Professor Ben de Kruijff during a birdwatching expedition to the subantarctic islands of New Zealand and Australia in December 1998. Professor de Kruijff is presently head of the Department of Biochemistry of Membranes at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. His general research interest is structure--function relationships in biological membranes with special emphasis on lipid--protein interactions, lipid transport and polymorphism, and the mode of action of membrane-active drugs and toxins.

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