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Ability to effectively communicate one's research is a vital and highly transferable skill. It is therefore important that young scientists have opportunities to present their doctoral research to large general audiences.
Did the main features of eukaryotes, including endocytosis, develop before the adoption of endosymbionts? Or was their evolution triggered by an interaction between two typical prokaryotic cells, one of which became the host and the other the endosymbiont? Christian de Duve re-examines this important question in the light of cell-biological and phylogenetic data.
The first conference on genetics was held by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1906. A close examination of how this event was organized and how genetic research was done at that time reveals many surprisingly familiar themes.
