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COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY - PART D: GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS
       
Part D: Genomics and Proteomics. This section covers the broader comprehensive approaches to comparative biochemistry and physiology that can be generally termed as " -omics", e.g., genomics, functional genomics (transcriptomics), proteomics, metabolomics, and underlying bioinformatics. Papers dealing with fundamental aspects and hypotheses in comparative physiology and biochemistry are encouraged rather than studies whose main focus is purely technical or methodological

BOUTILIER, ROBERT (1954-2003) - Developmental Physiology  notes with great sorrow the passing of Bob Boutilier on Sunday, Dec. 21st, 2003.    The following is an obituary from the Halifax Herald, published on Friday, December 26, 2003.   

BOUTILIER, Robert Graeme -BSCH 1976 Acadia, M.Sc. 1978 Acadia, Ph.D. 1981 UEA, England, FRSC 2000 Canada, D.Sc. 1996 Acadia, 50 years old, formerly from Nova Scotia, died in Addenbrooke's NHS Trust Hospital, Cambridge, England. He was a son of the late Robert Boutilier. Bob "Boots" to many took his undergraduate honours degree and masters at Acadia University, where he made many friends, and became part of the Acadia family. He went on to take his Ph.D. in England and then to do postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, the Gulbenkian Institute in Portugal, a research station in Tahiti and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His first permanent position was as an assistant professor in biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and was later head of that department. Bob was then drawn back to England where he became the editor of the Journal of Experimental Biology and Senior Reader in the Zoology Department at the University of Cambridge. He was also a well-loved fellow of Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge, where he was a tutor and dean of students. Bob was without question a consummate scientist, friend and teacher of those who had the privilege of touching his presence. He had a wonderful gift of telling stories, of making music and of making people laugh. He fought hard but in the end his body failed him at too young an age. He is survived by his mother, Anne; sister, Brenda and her husband Mark; several nieces and nephews; plus a myriad of friends who came in contact with his humorous, effervescent personality over the years. He will be missed as no other. He was predeceased by his sister, Beverely and her husband Donald. A funeral will take place in Cambridge. A memorial service will take place at Acadia University at a later date.

RESTORING PHYSIOLOGY TO THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS BIOLOGY CURRICULUM:  A CALL FOR  ACTION.  The National Research Council-sponsored report, BIO 2010:  Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists, describes a number of significant changes that should be made to the undergraduate biology curriculum if we are able to adequately train students to become the researchers of the 21st century.  What should be of concern to the physiology community is the lack of identifiable physiology in the proposed revisions.  In the article, Dee Silverthorn, describes the report and suggests some steps that physiologists can take to enhance our discipline in the undergraduate biology curriculum.  Advan. Physiol. Edu. 27:  91-96, 2003.  Http://advan.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/27/3/91