The latest issue of EurAmerica (Vol. 39, Number 2/June 2009) is now available in print and on our website. 

Title: Tales of Membrane Deformation and Impossibly Small Holes - Applications of CryoEM in Membrane Biology
Speaker: Associate Prof.Vinzenz Unger
(Yale University)
Time: 11:00 am, July 7, 2009 (Tuesday)
Venue: B1 Auditorium, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica 

Date: July 7-8, 2009 (Tuesday to Wednesday)

Venue: Room 2319, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

Organizing Institution: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

*BBC feature on the research of Dr. Hong Young Yan, Research Fellow of Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology.

Octopus and squid can hear.

The discovery resolves a century-long debate over whether cephalopods, the group of sea creatures that includes octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses, can hear sounds underwater.

Compared to fish, octopus and squid do not appear to hear particularly well.

But the fact they can hear raises the possibility that these intelligent animals may use sound to catch prey, communicate with one another or listen out for predators.