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 Gavin Borden Visiting
Fellow
 The Gavin Borden
Visiting Fellow pays tribute to the late Gavin
Borden, founder of Garland Publishing. Included in
Garland's list are textbooks for graduate students,
the most successful of which is the popular Molecular
Biology of the Cell by Alberts et al. The Borden
Fellow is chosen each year by our graduate students,
and speaks to and visits with the students and staff.
This year's Visiting Fellow was Martin Raff, an
author of MBC and professor of biology at the
University College of London. He opened his talk with
warm reflections on time spent with Gavin Borden, who
died most prematurely at only 52 years of age, then
went on to offer an eloquent discussion of the
control of cell numbers during development. Using the
central nervous system as an example, glial cells
specifically, Raff explored the many components that
must be in place for proper control of cell division
and differentiation. The evening lecture was followed
by a dinner in the Clarkson dining room. The
following day, Dr. Raff met in seminar with the
graduate students.
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