Actin pushes in bizarre places

Lewis Tilney has always had a gift for looking for biology in strange places. His publishing history, he says, reads like a “Rogue's gallery” of plants, fungi, parasites, and plenty of unusual invertebrate creatures. “It's just ridiculous, and nowadays I couldn't get away with it.” His colleagues say it is part of his genius to look in unusual systems to answer fundamental biology questions, but Tilney shrugs off that idea.