Fritz Stern (1926- 2016)

1926-2016: 90 Years of listeriology.

ISOPOL - for "International Symposium on Problems of Listeria and Listeriosis" - meetings gather every three years since 1957 participants from all over the world and allow exchange and update on a wide array of topics concerning Listeria and listeriosis, ranging from epidemiology, diagnostic and typing methods, to genomics, post-genomics, fundamental microbiology, cell biology and pathogenesis...

In Memoriam: Chittoor V. Ramamoorthy, PhD 1926-2016

Professor Adriana Fiorentini: 1/11/1926–29/2/2016

Adriana Fiorentini was for many decades a pillar of the CNR Institute for Neurophysiology (then Neuroscience). On February 29, 2016, she passed away peacefully in her sleep, with a smile. A whole generation of vision scientists remembers her with love and respect. Her wisdom, intelligence, dedication to science, enthusiasm for research, and love of knowledge set an example to us all. She was a ...

A legend in thoracic surgery: F. Griffith Pearson, MD, 1926-2016.

From the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Disclosures: Author has nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support. Received for publication Oct 26, 2016; accepted for publication Oct 26, 2016. Address for reprints: Shaf Keshavjee,MD, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, 190 Elizabeth 8 St, RFE 1...

2016 Curt Stern Award Address: From Rare to Common Diseases: Translating Genetic Discovery to Therapy.

Receiving the Curt Stern Award and being introduced by mymentor, colleague, and friend Art Beaudet are the greatest honors I could imagine. I attended my first ASHG meeting in 1991, and ASHG is the scientific community in which I grew up. I remember the excitement of discovery atmy firstmeeting because I was a graduate student hot on the trail of cloning the gene for Marfan syndrome, so it is s...