Obituary: Alan Jones (1933–2021)

OBITUARY In memoriam – Alan Hall

OnMay3 of this year, cell biology lost a giantwith the untimely passing of Alan Hall (Fig. 1). Alan didn’t discover the Rho family of GTPases but, more than anyone else, he and his laboratory brought these key regulatory proteins to the prominent position that they now occupy. I first met Alan in the early 1990s shortly after his landmark papers with Anne Ridley were published (Ridley and Hall,...

Obituary: Roger Alan Brumback, MD (1948-2013).

Summarizing someone’s life work and achievements can be relatively straightforward, even for an individual as prolific as Roger Brumback. Placing their accomplishments into perspective and highlighting what is most meaningful among a lifetime of notable achievements are much more challenging tasks. Making sense of the terrible tragedy of 2 productive lives cut short, on the other hand, is impos...

Goodbye Ted (An Obituary for Edward G. Jones)

the discipline, characterized by the use of axonal transport tracers. He became a true master of electron microscopy and of the immunocytochemical techniques required to visualize neurotransmitters and their receptors, and moved on to new techniques to study the expression of specific genes and transcription factors. Ted was always capable of using the newest tools to study his two preferred br...

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