Obituary: Edward B. Goldberg

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...

Profile of Robert B. Goldberg.

O ver the next 50 years, as Earth’s population races toward 9 billion inhabitants, we will need to produce more food than we have produced since the advent of agriculture 10,000 years ago (1). This challenge, warns National Academy of Sciences member Robert Goldberg, is particularly daunting given the finite and shrinking amount of arable land on which food crops can be grown. Increasing the yi...

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Obituary: Dr. Robert B. Barlow 1939–2009

A star in the vision community was lost with the untimely death of our good friend and colleague, Robert Barlow. Bob succumbed on December 24th, at age 70, after a short bout with acute leukemia. Our sincere condolences are extended to his wife Pat, their three children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, as well as to his brother James and sister Margaret. Bob’s rise to preeminen...

Edward B. Lewis (1918-2004)

Edward B. Lewis [4] studied embryonic development in Drosophila [5], including the discovery of the cis-trans test [6] for recessive genes [7], and the identification of the bithorax complex [8] and its role in development in Drosophila [5]. He shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [9] with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard [10] and Eric F. Wieschaus for work on genetic control of ear...