2013 Curt Stern Award Address1

2003 Curt Stern Award address. On low expectation exceeded; or, the genomic salvation of the Y chromosome.

Receiving the Curt Stern Award makes me think of the year 1956, when Stern, an extraordinaryDrosophila geneticist with broad-ranging interests, becamepresident of the American Society of Human Genetics. It’s also the year I was born. During the first year of my life, Stern presided over the Society’s 10th annual meeting, in Ann Arbor. There, he delivered a presidential address entitled “On porc...

2015 Curt Stern Award.

Thank you, Elaine, for that wonderful introduction and for all the support from the beginning of my faculty career. It’s a tremendous honor to be recognized with the Curt Stern Award by the ASHG, and I’d like to express my gratitude to the Awards Committee for this recognition. An award is really invested with meaning by its past recipients, and I encourage you to take a look at the list of pas...

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...

Richard Benedict Goldschmidt

Curt Stern on Somatic Crossing Over.

In the mid-1930s, Curt Stern was investigating why certain Drosophila mutants develop mosaic patches with different body bristle phenotypes, when he noticed a recurring pattern. In one particular cross, the offspring sometimes carried areas with one recessive phenotype (yellowish-brownish bristles) immediately adjacent to a sector showing a second recessive phenotype (gnarled bristles, known as...