In Remembrance: Norton B. Gilula (1944-2000)
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Five years later, Bernie and his family moved to La after a year-long struggle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Jolla, not only to continue his prolific scientific career To me, he was not only a much admired colleague, at TSRI, but to assume important leadership positions esteemed scientist, broad-ranging intellectual, and vi-that would leave an indelible mark on the quality and sionary educator; for many years, he was my dear friend. character of the Institute. His voracious appetite for Dedicated, complicated, compassionate, humorous, knowledge and discovery, his keen and discerning eye brilliant, and gracious, there have been many Gilulas for good science, and his overarching desire to teach and we will miss them all in a profound way for years and mentor enabled him to develop a superb cadre to come. of young scientists who formed the core of the new W. H. Auden said the following on the death of T. S. To me the proof of a man's goodness is the effect As a PhD student at U. C. Berkeley, he studied inverte-he has upon others. " That sentiment sums up the es-brate gap junctions with Peter Satir, Dan Branton, and sence of Bernie in my mind. He was always more con-Daniel Mazia, and realized their importance in providing cerned about your well being than his own, making sure a pathway for the transfer of information between cells. that your needs were attended to, your issues were Using cell biological and genetic methods, one of his aired, your problems were solved. Until his last days, early fundamental contributions was to demonstrate he was fully engaged in the scientific enterprise, often that the gap junction provides the pathway for cell-to-coming into the lab or the office straight from a chemo-cell communication of molecular information in the form therapy treatment at the hospital. One of the things I of inorganic ions and metabolites. Subsequently, using most admired about Bernie was his unwavering resolve a coculture system, he and his colleagues extended to keep doing what he loved best: helping people, men-these studies to demonstrate that gap junctional com-toring students, and solving scientific problems. munication can be used to transmit biologically impor-Bernie was a well known and highly regarded cell tant molecules, such as cyclic nucleotides, between biologist with a multifaceted professional career. In cells. March, 2000, he was appointed Vice President of Scien-In parallel with these studies, using EM measurement tific Affairs …
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cell
دوره 103 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000