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George Streisinger
Pages 353-362

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From page 353...
... During the infancy of molecular biology, he provicied crucial links between genetics and biochemistry with his demonstration of the consequences of frameshift mutations. He identifier!
From page 354...
... They inclucle Sidney Brenner, Seymour Benzer, Matt Meselson, Robert Edgar, Jan Drake, and myself. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY George was one of many who usecl the Tow-cost School of Agriculture at Ithaca to gain access to a high-quality Cornell University undergracluate education.
From page 355...
... , George showed that the known genetic markers of T4 could be arrayed on a single linkage group. This simplification of the previously held view of three linkage groups was an essential step in the coalescence of genetics with emerging physical data on T4 DNA.
From page 356...
... The third application of George's mastery of the e gene was an analysis of the roles played by amino acid sequence in determining protein stability. In 1992, impelled by the methods of modern genetics, this work remains a major activity of several chemists and physicists at Eugene who study protein folding as well as stability.
From page 357...
... , George developed the methods for the mutation en cl genetic analysis of zebra fish (1981;1983,l,21. It was his aim to make the fish as tractable as phage so that it could be used for a genetic analysis of the vertebrate nervous system.
From page 358...
... He spent a major part of his first two years in Eugene organizing grass-roots resistance to the Vietnam War and legislative opposition to John Kennecly's civil defense program. He played a central role in the successful effort to restrict the use of potentially mutagenic herbicides in Douglas fir reforestation.
From page 359...
... George's impact on his colleagues in the Institute of Molecular Biology has been marked by an annual lecture, quickly recognized as both a scientific and a social highlight of our community. LOTTE STRElSINGER AND AARON NOVICK made important contributions to this memorial.
From page 360...
... Experiments on sexual isolation in Drosophila II. Geographic strains of Drosophila prosaltans.
From page 361...
... 131:60-69. (In the publication, this work, which was performed at the University of Oregon's Institute of Molecular Biology, is unaccountably attributed to the University of Utah School of Medicine.)


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