Shelley L. Berger University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA Corresponding author: bergerspennmedicine.upenn.edu

It is an immense pleasure to write about Dr. Terri Grodzicker as a tremendous advocate for cutting-edge research and for scientific interactions, and how she expanded her influence following a distinguished research career. My view is that Terri has been a leader worldwide to promote scientific discourse in her second career combining her roles as Editor of Genes & Development and leading Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to launch and sustain superb conferences and symposia. Moreover, she has served the field as a well-known raconteur, amusing us with her fabulous stories as a participant and observer during the explosion of molecular biology, not to mention her hilarious accounts of the foibles of leading lights of the field.

I came to know Terri in her role as Editor of G&D, the first CSHL journal. I will note that junior investigators find it notoriously difficult to get the attention of …