Terri and G&D: celebrating 50 years of enlightened scientific judgment [Essays]

Robert Tjian Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Corresponding author: jmlimberkeley.edu

It is difficult to imagine the scientific publishing landscape without Terri Grodzicker at the helm of Genes & Development. Here we celebrate over 50 years of Terri's many accomplishments and awesome staying power, first as a bench scientist with a stellar decades-long career in molecular genetics in Boston and Cold Spring Harbor, and then as Editor of G&D since 1989—where did the time go?

My high regard for Terri dates back to my very first weeks at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1976, where I, as a newly minted PhD trained in bacterial and phage biochemistry, was attempting to do mammalian tissue culture. With firm but gentle guidance from Terri, I finally managed after some weeks not to contaminate CV1 monkey cells with bacteria (we think the culprit was Bacillus subtilis spores hitching a ride on my clothes). Terri and I became lifelong friends, colleagues, and collaborators, and eventually comentors of graduate students after I moved to Berkeley for my first and only faculty position. In those 3 years at CSHL, I came to appreciate Terri's exacting scientific standards, her exceptional ability to consistently formulate the original ideas that guided her own work, and her capacity to perceive the significance of discoveries by others. For as long as I have known her, and in the many contexts I have seen her operate, I have been struck by the high quality of her work and character.

By the mid to late 1980s, with rapid advances unraveling various aspects of gene regulation and developmental biology enabled by the latest tools of recombinant DNA, molecular cloning, protein purification, and genome sequencing, scientific publication was entering a period of unprecedented growth. The journal Cell under Ben Lewin had transformed publication of molecular biology and biochemistry, and meanwhile the world of biology was being …

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