Letters to the Editor [Essays]

James T. Kadonaga Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA Corresponding author: jkadonagaucsd.edu

Dear Terri, it is a very special privilege and honor for me to write this note of thanks for your lasting and impactful contribution to the advancement of science through your 35 yr of service as the Editor of Genes & Development (which we all refer to, of course, as “G&D”). Under your leadership, G&D quickly and very impressively rose to the top tier of journals in the biological sciences, and it has published countless landmark papers. I am very fortunate to be a coauthor on 28 G&D papers, which include a nice body of work on the RNA polymerase II core promoter as well as advances in diverse areas of chromatin dynamics and transcription. I was also very fortunate to have served on the G&D Editorial Board for 13 years (1994–2007). In that capacity, I even had the questionable distinction of being the person who reviewed the most papers for G&D in one particular year.

Key components of your success include your keen intellect, judgment, humility, integrity, vision, sense of humor, and appreciation of aesthetics. I have always felt good about submitting papers to G&D because I have confidence in you as a scientist, as an Editor, and as a person.

In the spirit of a tribute to you and your work, I will use (or, perhaps more accurately, exploit) this unique opportunity to write two unconventional …

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