...I am shocked. He was a bottomless source of knowledge and a indeed
wonderful person. Sincere condolences to his family and colleagues.
All the best, Ralph
Am 07.09.20 um 12:27 schrieb Ludwig Eichinger:
> Dear Dicty community,
>
> we are very sad that our friend and colleague Gernot Gloeckner passed
> away last week on September 3rd. Gernot leaves behind a wife and two
> children.
>
> In his early career Gernot worked on sexual differentiation of
> Chlamydomonas at the University Freiburg. In the mid-nineties of the
> last century he joined the IMB Jena, at that time the largest genome
> sequencing center in Germany, and became a "genome" scientist. He was
> involved in a number of genome sequencing projects, among them the
> human genome project. Most importantly for our community he was one of
> the driving forces of the Dictyostelium Genome project. After
> publication of the Dictyostelium genome in 2005, he was also leading a
> Dictyostelid comparative sequencing project in Germany. He was
> essential for all our efforts in these projects. In the last decade at
> the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in
> Berlin and at the Institute for Biochemistry I in Cologne he was,
> apart from being involved in several more sequencing projects, mainly
> interested in evolutionary aspects of amoebozoa and in evolution and
> ecology of marine kelp. Gernot is author on more than 100
> publications, many of them in very prestigious journals.
>
> In his free time Gernot loved sailing and hiking.
>
> We lost a dedicated scientist and wonderful person.
>
> Ludwig and Angelika
>
>
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