Very sad news indeed. He was a quiet, kind and gentle person. I have warm memories being helped greatly by his precise comments and suggestions while genome sequencing. Sorry for his left families.

--
Hideko Urushihara
Emeritus Professor
University of |Tsukuba


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> From: Ludwig Eichinger <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: 2020/9/7, Mon 21:02
> Subject: [DICTY] Gernot Gloeckner
> 
> 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