i am traveling so this will be brief,
but Maurice's "the best salesman ever" story in his talk at a Keystone
symposium cannot be topped.
if you will be in Tucson and have never heard it, i shall be happy to
share over a beer and a toast to Bill too.
alan kimmel
> I read his papers forwards, backwards and sideways when I started in
> Dicty. He really set the questions for the next generation.
>
> Met him at the Sardinia meeting of fond memory. Two jokes (others
> doubtless have much better):
> SUSSPERSON - his self-renaming in response to what he saw as excessive
> political correctness
> GOOD MORNING! (Loud voice) - greeting for people hoping to sneak unnoticed
> into his talk, after a very severe night before
>
> I hope they still make them like that!
> Rob
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 13 Jul 2016, at 13:50, Alexander., Stephen <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Dictyostelium colleagues,
>>
>> We would like to inform you that Maurice Sussman passed away yesterday
>> at the age of 94. He retired in 1987 so many of you probably never got
>> to meet him. Maurice and his wife Raquel are responsible to a large
>> degree for bringing Dictyostelium into the molecular genetic age. Among
>> other things, they were the first to clone cells, establish conditions
>> for synchronous development, develop axenic medium and isolate the first
>> axenic strain, select mutants, analyze the DNA, and do parasexual
>> genetics. We take this all for granted today.
>>
>> They and their students and post-docs (Bill Loomis, Peter Newell, and
>> Jakob Franke) were the first to demonstrate the idea of quantitative
>> developmental programs of gene expression by the elegant measurement of
>> enzymes in synchronously developing cells. This idea of the
>> “developmental program” is now one of the central ideas in biology.
>> Maurice wrote one of the first books on developmental biology –
>> “Growth and Development” (Prentice Hall, 1960) which had a large
>> influence on this (then) new field of biology. His last paper on the
>> cultivation of D. discoideum in Methods in Cell Biology (1987) is still
>> frequently referenced. The Sussmans never had a big lab, but their
>> output had a great intellectual impact and has been lasting.
>>
>> Maurice served in the United States Army in World War ll in Europe and
>> the South Pacific. Maurice and Raquel were the Ph.D. students of the
>> microbiologist Sol Spiegelman. They subsequently worked at
>> Northwestern, Brandeis University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
>> and the University of Pittsburgh. They have three sons – Paul,
>> Michael ([log in to unmask]) and Daniel.
>>
>> Maurice’s huge personality filled every room he walked into. He was
>> very funny. Most importantly he was immensely creative and intensely
>> rigorous about the quality of science.
>>
>> Steve Alexander, Herb Ennis, Jakob Franke, and Hannah Alexander
>>
>>
>> Stephen Alexander, Ph.D.
>> Division of Biological Sciences
>> 303 Tucker Hall
>> University of Missouri
>> Columbia, MO 65211
>>
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>> lab website
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