Dear All,
This is a great shock and sadness to me and several of my team. We have collaborated with Gernot for many years on the sequencing of genomes in Dictyostelia and other Amoebozoa and this has been  one of the most enjoyable collaborations in my professional life. Gernot was the ultimate professional, interested in the deeper scientific questions and implications, doing research at the highest achievable standard and with an immense ability and capacity to get large and difficult projects done. Ours and several other fields owe him the well-assembled and annotated genomes that have become the essential backbones of our work.
Gernot was a kind and giving collaborator on whose reliability, honesty and assistance we could always depend. We will miss him greatly.

 Pauline


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From: DICTY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ludwig Eichinger
Sent: 07 September 2020 11:28
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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


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