Very, very sad to hear that Gernot passed away. He was a great scientist,
always happy to help out with questions concerning genomics and more, and
he was a very kind and nice person. He will be missed.

Fredrik
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Fredrik Söderbom, PhD
Professor of Biology/Microbiology
Head of the Microbiology Programme
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology
Uppsala University
Biomedical Center (BMC)
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Sweden
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On 2020-09-07 12:27, "DICTY on behalf of Ludwig Eichinger"
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>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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>Centre for Biochemistry
>Medical Faculty
>University of Cologne
>Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 52
>D-50931 Koeln
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