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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Ludwig Eichinger
Centre for Biochemistry
Medical Faculty
University of Cologne
Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 52
D-50931 Koeln

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