Reflections on contributing to “big discoveries” about the fly clock: Our fortunate paths as post-docs with 2017 Nobel laureates Jeff Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Mike Young
In the early 1980s Jeff Hall and Michael Rosbash at Brandeis University and Mike Young at Rockefeller University set out to isolate the period (per) gene, which was recovered in a revolutionary genetic screen by Ron Konopka and Seymour Benzer for mutants that altered circadian behavioral rhythms. Ov...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2018-06-01
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Series: | Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245199441830004X |