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. 2022 Nov;28(11):1393-1429.
doi: 10.1261/rna.079397.122. Epub 2022 Sep 16.

Tribute to Sidney Altman

Venkat Gopalan, Timothy Nilsen, Venkat Gopalan, Ann M Altman, Benjamin C Stark, Sheldon I Feinstein, Ray Koski, Cristina Mickiewicz, Ben Stark  1 , Peter Gegenheimer, Leif A Kirsebom, John George Arnez, Anthony C Forster, Sergei A Kazakov, Yan Yuan, Fenyong Liu, Nayef Jarrous, Li Yang  2 , Ge Jiang  3 , Taijiao Jiang  4 , Joel L Rosenbaum, George Miller, Daniel DiMaio, John R Carlson, William H McClain, Michael B Mathews, Raymond Kaempfer, Murray P Deutscher, Ling-Ling Chen, Yong Li  5 , Enduo Wang  6 , Olga Patutina, Marina Zenkova, Valentin Vlassov, Julius B Lucks  7 , Venkat Gopalan  8
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Tribute to Sidney Altman

Venkat Gopalan et al. RNA. 2022 Nov.
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Figures

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(Left) Press conference at the Kline Biology Tower, Yale University, on October 12, 1989, following the announcement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (Left to right) Donna Wesolowski, Heidi Gold, Cecilia Guerrier-Takada, Sidney Altman, Ania Knapp, Karen Peck-Miller, and Nadya Lumelsky. (Right) Some alumni members of the Altman Laboratory gathered in New Haven to commemorate Sid's 60th birthday (August 1999). The flags of countries of the participants were placed at the podium. The international makeup of his team was a great source of pride for Sid.
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Wedding photo, Sidney and Ann Altman, 1972.
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(Left) The Altman lab in 1974. Seated left to right: Cris Mickiewicz, Lois Atkins, Sheldon Feinstein, Rick Garber, Ray Koski, Ginger Warner, and Paolo Arcari. Standing left to right: Al Bothwell, Frank Costantini, Sid, me, and Bob Geggle. (Right) A letter sent to me by Sid from Bristol, England in 1978.
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Photo courtesy of Cristina Mickiewicz.
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Sid at the doorsteps of the museum in Athens in June 2008.
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Sid at 60 with me at his residence in Hamden, CT, during the Altman lab reunion of August 1999.
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Sid Altman and the author at a lab meeting in 804 Kline Biology Tower, Yale University (May 1990). This conference room was used for different meetings (until the mid-1990s) and located two doors from Sid's office.
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(Left) Pew Scholar Meeting, Mexico, March 2002. (Right) Lab reunion and 80th birthday celebration with family, colleagues, and former students, Yale University, June 2019.
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Photos of Sid with the authors. (Left) Sid and Ge during a press interview in the lab at Yale University in 2003. (Middle) Sid and Taijiao during Sid's visit to Beijing in 2006. (Right) Sid and Li during a lab reunion in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University in 2015.
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Sid Altman telling the author to take it easy after he paid Sid a compliment at the 2016 Symposium at Yale that was held to commemorate Sid's retirement.
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Beginning and end of a letter from Sid, written in 1984, demonstrating his commitment to providing strong support to a new junior faculty member.
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(Left) Yale Press Conference, October 12, 1989. (Right) Relaxing in Stockholm, December 9, 1989, “YALE IS A GREAT PLACE FOR RESEARCH.”
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Sidney Altman with Raymond Kaempfer in April 2008 at the Yale Club in New York.
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A photo from the Sidney Altman Symposium, Yale University, March 24, 2016. Front row (left to right): Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, Matthew Meselson, Sidney Altman, Daniel DiMaio, and William McClain. Back row (left to right): Ling-Ling Chen (the author), Ronald Breaker, Thomas Maniatis, Roger Kornberg, and Mark Ptashne.
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(Left) Dr. Sidney Altman's visit to Shanghai in 2007. (Left to right) Drs. Mofang Liu, Enduo Wang, and Altman. (Photo courtesy of Enduo Wang.) (Right) Sid Altman and Yong Li at Hamden, Connecticut (2017).
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Russian-American Laboratory, headed by Sidney Altman. House of Scientists, Academgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia, 2014.
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References

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    1. Stark BC, Kole R, Bowman EJ, Altman S. 1978. Ribonuclease P: an enzyme with an essential RNA component. Proc Natl Acad Sci 75: 3717–3721. 10.1073/Pnas.75.8.3717 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
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