Hogness at one hundred

Abstract

During his remarkable scientific career, David S. Hogness transformed the molecular analysis of genes, genomes, and animal development. Hogness was born 1 century ago this month, on November 17, 1925. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, we would like to share an autobiographical account that Hogness wrote in 1992, 7 years before he retired.

Keywords: Drosophila; Escherichia coli; lac operon; chromosome walking; development; genomics; homeotic genes; lambda phage; molecular genetics.

Fig. 1.

(Top) Group photograph of participants at “From Phage to Flies: Forty Years of Discovery”, a symposium held in October 1995 in honor of Dave Hogness' seventieth birthday. (Bottom) Key to participants' names. Dave and Judy Hogness are seated near the center of the front row. Row 1: (sitting on ground): 1. Anne Villeneuve, 2. Stuart Kim, 3. Jesse Kim, 4. Michael Bender, 5. Liz Gavis, 6. Steve Helfand, 7. Dave Hogness, 8. Judy Hogness, 9. Howard Lipshitz, 10. Ken Burtis; Row 2: 11. Scot Munroe, 12. Karen Telander-Muskavitch, 13. Fotis Kafatos, 14. Mariana Wolfner, 15. Annamaria Torriani-Gorini, 16. Mike Koelle, 17. Lynn Riddiford, 18. Ken Irvine, 19. Michael Grunstein, 20. Sanjay Jha, 21. Carl Thummel, 22. Shige Sakonju, 23. Mark Krasnow; Row 3: 24. Walter Gehring, 25. Fred Schachat, 26. Marc Telander Muskavitch, 27. Jim Champoux, 28. Peter Harte, 29. Rob Saint, 30. Michael Ashburner, 31. Elliot Meyerowitz, 32. George Ordal, 33. Toshi Watanabe, 34. Jim Truman, 35. Pat Hurban, 36. John Lis, 37. Mel Cohn; Row 5: (standing): 38. Jeremy Nathans, 39. Dan Garza, 40. Kerry Kornfeld, 41. Rick Lifton, 42. Phil Beachy, 43. Mike Young, 44. David Kingsley, 45. John Hiebert, 46. Walter Doerfler, 47. Carl Parker, 48. Alfred Tissieres, 49. David Glover, 50. Anne Baldwin, 51. Will Talbot, 52. Richard Mann, 53. Suzanne Bourgeois, 54. Buzz Baldwin, 55. Farhad Imam, 56. Michelle Arbeitman, 57. Steve Stowers, 58. John Carlson, 59. Popi Artavantis-Tsakonas (partly hidden), 60. Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, 61. Mark Pearson, 62. Kathy Pearson, 63. Kevin White, 64. Barbara Hobom, 65. Gerd Hobom, 66. Gerry Rubin, and 67. David Finnegan. Photograph and caption information from Hogness papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries.