How do wealthy parents help their offspring? By giving them ribosomes!
Optimal ribosome provisioning is key to fast development in unpredictable environments. The fastest path to ribosomal wealth in nematodes is a maternal inheritance.
Happy we could play a small part in this fascinating work.
And of course, I remember his kindness of taking me on as a clueless engineering student and getting me a start in genetics. I only worked with him for a year, more than twenty years ago, but I still think about things he said.
David Botstein, 1942 - 2026.
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David was super smart and super direct, with a insistence on clear thinking that permeated everything he did. He could speak about "big picture" dynamical properties of cells, but he also had an encyclopedic memory-- ask him about any yeast gene and he'd tell you about it in fascinating detail.
Very cool!
hoping to learn what all the excitement was about, at the new genomics institute they'd just built on campus. I cold-emailed David looking for work, and a week later I was sitting in his office, learning about the principles of chemostats. I think I still have the little notebook drawing he made.
