GERALD FINK
Retirement Symposium

 Welcome by

RUTH LEHMANN

   Director and President, Whitehead Institute   

Join us for a day of science, storytelling, and celebration as we honor Whitehead Institute
Founding Member and former Director Gerald Fink in recognition of his extraordinary
career and profound contributions to the scientific community.

SYMPOSIUM videos  

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SESSION I


SESSION I - Chair: Fred M. Winston


Molecular interactions between the sexes for optimal fertility (or, sometimes “his” doesn’t mean “histidine”)'
Mariana Wolfner, Fink Lab 1972 - 1974

Birth and rearing of the integrated stress response
Alan Hinnebusch, Fink Lab 1980 – 1983

A Trp from auxin to peroxisomes in Arabidopsis
Bonnie Bartel, Fink Lab 1991 - 1995

Using suppressors of insertion mutations to study eukaryotic transcription
Fred M. Winston, Fink Lab 1980 - 1983



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SESSION II


SESSION II - Chair: Jef Boeke, Fink Lab 1982


Unexpected biology of a pathogenic budding yeast
Hiten Madhani, Fink Lab 1995 - 1998

Inspiration from molecular genetics
David Pellman, Fink Lab 1988 - 1992 

Follow the science: From metabolism to an unexpected antifungal candidate
Mike C. Lorenz, Fink Lab 1998 - 2003

Scents and sensibility: Uncovering the biological basis of inherited learned behaviors
Reeta Prusty Rao, Fink Lab 1999 - 2005 

Scaling up DNA engineering from Ty1 to genes, pathways and genomes
Jef Boeke, Fink Lab 1982 - 1985
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SESSION III 


SESSION III - Chair: Mary Gehring


David Baltimore (Surprise speaker)

Harold Varmus

Gerry at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Bruce Stillman

Wisdom I Learned from Gerry Fink
Terry Orr-Weaver

Michael Rosbash
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SESSION IV 


SESSION IV - Chair: Peter W. Reddien
Susan Whitehead
Gerry and the Genome
Eric Lander
Randy Schekman
Gerald Fink

Closing

Sarah Williamson