Seven Theorems of Joseph G. Gall

Ji-Long Liu

doi:10.1016/j.yexcr.2024.114343

Seven Theorems of Joseph G. Gall

Exp Cell Res. 2024 Nov 19;444(1):114343. doi: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2024.114343. Online ahead of print.

Author

Ji-Long Liu¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China; Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK. Electronic address: liujl3@shanghaitech.edu.cn.

PMID: 39566878
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2024.114343

Abstract

On June 30, 2020, Professor Joseph Grafton Gall announced his retirement at 92. On August 13, 2020, Joe's former trainees and colleagues held a retirement celebration online to celebrate Joe's "Remarkable Career with Astonishing Discoveries", covering Joe's nearly 70 years of education and research. As a representative of Joe's trainees in the 2000s, I gave a speech titled "Seven Theorems of Joe". On September 12, 2024, Joe passed away peacefully, at 96. In memoriam, here I expand and update my previous speech and explain the "Seven Theorems of Joseph G. Gall", a scientists' scientist.

Keywords: Amphibian; Cajal body; Coilin; Drosophila; Germinal vesicle; Histone locus body; Lampbrush chromosome; Oocyte; RNA biology; Sperm; Xenopus.