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Honors & News
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April 4, 2012
10th Annual Fred Sherman Lecture Highlights Genetics Day 2012
Today, the department of Biomedical Genetics 24th Annual Genetics Day was highlighted by the 10th Annual Fred Sherman Lecture. Dr. Fred Sherman, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry & Biophysics has been honored for his contributions to Genetics and Yeast Genetics for the past nine years with a lecture named after him. The NIH has funded Fred for a remarkable 45 years, during which time he has published over 280 papers, with more on the way.
In 1970, Fred initiated the famous yeast course at Cold Spring Harbor, which has trained scores of today's leading investigators. He served as an instructor in this course for 17 years. Fred's many landmark contributions to several fields of molecular biology were recognized by his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985.
Genetics Day is an annual event, including a poster session and plenary lectures, that brings together the University genetics community defined in its broadest sense. This year, Dr. Gary Ruvkun, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, gave the Sherman Lecture entilted, The tiny RNA pathways of C. elegans. -
May 6, 2011
9th Annual Fred Sherman Lecture Highlights Genetics Day 2011
The department of Biomedical Genetics 23rd Annual Genetics Day was highlighted by the 9th Annual Fred Sherman Lecture. Dr. Fred Sherman, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry & Biophysics has been honored for his contributions to Genetics and Yeast Genetics for the past nine years with a lecture named after him. The NIH has funded Fred for a remarkable 44 years, during which time he has published over 280 papers, with more on the way.
In 1970, Fred initiated the famous yeast course at Cold Spring Harbor, which has trained scores of today's leading investigators. He served as an instructor in this course for 17 years. Fred's many landmark contributions to several fields of molecular biology were recognized by his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985.
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September 3, 2010
Fred Sherman Articles Honored as JBC Classics
To celebrate 100 years of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Journal of Biological Chemistry chose to reprint two of Dr. Fred Sherman's articles as well as write a biographical sketch honoring Fred's over four decades of research with cytochrome c. The two reprints, The Mutational Alteration of the Primary Structure of Yeast Iso-1-cytochrome c (1968) and Identification of Missense Mutants by Amino Acid Replacements in Iso-1-cytochrome c from Yeast (1974) speak to Fred's early research in isolation and identification of cytochrome c mutants which continues today. Dr. Sherman is currently Professor Emeritus in the department of Biochemistry & Biophysics at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Please read the entire JBC Centennial tribute to Dr. Sherman.
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July 25, 2006
Dr. Fred Sherman Receives Genetic Society of America Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Fred Sherman was honored at this year's Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting sponsored by GSA with the lifetime achievement award. Dr. Sherman has tirelessly led international efforts to firmly establish yeast as the premier genetic eukaryotic model system. He is currently Professor Emeritus, but has served as department Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics (1982-1999) and Chairman of the Genetics Division of the National Academy of Sciences (2000-2003), of which he is one of only two members at the University of Rochester Medical Center. The meeting was held in Princeton, N.J., July 25-30. There were 820 attendees presenting 81 oral presentations and over 500 posters.
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May 1, 2003
The Double Entendre: Gerald Fink's Tribute to Fred Sherman
Dr. Gerald Fink of Whitehead Institute at MIT recently honored his friend and collegue, Dr. Fred Sherman, with a tribute in the book, The Early Days of Yeast Genetics. Fink and Sherman taught the Cold Spring Harbor Yeast Course for 17 years together. In the chapter,The Double Entendre, Dr. Fink describes his collegue as being
deadly serious
about the Yeast course and that he wasconstantly inventing inexpensive gadgets for the course to substitute for the costly ones.
Citing Fred's
zany
sense of humor and love for the course and Cold Spring Harbor itself, Gerry would never had to ask if Fred was enthusiastic about teaching the course another summer:I could tell from the Cheshire grin that squeaked out as he partnered one of the students into the laboratory that he was up for another year.
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May 1, 2000
Dr. Fred Sherman Named Chairman of Genetics Section of National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Fred Sherman, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics has been named Chairman of of the Genetics Section of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Sherman has been investigating various broad aspects of gene expression in yeast, as means to determine processes operating in eukaryotic cells by using iso-1-cytochrome c as a model system for over four decades, and was elected to NAS in 1985.
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May 1, 1985
Dr. Fred Sherman Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Fred Sherman was elected to join an elite group of exceptional scientists that make up the National Academy of Sciences. A pioneer in yeast genetics (viewed by many as
The Father of Yeast Genetics
), his election was based on his research in various areas of yeast biology, including gene expression, protein processing and degradation, mRNA degradation, as well as studies with the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans, as well as hundreds of journal articles, and several books (and chapters) detailing his work. Sherman is currently the Chair of Department of Biochemistry at the University of Rochester. -
September 1, 1982
Dr. Fred Sherman Named Chair of the Department of Biochemistry
Dr. Fred Sherman, Professor of Biochemistry has been named Chair of the deparment. Dr. Sherman has led international efforts to firmly establish yeast as the premier genetic eukaryotic model system. He has been investigating various broad aspects of gene expression in yeast, as means to determine processes operating in eukaryotic cells by using iso-1-cytochrome c as a model system.
