Drosophila researcher Bruce Baker has died

A tweet from the Perrimon lab indicates that Drosophila researcher Bruce Baker died on July 1, 2018, and notes, "Over his career he made seminal studies on sex determination, sexual behavior, dosage compensation and imaginal disc development. Rest in Peace."

Follow this link to view Bruce Baker's legacy in the form of trainees who went on to start their own research laboratories.

"In memoriam: Bruce Baker" appeared July 24, 2018, on the Genes to Genomes blog of the Genetics Society of America.

 

Update: Andrew, Chen, Manoli, Ryner, and Arbeitman co-authored a perspective on Baker's scientific career published in the June 2019 issue of Genetics.