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Donald C. Hawthorne Memorial Program

A Celebration of Don’s Scientific Life
April 18, 2003, 2:00 PM, J280 HSB


Program Stan Gartler – Welcome Dave Stadler – Don and the early days of yeast genetics Ben Hall – Don’s contributions to yeast genetics Lee Hartwell – Memories of a colleague Ted Young – How Don introduced Jim Hopper to yeast genetics Glen Kawasaki – Memories of a graduate student Colin Manoil – Don’s generosity Bonny Brewer – Don’s endearing idiosyncrasies Megan Harvey – My Great Uncle Donnie


Education and Employment 1950 – BS, Microbiology, University of Washington 1953 – MS, Microbiology, University of Washington 1955 – PhD, Microbiology, University of Washington, Advisors: Howard Douglas and Herschel Roman 1955-1956 – Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Advisor: Sterling Emerson 1957-1958 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratorie de Genetique Physiologique, du C. N. R. S, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Advisor: Boris Ephrussi 1959-2003 – Faculty. Department of Genetics, University of Washington 1985 – Professor Emeritus


Distinguished Papers by Donald C. Hawthorne 1955: The use of linear asci for chromosome mapping in Saccharomyces. Genetics 40:511-518 1956: The genetics of galactose fermentation in Saccharomyces hybrids. Comptes Rendus (Carlsberg LABS) 26:149-160 1960: Chromosome mapping in Saccharomyces: Centromere-linked genes. (with R. K. Mortimer) Genetics 45:1085-1110 1963: A deletion in yeast and its bearing on the structure of the mating type locus. Genetics 48:1727-1729 1963: Super-suppressors in yeast. (with R. K. Mortimer) Genetics 48:617-620. 1964: Enzymatic expression and genetic linkage of genes controlling galactose utilization in Saccharomyces. (with H. C. Douglas) Genetics 49:837-844 1968: Genetic mapping of nonsense suppressors in yeast. (with R. K. Mortimer) Genetics 60:735-42. 1968: Genetic modification of energy-conserving systems in yeast mitochondria. (with J. C. Beck , J. R. Mattoon and F. Sherman ) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 60:186-93. 1969: Identification of nonsense codons in yeast. J Mol Biol. 43:71-75. 1976: UGA mutations and UGA suppressors in yeast. Biochimie. 58:179-82. 1982: Natural variation in yeast RNA polymerase A. Formation of a mosaic RNA polymerase A in a meiotic segregant from an interspecific hybrid. (with M. Riva, J. M. Buhler, A. Sentenac and P. Fromageot) J Biol Chem. 257:4570-7. 1994: Genetic and molecular analysis of hybrids in the genus Saccharomyces involving S. cerevisiae, S. uvarum and a new species, S. douglasii. (with P. Philippsen) Yeast. 10:1285-96.