Angelika Amon (1967–2020): Breakthrough scientist, extraordinary mentor, and loyal friend

Angelika Amon

Angelika Amon obtained her PhD in 1994 from the University of Vienna for her work on the molecular mechanisms governing cell cycle progression in budding yeast. She then joined the laboratory of Dr. Ruth Lehmann at the Whitehead Institute to investigate germ cell formation in Drosophila. In 1996 Angelika accepted a Whitehead Fellow position to study the mechanisms governing chromosome segregati...

Angelika Amon: Conquering the divide

M itosis is a fantastically complex process, but the simple beauty of chromosome segregation can captivate even the untrained eye. When Angelika Amon saw a video of a dividing cell as a schoolgirl in Austria, it set her on a path to a professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, where she continues to investigate chromosome segregation and the consequences of mit...

Unanticipated Success Stories: An Interview with Angelika Amon

THE Genetics Society of America Medal is awarded to an individual for outstanding contributions to the field of genetics in the past 15 years. Recipients of the GSA Medal are recognized for elegant and highly meaningful contributions to modern genetics. The 2014 recipient, Angelika B. Amon, has uncovered key principles governing the cell cycle and was the first to demonstrate a connection betwe...

Takeshi Matsuura: A Truly Inspirational Friend and Membrane Scientist

Susan Lindquist: Visionary scientist and peerless mentor

The science universe is dimmer after one of our brightest stars, Susan Lee Lindquist, was taken by cancer on October 27, 2016. Sue was an innovative, creative, out-of-the-box scientific thinker. She had unique biological intuition-an instinct for both the way things worked and the right questions to ask to uncover new research insights. Her wide-ranging career began with the study of protein fo...