Farewell to Professor David Yaffe – A Pillar of the Myogenesis Field

European Journal of Translational Myology

David Greenberg¹  Zipora Yablonka-Reuveni²  Uri Nudel³  Rachel Sarig³  Erica Meghid Krull⁴  Orna Halevy⁵  David Israeli⁶  Bruce Paterson⁷  Gania Kessler-Icekson⁸  Eijiro Ozawa⁹  Sara Neuman^1,10  Ora Saxel Fuchs^1,11  Frank Stockdale^1,12  Helen M. Blau^1,13  Don J. Katcoff^1,14  Asher Shainberg^1,14 

[1] Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem;Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA;Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot;Easton, Massachusetts;Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University, Rehovot;Genethon, INSERM U-951, Evry;Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland;Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Cardiology, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv;National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP, Tokyo;Ness-Ziona;Rehovot;Stanford University School of Medicine, CA;Stanford University School of Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Clinical Sciences Research Center, Stanford, CA;The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan;

关键词: myogenesis;    myology;    muscle;    myoblasts;    Professor David Yaffe;    L6;   

DOI  :  10.4081/ejtm.0.9306

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

It is with great sadness that we have learned about the passing of Professor David Yaffe (1929-2020, Israel). Yehi Zichro Baruch - May his memory be a blessing. David was a man of family, science and nature. A native of Israel, David grew up in the historic years that preceded the birth of the State of Israel. He was a member of the group that established Kibbutz Revivim in the Negev desert, and in 1948 participated in Israel’s War of Independence. David and Ruth eventually joined Kibbutz Givat Brenner by Rehovot, permitting David to be both a kibbutz member and a life-long researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where David received his PhD in 1959. David returned to the Institute after his postdoc at Stanford. Here, after several years of researching a number of tissues as models for studying the process of differentiation, David entered the myogenesis field and stayed with it to his last day. With his dedication to the field of myogenesis and his commitment to furthering the understanding of the People and the Land of Israel throughout the international scientific community, David organized the first ever myogenesis meeting that took place in Shoresh, Israel in 1975. This was followed by the 1980 myogenesis meeting at the same place and many more outstanding meetings, all of which brought together myogenesis, nature and scenery. Herein, through the preparation and publication of this current manuscript, we are meeting once again at a “David Yaffe myogenesis meeting". Some of us have been members of the Yaffe lab, some of us have known David as his national and international colleagues in the myology field. One of our contributors has also known (and communicates here) about David Yaffe’s earlier years as a kibbutznick in the Negev. Our collective reflections are a tribute to Professor David Yaffe. We are fortunate that the European Journal of Translational Myology has provided us with tremendous input and a platform for holding this 2020 distance meeting "Farwell to Professor David Yaffe - A Pillar of the Myogenesis Field".

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