Ira Herskowitz

Who is this?

Ira Herskowitz (July 14, 1946 – April 28, 2003) was an American phage and yeast geneticist who studied genetic regulatory circuits and mechanisms. He was particularly noted for his work on mating type switching and cellular differentiation, largely using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.

Career

1. 1946
   Born
2. 1985
   Won NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing
3. 1987
   Won MacArthur Fellows Program
4. 1988
   Won Genetics Society of America Medal
5. 2002
   Won Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
6. 2002
   Won Rosenstiel Award
7. 2003
   Passed away
8. Member of National Academy of Sciences
9. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Brooklyn
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: geneticist, university teacher