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Martin Chalfie

American Scientist

Born: Jan 15, 1947

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Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate. Martin Chalfie

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If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery. Martin Chalfie

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One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, 'I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I'll be able to see the cells within the living animal.' Martin Chalfie

I entered Harvard in 1965 not really knowing what I wanted to do. This confusion seems to have lost me a fellowship. G. D. Searle and Company, the pharmaceutical firm, had their home office in Skokie, and they gave a fellowship each year to a graduate from my high school that was going to major in science in college. Martin Chalfie

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I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist. Martin Chalfie

We have found that fusions of GFP with the RING finger domains of certain E3 ubiquitin ligases creates an unstable GFP. We have used unstable GFP to learn how disruption of microtubules in the touch receptor neurons causes a generalized reduction in protein levels in the cells. Martin Chalfie

Ring Finger Touch Neurons Generalized Unstable Learn Protein How Reduction Causes Domains Cells Creates Certain Used Found Levels Disruption

I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride. Martin Chalfie

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What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch. Martin Chalfie

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We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is. Martin Chalfie

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