Jeffrey C. Hall
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Jeffrey Connor Hall (born May 3, 1945) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Hall is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Brandeis University and currently resides in Cambridge, Maine.
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Quotes
[edit]- Whether or not a researcher of a certain notoriety deserves that the ‘support system’ [to] keep him going, there is a far more general problem: What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted US of A, involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption. A principal symptom of this state of affairs involves the following: People are hired after they have undergone long stints of training; and a potential hiree must present a large body of documented accomplishments. In my day you could get a faculty job with zero post-doc papers, as in the case of yours truly; but now the CV of a successful applicant looks like that of a newly minted full Professor from olden times. Notwithstanding these demands, and the associated high quality of a fledgling faculty-level type, the job starts with some “set-up” money for equipping the lab; but next to no means are provided to initiate that ‘research program’ and to sustain it during the years to come.
- As quoted in A 2017 Nobel laureate says he left science because he ran out of money and was fed up with academia (October 5, 2017) Akshat Rathi, Quartz.
- US institutions (possibly also those in other countries) behave as though they… are entitled to research funding, which will magically materialize from elsewhere: “Get a grant, serf! If you can’t do it quickly, or have trouble for some years — or if your funding doesn’t get renewed, despite continuing productivity — forget it!” But what if there are so many applicants (as there are nowadays) that even a meritorious proposal gets the supplicant nowhere or causes a research group to grind prematurely to a halt? What if the situation is worsened when the government at hand is anti-science and otherwise squanders its resources on international adventurism?
- As quoted in A 2017 Nobel laureate says he left science because he ran out of money and was fed up with academia (October 5, 2017) Akshat Rathi, Quartz.
- Having said all this, I acknowledge that “I got mine” from the government over the course of many years. Thus, as I say so long,” one component of my last-gasp disquiet stems from pompously worrying about biologists who are starting out or are in mid-career.
- As quoted in A 2017 Nobel laureate says he left science because he ran out of money and was fed up with academia (October 5, 2017) Akshat Rathi, Quartz.
External links
[edit]- Jeff Hall – Brandeis Faculty Guide
- Interview with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash
- Hardin, Paul E. (February 8, 1990). "Feedback of the Drosophila period gene product on circadian cycling of its messenger RNA levels". Nature 343 (6258): 536–540. DOI:10.1038/343536a0.
- (December 1999)"A pdf Neuropeptide Gene Mutation and Ablation of PDF Neurons Each Cause Severe Abnormalities of Behavioral Circadian Rhythms in Drosophila". Cell 99 (7): 791–802. DOI:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81676-1.