Dr. Ann M. Lacy

Ann Lacy was a vibrant junior faculty member in 1960 when I began my studies at Goucher. I worked in her laboratory in 1962-3 and 1963-4, my junior and senior years. Her beautiful lecture strategy of describing the essentials of each experiment that established a major tenet of today's genetics was a main reason I became a geneticist myself. I studied the mold Neurospora crassawith her and again at Yale during my PhD work. Ann Lacy inspired me to think like a scientist and to enjoy Pepe's...