Farewell to Professor David Yaffe – A Pillar of the Myogenesis Field
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...
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| author | Zipora Yablonka-Reuveni Frank Stockdale Uri Nudel David Israeli Helen M. Blau Asher Shainberg Sara Neuman Gania Kessler-Icekson Erica Meghid Krull Bruce Paterson Ora Saxel Fuchs David Greenberg Rachel Sarig Orna Halevy Eijiro Ozawa Don J. Katcoff |
| author_facet | Zipora Yablonka-Reuveni Frank Stockdale Uri Nudel David Israeli Helen M. Blau Asher Shainberg Sara Neuman Gania Kessler-Icekson Erica Meghid Krull Bruce Paterson Ora Saxel Fuchs David Greenberg Rachel Sarig Orna Halevy Eijiro Ozawa Don J. Katcoff |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-cef8fab63df3412d95691da602433ed62022-12-22T00:56:28ZengPAGEPress PublicationsEuropean Journal of Translational Myology2037-74522037-74602020-08-0110.4081/ejtm.0.9306Farewell to Professor David Yaffe – A Pillar of the Myogenesis FieldZipora Yablonka-Reuveni0Frank Stockdale1Uri Nudel2David Israeli3Helen M. Blau4Asher Shainberg5Sara Neuman6Gania Kessler-Icekson7Erica Meghid Krull8Bruce Paterson9Ora Saxel Fuchs10David Greenberg11Rachel Sarig12Orna Halevy13Eijiro Ozawa14Don J. Katcoff15Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WAStanford University School of Medicine, CADepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, RehovotGenethon, INSERM U-951, EvryStanford University School of Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Clinical Sciences Research Center, Stanford, CAThe Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-GanNess-ZionaLaboratory of Cellular and Molecular Cardiology, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-AvivEaston, MassachusettsLaboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MarylandRehovotDepartment of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, JerusalemDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, RehovotFaculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University, RehovotNational Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP, TokyoThe Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-GanIt 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".https://pagepressjournals.org/index.php/bam/article/view/9306myogenesismyologymusclemyoblastsProfessor David YaffeL6 |
| spellingShingle | Zipora Yablonka-Reuveni Frank Stockdale Uri Nudel David Israeli Helen M. Blau Asher Shainberg Sara Neuman Gania Kessler-Icekson Erica Meghid Krull Bruce Paterson Ora Saxel Fuchs David Greenberg Rachel Sarig Orna Halevy Eijiro Ozawa Don J. Katcoff Farewell to Professor David Yaffe – A Pillar of the Myogenesis Field European Journal of Translational Myology myogenesis myology muscle myoblasts Professor David Yaffe L6 |
| title | Farewell to Professor David Yaffe – A Pillar of the Myogenesis Field |
| title_full | Farewell to Professor David Yaffe – A Pillar of the Myogenesis Field |
| title_fullStr | Farewell to Professor David Yaffe – A Pillar of the Myogenesis Field |
| title_full_unstemmed | Farewell to Professor David Yaffe – A Pillar of the Myogenesis Field |
| title_short | Farewell to Professor David Yaffe – A Pillar of the Myogenesis Field |
| title_sort | farewell to professor david yaffe a pillar of the myogenesis field |
| topic | myogenesis myology muscle myoblasts Professor David Yaffe L6 |
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