My journey in ciliate systematics
My journey in ciliate systematics
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1550-7408.1996.tb03988.x
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发表时间：
1996-07-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Lynn, DH
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作者：
Lynn, DH
社会在这个能力，我必须说，这也是一个救济，现在在过去的总统的位置。我喜欢这后一种办公室带来的更大的超然感！我也很高兴与执行委员会中一个非常热情和敬业的小组合作。我特别感谢我们的秘书莱亚·布莱曼博士在这一年里给我的建议和指导。在思考了我应该为我的前任主席讲话说些什么之后，我认为，基于两个原因，回顾一下我自己在原生动物学，特别是在纤毛虫系统学方面的历程是有益的。首先，它将为研究生和我们学科的年轻成员提供一个生活模式。其次，它将有助于展示技术对学科发展的影响。我不认为我的科学生涯在经历两次重大技术革命方面是独一无二的。然而，这些革命对我的原生动物学分支学科产生了重要的影响，记录这些革命还有另一个重要的作用，那就是向年轻一代证明，科学生活的一种方式就是与最新的技术保持同步。每一个科学生命都必须从某个地方开始，我的生命是在我父母布兰奇和贝弗利林恩的支持和加强下开始的。我对和父母一起去英国伦敦的摄政公园动物园的旅行有着强烈而持久的记忆。在我的记忆中，这些访问总是令我兴奋，并激发了我对生物学的早期兴趣。我至今仍记忆犹新的童年经历之一，是在早春时建立一个水族馆，里面有大量的青蛙卵。我对这些卵逐渐出现的形式和活动的着迷，导致了这些年来的一次又一次的调查，直到1968年夏天，我发现自己在纽芬兰圣约翰的纪念大学，他在生物系为马歇尔·莱尔德博士工作，研究蚊子繁殖的小型临时池塘的生态学。那年夏天，雅克·伯杰博士和他的“船员”在纪念馆收集海胆的内纤毛，用光学和电子显微镜固定它们，总的来说，他们似乎玩得很开心！那年夏天，雅克用他的幽默感、他在普通生物学方面的渊博知识以及他在许多问题上的教授立场吸引了我。我在他的实验室开始了我的博士研究
Society in this capacity, and I must say it is also a relief now to be in the position of Past-President. I like the larger feeling of detachment that goes with this latter office! It has also been a pleasure working with a very enthusiastic and dedicated group on the Executive Committee. I am particularly grateful for the advice and direction given to me during the year by our Secretary, Dr. Lea Bleyman.After some reflection on what I should say for my Past-President’s address, I thought that, for two reasons, it would be useful to review my own journey in protozoology, particularly in ciliate systematics. First, it would provide one model of a life to graduate students and younger members of our discipline. Second, it would serve to demonstrate the impact that technologies have on the development of a discipline. I don’t think my scientific career has been unique in respect of experiencing two major technological revolutions. However, these revolutions have had important impacts on my subdiscipline of protozoology, and a record of this serves another important-function in demonstrating to the younger generation that one way oflife in science is to keep pace with the most current techniques. Every scientific life has to start somewhere, and mine started with the support and reinforcement of my parents, Blanche and Beverley Lynn. I have strong and lasting memories of trips to Regents Park Zoo in London, England, with my parents. These visits were always, as far as I can remember, exciting for me and stimulated an early interest in biology. One of the clinching childhood experiences that I can remember vividly is establishing an aquarium in the early spring with a mass of frog’s eggs in it. My fascination with the gradual emergence of form and activity in those eggs led from one investigation to the next over the intervening years, until in the summer of 1968, I found myself at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, working for Dr. Marshall Laird in the Department of Biology on the ecology of small transient ponds in which mosquitoes bred. That summer, Dr. Jacques Berger and his “crew” were at Memorial collecting the endocommensal ciliates of sea urchins, fixing them for light and electron microscopy and generally seeming to have a very fun time! Jacques hooked me on the ciliates that summer with his sense of humour, his encyclopaedic knowledge of general biology, and his professorial stand on a number of issues. I began my doctoral work in his laboratory