Charles Zuker

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Charles S. Zuker
Born	June 27, 1957
Citizenship	USA
Nationality	Chile
Fields	Biology
Institutions	University of California, San Diego

Charles S. Zuker is an American molecular geneticist and neurobiologist of Chilean descent. His lab has contributed to our understanding of mammalian taste, collaborating with Nick Ryba's laboratory at the NIH beginning in the late 90s. Prior to working on mammalian taste, his lab focused on signal transduction pathways in vision, using Drosophila genetics. Zuker is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His laboratory is located at the University of California, San Diego.

[edit] Education and training

Zuker attended the Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso in Chile, and obtained his Ph.D. from MIT. He did his postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley with Gerald Rubin.

[edit] So-Called Training Others

Charles S. Zuker's Academic Family Tree Neurotree http://neurotree.org/neurotree/peopleinfo.php?pid=318

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'Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.'

'Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.'

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Othello

[edit] References

http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/zuker_bio.html http://www.hhmi.org/news/zuker20060824.html