Reed Wickner
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 81 |
| Date of birth | September 27,1942 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Education | Cornell University |
| Georgetown University | |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Books | DNA replication |
| Prion Diseases of Mammals and Yeast: Molecular Mechanisms and Genetic Features | |
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| ID | 3945595 |
Reed Wickner Life story
Reed B. Wickner is an American yeast geneticist. In 1994 he proposed that the [PSI+] and [URE3] phenotypes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a form of budding yeast, were caused by prion forms of native proteins - specifically, the Sup35p and Ure2p proteins, respectively.