Jeffrey C. Hall
Jeff Hall was born in Brooklyn, New York, but spent most of his childhood years in the suburbs of Washington, DC. He was an undergraduate at Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he began to study genetic phenomena in Drosophila. He continued in this vein as a graduate student at the University of Washington (Seattle). When he subsequently became a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California), he made a lateral move into neurogenetic studies of Drosophila (just as a duck might make a lateral move à l'orange).
greatly influenced him especially by encouraging Hall to stay updated on recent events in the daily newspaper. As a good high school student, Hall planned to pursue a career in medicine. Hall began pursuing a bachelor's degree at Amherst College in 1963. However, during his time as an undergraduate student, Hall found his passion in biology
For his senior project, to gain experience in formal research, Hall began working with Philip Ives. Hall reported that Ives was one of the most influential people he encountered during his formative years.
Hall became fascinated with the study of Drosophila while working in Ives' lab, a passion that has permeated his research. Under the supervision of Ives, Hall studied recombination and translocation induction in Drosophila. The success of Hall's research pursuits prompted department faculty to recommend that Hall pursue graduate school at University of Washington in Seattle, where the entire biology department was devoted to genetics.
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