Developmental Neurobiology 4th ed - M. Rao, Neuroscience
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DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY Fourth Edition DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY Fourth Edition Edited by MAHENDRA S. RAO National Institute on Aging Bethesda, MD and MARCUS JACOBSON † University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT † Deceased Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ISBN 0-306-48330-0 © 2005 by Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York 233 Spring Street, New York, New York 10013 http://www.kluweronline.com 10987654321 A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Permissions for books published in Europe: permissions@wkap.nl Permissions for books published in the United States of America: permissions@wkap.com Printed in Singapore Marcus Jacobson Marcus Jacobson, a prominent scholar of developmental neuro- biology, died of cancer at his home in Torrey, Utah in November, 2001; he was 71. Jacobson was born in South Africa and finished medical training at the University of Cape Town. He then completed gradu- ate study at Edinburgh University, receiving a Ph.D. in 1960 for a dissertation concerning specificity of synaptic connections in the Xenopus retinotectal system. Over the next two decades, Jacobson exploited the experimental opportunities provided by this prepara- tion to become one of the best-known researchers of nervous sys- tem development, first at Purdue University then at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Miami (Hunt and Jacobson, 1974). In 1977, Jacobson moved to the University of Utah to become chairman of the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy; he expanded the department and refocused its research on develop- mental neurobiology, a field in which it maintains a strong reputa- tion. Shortly after moving to Utah, Jacobson began using single-cell injection techniques and lineage tracing in Xenopus to study early patterning of the nervous system (Jacobson, 1985). In 1970, Jacobson published Developmental Neurobiology (Jacobson, 1970), a landmark book that critically summarized the status of the core topics in the emerging field that thereafter became known as developmental neurobiology. In two subse- quent editions of this leading reference text (published by Plenum Press in 1977 and 1991), Jacobson enlarged the book substantially to maintain comprehensive coverage of a field that was growing rapidly. Throughout his career, Jacobson showed a strong interest in the history of neuroscience and embryology. His deep understanding of the history of the field was integral to all of his scientific publications but became more explicit and extensive in the third edition of Developmental Neurobiology and in his Foundations of Neuroscience (Jacobson, 1993), a consid- eration of historical, epistemological and ethical aspects of neu- roscience research. Jacobson was a man of formidable energy and intellect who was adept at provoking his colleagues to think deeply about the ideas underlying their work. Although he readily adopted new methods into his own research program, he warned against a pre- occupation with techniques and observations at the expense of hypotheses and models (Jacobson, 1993). Jacobson was a con- noisseur and collector of Chinese art and he amassed an impor- tant collection of modern Chinese paintings that, along with his large collection of rare books on the history of embryology and neuroscience, has been donated to the University of Utah. He is survived by his wife and three adult children. REFERENCES Hunt, R.K. and Jacobson, M., 1974, Neuronal specificity revisited, Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 8:203–259. Jacobson, M., 1985, Clonal analysis and cell lineages of the vertebrate cen- tral nervous system, Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 8:71–102. Jacobson, M., 1970, Developmental Neurobiology , Holt Rinehart & Winston, New York. Jacobson, M., 1993, Foundations of Neuroscience , Plenum Press, New York. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |