Pioneering microbiologist Norton Zinder, a great friend of the Program for the Human Environment, passed away 3 February 2012. Nicholas Wade recapped Norton’s career beautifully for the New York Times. Jesse offered a tribute to Norton at the memorial service on 8 February.
Among our joint efforts were the launching of the DNA barcoding movement with a pair of Banbury Conferences on DNA taxonomy at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2003 described about 1’20’ into this video of the history of barcoding ,and the first “Summit of the Cloners,” also at Banbury, in March 2000.