LYNN MARGULIS, CHAMPION OF THE ENDOSYMBIOTIC THEORY AND SYMBIOGENESIS (1938–2011)

I first met Lynn Margulis at a workshop and summer school I organised in Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, in the summer of 2000. This meeting was part of a European Science Foundation-funded programme called CYANOFIX, and was focussed on Cyanobacterial Symbioses. We were delighted in getting Lynn to participate, largely through the efforts of Birgitta Bergman, a colleague at the University of Stockholm, who was also involved in running the meeting, as well as getting her to contribute to a Special Issue of Biology and Environment, ‘Commentaries on Cyanobacterial Symbioses’. I also recall subsequent interactions with her at Meetings of the International Symbiosis Society, and we served together on the editorial board of the journal Symbiosis......read more

Read the obituary letter in The Guardian here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/jan/06/lynn-margulis-obituary-letter

 

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