Ben-Tabou de-Leon Smadar
Department of Marine Biology, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, 31905, Haifa, Israel.
Hist Philos Life Sci. 2017 Oct 16;39(4):32. doi: 10.1007/s40656-017-0159-9.
Eric Davidson was a legend both in his science and his personality. He inspired and challenged a new generation of developmental biologists and I was lucky to be one of them. He changed the way we think about biological interactions by synthesizing a large scale, almost incomprehensible set of data into a causal model of a gene regulatory network. While his death leaves a big hole in our lives, his contribution to the conceptualization of regulatory biology will inspire developmental and evolutionary biologists for decades to come.
埃里克·戴维森无论是在学术成就还是个人品质方面都是一位传奇人物。他激励并挑战了新一代发育生物学家，而我有幸成为其中一员。他通过将大量几乎难以理解的数据综合成基因调控网络的因果模型，改变了我们思考生物相互作用的方式。虽然他的离世给我们的生活留下了巨大空缺，但他对调控生物学概念化的贡献将在未来几十年激励发育生物学家和进化生物学家。
