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The genetecist & the biochemist: Bill Sullivan & Doug Kellogg
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Two decade-old parables illustrating the differences between geneticists and biochemists and the relative merits of the two approaches strike a chord with today’s scientists, even as the two approaches are merging to become complementary cornerstones of modern biomedical research. Bill Sullivan, a geneticist, and Doug Kellogg, a biochemist, both from the Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, launched a friendly debate about the relative merits of their two approaches to solving the mysteries of biology in the 1990's, when each published his own story about the pitfalls of the other's system. These two essays, in the form of parables, have been widely reprinted and posted ever since.  MORE... read about it in the UCSC Review
MORE... Sullivan's parable, "The Salvation of Doug: a Tale of Two Retired Scientists and Some Rope"
MORE... Kellogg's parable, "The Demise of Bill"
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