Profile of Steven Henikoff

摘要

Molecular biologist Steven Henikoff s career was born out of a childhood hobby. He loved photography. Not so much the "shutter" part, he explains, though that was fun, but the chemistry part in the darkroom, where the discovery process occurred. Henikoff s hobby sparked a cascade from his undergraduate major in chemistry to his graduate degree in biochemistry, which led to his career chasing a thread of how to understand epigenetic inheritance—the aspects of a cell that are inherited without changes in DNA.