A tribute to Carl Woese - by IoT Mote - IoT’s Newsletter
Carl Woese’s class syllabus for Evolution in the Microbial World, Spring 2006 I first heard of Carl Woese in my introductory Molecular and Cellular Biology Course (MCB 150) in the Fall of 2003. It was my sophomore year, and I had just switched majors from English. The course instructor (not Dr. Woese) had a masters degree, and he had no research responsibilities at the time. He was fully invested in highly engaging lectures. He had a flair for putting on theatrical PowerPoint presentations, and the slide started, "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." 1977 was the year Star Wars: A New Hope premiered in theaters. It was also the same year Carl Woese discovered the archaea domain of bacteria, and that it was more closely related to humans than the prokaryotes. A long time ago, in Burrill Hall. One
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