- Peter Satir
Dr Peter Satir is a microbiologist who has spent his career studying the basis of motion by studying the
cilium . He is a native of New York, graduated from theBronx High School of Science in 1952, received his Ph.D. from theRockefeller Institute in 1961 and currently works at the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology at theAlbert Einstein College of Medicine .His interest in biology came from the first day in high school biology when he looked in a microscope, saw a "Paramecium" and asked his teacher how its cilia move. He says, "At the age of fourteen, I had asked the question which still dominates my research interests. Of course, I still had a long way to go to be a biologist."
After high school, he went to Columbia University where he was the only
zoology major. An unusual decision at the time, he also decided to go to graduate school. He met his wife Birgit while studying in Denmark. After their marriage, they moved to Chicago, where they worked in Biology and Zoology at theUniversity of Chicago . While not permitted to work under the same supervisor, they were permitted to work in the same department.In 1967, Satir was appointed Associate Professor of Anatomy in Berkeley bringing experience in electron microscopy and modern cell biology to the department. He and his wife were the first couple in history to work in the same department. They went to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine because it offers individual faculty positions to spouses.
In 2005, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the
University of Copenhagen .External links
* [http://www.csu.edu/mbrs/programhighlights.htm Bio]
* [http://www.ascb.org/files/0601profile.pdf American Society of Cell Biology Newsletter]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed PubMed 117 hits for "Satir AND (Satir P [Auth] )"]
* [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=&num=100&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=%22Peter+Satir%22&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en&lr=&safe=off Google Scholar search]
* [http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/168/3/350 Cilia get arms for bending]
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