Bert Gold:  

Life My family moved from Levittown to Queens when I was six. I walked to PS 35 as I had to Abbey Lane, then took a bus to Linden Junior High School, eventually attending Stuyvesant for a year and finishing at Forest Hills. I went to Washington University in St. Louis for my undergraduate work, worked for a year as a technician at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, and then drove to Boston for graduate school in a beat up car. After Tufts, I post-doc'd at Harvard Medical School and The Biological Laboratories. After that I worked in several biotech. companies in Boston, eventually trying (but not succeeding) in starting my own. A series of junior, non-tenure track faculty positions followed including UMDNJ and Temple. Eventually, I got Board Certified in Molecular Genetics, spent some time doing seriously good work at SmithKline Beecham Clinical Labs., in Van Nuys, California, which got taken over by Quest Diagnostics, and then moved to NIH, to the National Cancer Institute, where I am a Staff Scientist. Oh, yeah, I met Debra Kattler at a party in Brookline in 1983 that was hosted by some friends from Wash. U. We married in 1986 and have roamed the earth together since, including trips to France, Jamaica, Mexico, Israel, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and several to the Caribbean (not necessarily in that order). We have two daughters, Sara, 12, and Maya, 8. College I hope I will have a chance to write a college biography at some point. For now, I'll just say that I was in St. Louis in 2000, during a cross-country drive. There, I saw David Kirk, tried visiting Bill Gass, ran into Sally Elgin (who was a Professor at Harvard when I invited to lecture at Tufts during my graduate work there), and I tried to find Al Holtzer to no avail. I was amazed at the new found civilization in my old Delmar neighborhood, and I almost bought a used science book, just for the signature of its former owner (I think it was Pau...Expand for more