Genetics is the logic of life (at least of mine).

Abstract

I retrace my path from math to medicine to biochemistry to yeast genetics, my focus on infectious diseases of yeast and finally prions. My discovery of yeast prions relied on my particular focus on the logical relations of non-chromosomal genetic elements and the chromosomal genes involved in their propagation and expression. Pursuing an understanding of yeast prions involved structural biology based on genetics, solid-state NMR, population genetics and more genetics.