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The decision to return to Berkeley for graduate school was both personal and professional. Berkeley in the 1960s was a charismatic place, and Lee and I still had many friends there. A stroll through Sproul Plaza was like wandering through the set of a Fellini movie, with a few scenes from Battleship Potemkin thrown in for good measure. Scientifically, Berkeley was then the top-ranked botany department in the country, so I was pretty excited after receiving a call from the department chair, Leonard Machlisthe author of the reigning plant physiology lab manualtelling me that I had been accepted to the graduate program.
Upon reporting for duty at the department in the late summer of 1967, I was immediately thrown into the deep end by being assigned as teaching assistant (TA) of an electron microscopy (EM) course that fall. My smug satisfaction at being a Berkeley graduate student abruptly pivoted to panic, for I had little more than a passing acquaintance with the most basic compound microscopes, let alone an electron microscope the size of a Volkswagen bug. Youthful resilience prevailed despite my trepidations, and after a crash course given to me by a kindly EM technician, I was good to go. As far as the students were concerned, I was an expert, and my worst nightmare of blowing up the hissing, clanking, buzzing contraption never materialized. In fact, after my baptism by fire, all subsequent TA assignments seemed like cakewalks by comparison.
They soon identified a membrane fraction that exhibited strong activity. The problem was that the activity was in a lighter fraction at the top of the gradient rather than midgradient where the PM marker enzymes were concentrated. Irv had a hunch the proton pumping activity was actually localized on the vacuolar membrane rather than the PM, and he turned out to be right. Although we were initially disappointed, the vacuolar proton pump had not yet been characterized, and as it turned out, other labs were converging on the same discovery. Fortuitously, our lab neighbors, Barry and Rusty Bowman, had identified a similar fraction in Neurospora, and Heven Sze and others were arriving at the same conclusion for plants. Within a year there emerged an entire constellation of labs investigating the vacuolar H+-ATPases of animals, plants, and fungi, with the plant and fungal labs leading the way.
By the late 1980s, molecular biology was in full swing, and techniques for cloning and sequencing genes had become essential laboratory tools. For me it was a challenging transition from physiology to molecular biology, just as earlier it had been difficult for plant anatomists to adapt to the electron microscope. I was very fortunate in having a lab full of extremely talented postdocs and graduate students at this crucial moment. To facilitate communication and create a sense of esprit de corps, the Taiz and Bowman groups began holding joint lab meetings, and some of my fondest memories are from this period. Suzanne Mandala had succeeded in purifying the V-ATPase of maize and identifying various subunits on electrophoretic gels. In parallel, Rusty Bowman had identified the same subunits in the Neurospora V-ATPase. The creation of antibodies enabled us to localize the protein on the plant vacuolar membrane by EM immunocytochemistry. More importantly, we able to clone two of the genes from a carrot cDNA library using the maize antibodies, and the Bowman lab cloned the same genes in Neurospora.
Peter Gogarten, a postdoc from Germany, had been working closely with Henrik Kibak on the evolutionary relationships of the V- and F-type ATPases. It was clear that the catalytic and noncatalytic subunits were paralogous, having arisen from a gene duplication event as in the case of the β and α subunits of eubacteria. By constructing a united phylogenetic tree that included both the catalytic and noncatalytic subunit genes, Peter was able to infer that the gene duplication event must have occurred prior to the last common ancestor of the eubacteria, eukaryotes, and archaebacteria. This allowed him to place the root of the phylogenetic tree of life between the eubacteria on the one hand, and the eukaryotes and archaebacteria on the other. It further suggested that eukaryotic vacuolar ATPases had evolved from internalized archaebacterial ancestral genes. How this internalization occurred remains an ongoing question.
I believe it was the summer of 1969, when I attended the XI International Botanical Congress (IBC) in Seattle as a graduate student. That year, the ASPP annual meeting was held jointly with the IBC. The IBC was a major event for Seattle and was welcomed with much fanfare. The United States Postal Service even issued four new 6-cent stamps for the occasion.
When the Seattle Times published a story about us a couple of days into the meeting, the conference organizers began to worry that our petition was undermining the primary purpose of the Presidential Symposium, which was to highlight the contributions plant biology was making toward feeding a growing population. The next day the organizers contacted us to arrange an urgent meeting with the president. We were giddy with excitement. The president was none other than the legendary plant physiologist Kenneth V. Thimann, who was to become my dear colleague at UC Santa Cruz four years later. As we took our seats at the large rectangular table with Kenneth at the head, we prepared to lock horns with this gray eminence and hold our ground at all costs. Whatever was actually going on in his mind, Kenneth proved to be a polite, soft-spoken, and completely disarming adversary, and after we had made our case, he readily agreed to put our resolution to a vote at the plenary session of the Congress. True to his word, the vote was taken, and the resolution passed with flying colors. The next day our small but happy band of graduate students drove home to Berkeley in triumph, certain in the knowledge that we had struck a blow for a sustainable future in which everyone had enough to eat.
One of the attractions of a scientific career to me has always been the collaborative nature of research. Experimental scientists are nothing if not social, and even theoreticians depend on regular feedback from their colleagues. For those of us working in plant biology, ASPB provides a formal structure that facilitates easy communication among its members, whether through its journals, annual meetings, sectional meetings, or website. For graduate students and postdocs, ASPB provides access to job opportunities, future mentors, and legendary figures in the field. In essence, ASPB is our tribe, fostering communication, collegiality, productivity, and visibility at every stage in our careers. The officers of ASPB also play a vital role as ambassadors and lobbyists for continued government funding for research and education, which impacts us all. Becoming a member of the Legacy Society was simply my way of expressing appreciation to ASPB for all of the important work it does.
Time management will be one of your greatest challenges right off the bat, unless you are one of those fortunate individuals to whom it seems to come naturally. Besides writing grants and setting up a lab, you will probably have teaching and administrative duties to fulfill as well. Being able to multitask and deal with stress is foundational to everything else. Self-doubt is natural, but you should feel confident that you belong where you have arrived. After all, most jobs are extremely competitive, and you have already been thoroughly vetted by your new colleagues. Work on establishing rapport with the people around you, especially the students in your lab. Undergrads need a lot of direction. Graduate students and postdocs differ in their needs, depending on their skills and independence, so you need to tailor your approach to each individual. By the time they leave your lab, however, postdocs should be functioning as independent investigators.
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His talk, "Agriculture, Population Growth, and the Challenge of Climate Change," will take place at 7 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall on the UC Santa Cruz campus. It is free and open to the public. Free parking will be available in the Performing Arts parking lot.
Taiz will discuss how the challenge of producing enough food for the world's growing population is exacerbated by global warming. World population is projected to grow to 10 billion people by 2050, and analyses indicate that agricultural productivity is not rising fast enough to meet the needs of that many people. Furthermore, climate change is expected to affect crop production in many parts of the world. According to Taiz, meeting these challenges will require a multifaceted approach.
Taiz is known for his work on plant cell walls, cell expansion, and enzymes that transport protons across membranes in plant cells. His research interests also include uptake and tolerance of metals by plants; regulation of the tiny pores called stomata that open and close to allow gas exchange in plant leaves; and the history of botany. A fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), Taiz served on the editorial board of the journal Plant Physiology and is the author of several ASPB-sponsored publications. His textbook Plant Physiology, coauthored with Eduardo Zeiger, serves as an authoritative text for students studying plant biology.
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