CURRICULUM VITAE

JOSEPH GRAFTON GALL

PERSONAL DATA

Joseph Grafton Gall, born April 14, 1928, Washington, D.C., U.S. Citizen. Married September 1955 to Dolores M. Hogge. Children: Lawrence Frederick born 1956, Barbara Grafton born 1958. Married July 1982 to Diane M. Dwyer.

EDUCATION

Yale University, B.S., 1949, major in Zoology.

Yale University, Ph.D., 1952, major in Zoology, Ph.D. advisor: Donald F. Poulson. Title of thesis: the Lampbrush Chromosomes of the newt Triturus viridescens.

APPOINTMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Zoology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 1952-1964.

Professor, then Ross Granville Harrison Professor of , Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT. 1964-1983.

Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution, , MD. 1983- present.

Adjunct Professor of Biology, , Baltimore, MD. 1984-present.

American Cancer Society Professor of Developmental Genetics 1984-(lifetime).

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, ORGANIZATIONS, SERVICE

American Society for Cell Biology (President, 1967-68)

Society for Developmental Biology (President 1984-85)

Genetics Society of America

American Society for the Advancement of Science

German Society for Cell Biology

Royal Microscopical Society.

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Member, NIH Cell Biology Study Section 1964-68; Chairman, 1972-74.

Member, American Cancer Society Advisory Committee on Virology and Cell Biology (later Cell and Developmental Biology) 1976-78; Chairman 1978-80.

Chairman, Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH 1986-1991.

Board of Scientific Advisers, Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, 1986- 1994. 1997-98

Member of Corporation (Trustee), Yale University, 1989-1995.

Formerly Associate Editor or member of Editorial Board: Molecular Biology of the Cell, Journal of Experimental Zoology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Chromosoma, Cell, Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

PROFESSIONAL HONORS:

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1968)

Member, National Academy of Sciences (1972)

Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome (1988)

Member, American Philosophical Society (1989).

President, American Society for Cell Biology (1967-68)

President, Society for Developmental Biology (1984-85).

E.B. Wilson Medal, American Society for Cell Biology (1983)

Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (1987)

Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University (1988)

J. E. Purkynje Medal, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (1999)

Honorary Member, German Society for Cell Biology (2001)

Honorary Degree, Charles University, Prague (2002)

Recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Developmental Biology (2004)

2 Recipient, Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award in Medical Research (2006)

Recipient, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2007)

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