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A commemorative meeting was held September 15-16, 2016, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to honor Michael Potter’s (1924-2013) foresight into using plasmacytoma models to obtain homogeneous immunoglobulins for analyses of protein structure, generation of diversity, and genome organization. The meeting included some of the major players that participated in the 9 workshops Potter organized from 1969-1979. These workshops were seminal in understanding how antibody diversity is generated, and accelerated the pace to cloning the first immunoglobulin genes. Many of the attendees are pictured below.
Participants in Commemorative meeting for Michael Potter’s Homogeneous Immunoglobulin Workshops
Meeting Organizers - Left to Right: Rafael Casellas, Pat Gearhart, Bev Mock, Mike Cancro; Meeting Participants - Alan Sher, Fritz Melchers
Left to Right: Meeting Participants Susan Leitman, Melissa Adde; Ursula Storb, Fritz Melchers, Matthew Scharff
Left to Right: Meeting ParticipantsMartin Wiegert, UrsulaStorb, MichaelReth, Bonnie Bloomberg, David Margulies
Left to Right: Meeting Participants Rafael Casellas, Dinah Singer, Patrick Wilson, Wesley Dunnick, Marjorie Shapiro, Martin Gellert
Left to Right: Meeting Participants Fritz Melchers, MelissaAdde, AlexanderKovalchuk, BettyMushinski, Gary Jones, Jim Owens
Left to Right: Herbert Morse, Marjorie Shapiro, Rose Mage, Dennis Klinman, Katherine Knight
Left to Right: Ed Max, David Margulies, Michael Mage, Martin Flajnik, Barbara Birshstein
Left to Right: Chris Stamper, Jennifer Meyers, Patrick Wilson, Bonnie Blomberg, David Scott, Leroy Hood
Left to Right: Leroy Hood, Pat Gearhart, Bill Higgins, Fred Alt, Herbert Morse, MelissaAdde
Left to Right: Betty Mushinski, Beverly Mock, Ron Schwartz, Katherine Knight, Michael Reth
Left to Right: Teo Pulvirenti, Alan Sher; Patrick Wilson, Shuling Zhang, Wendy DuBois, Lena Diaw
Left to Right: Lena Diaw, Gary Jones, Jim Owens, Shuling Zhang, Matthew Scharff, Pat Gearhart, Rob Maul