Woody Hastings
| John Woodland Hastings | |
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| Born |
March 24, 1927 Salisbury, Maryland |
| Died | August 6, 2014 (aged 87) Lexington, Massachusetts |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Bioluminescence, Circadian rhythms |
| Institutions |
Instructor in Biological Sciences Northwestern University 1953-1957 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry University of Illinois 1957-1966 Professor of Biology Harvard University, 1966-1986; Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences Harvard University 1986 - present |
| Alma mater |
Swarthmore College, 1944-1947; BA 1947 (Navy V-12 medical officers training program) Princeton University, 1948-1951; M.A. 1950, PhD. 1951 - adviser E. N. Harvey Johns Hopkins University, 1951-1953 Postdoctoral Fellow with W. D. McElroy |
| Doctoral students | David Johnson States |
| Known for | Founding circadian biology |
| Notable awards | NATO Senior Fellow in Science, Foundation Curie, Orsay, France, 1977 |
Instructor in Biological Sciences Northwestern University 1953-1957 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry University of Illinois 1957-1966 Professor of Biology Harvard University, 1966-1986;
Swarthmore College, 1944-1947; BA 1947 (Navy V-12 medical officers training program) Princeton University, 1948-1951; M.A. 1950, PhD. 1951 - adviser E. N. Harvey
John Woodland "Woody" Hastings, (March 24, 1927 – August 6, 2014) was a leader in the field of photobiology, especially bioluminescence, and is one of the founders of the field of circadian biology (the study of circadian rhythms, or the sleep-wake cycle). He is the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He has published over 400 papers and co-edited three books.
Hastings research on bioluminescence has principally focused on bacterial luminescence (over 150 papers) and dinoflagellates (over 80 papers). In addition to bacteria and dinoflagellates, he, with his students and colleagues, has published papers on the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of light production in fungi, cnidarians, ctenophores, polychaetes, insects (fireflies and dipterans), ostracod crustaceans, millipedes, tunicates, and fishes with bacterial light organs. His laboratory produced the first evidence for quorum sensing in bacteria, early evidence of the molecular mechanisms of circadian clock regulation in organisms (first using dinoflagellate luminescence and then expanded to other cellular proteins), and some of the initial studies of energy transfer in green fluorescent proteins (GFP) in cnidarian luminescence.
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