Never gets old 🤩

Absurd

So awesome to see this! Congrats :)

Also, I will always take credit for being the person who convinced him to get his first smartphone and taught him how to take selfies

He was a consummate gentleman and scientist. The ways he treated people, loved science, and ran his lab are all things I’ve always tried to emulate. He had an outsize impact on me and so many others, and he will be sorely missed.

He entrusted me with resources and space to try things, ask for help, fail, and succeed on my own. He had tea with us every day and chatted freely about life and science. He always kept doing benchwork – his office had a microscope, incubator, and injection rig so he could do his own experiments.

Even as an inexperienced student, John treated me - and everyone in his lab - as a colleague. When I showed up on my first day, John was the one who met me at the front door to let me in and show me around the institute which bore his own last name.

When I was an undergraduate just starting lab work, I (somewhat naively) cold emailed John asking if I could work in his lab for the summer. Even though I was just a random student from the US that really had barely any experience to speak of then, John agreed to take me on.

😭😭😭 devastated to hear this honestly — Thank you for everything Kevin!! Have loved ZR at every stage and appreciate everything you’ve done for the community

Good luck - excited to see what you do next!

Congratulations!!

Zebrafish Rock! is, no joke, a core part of the fish community that helps tie it all together

This is gonna kill my productivity if this is true 😭

Congratulations!

Counterpoint: the synthetic wolf species thing could never have happened without NIH funded research in academia happening first