Fink Lab

Colleagues and former students gathered, on the occasion of his retirement, to reflect on Fink’s extraordinary career and his transformative role in science.

Some of the most important tools in researchers’ toolkits are the model organisms they use to study biological questions. How do researchers decide which species, out of the millions that exist, to develop as models? Whitehead Institute researchers have had a hand in establishing and promoting the use of several model organisms over the years.

The new system streamlines the process of fermenting plant sugar to fuel by helping yeast survive industrial toxins.

In honoring him with the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, GSA is recognizing Fink’s discovery of principles central to genome organization and regulation in eukaryotic cells.

A standing-room-only audience of faculty and students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offered rapt attention as Whitehead Institute Founding Member and former director Gerald R. Fink delivered MIT’s prestigious Killian Award Lecture

Decades of pioneering plant research at Whitehead Institute have led to biological insights and useful discoveries