Dear Terri, it is a very special privilege and honor for me to write this note of thanks for your lasting and impactful contribution to the advancement of science through your 35 yr of service as the Editor of Genes & Development (which we all refer to, of course, as “G&D”). Under your leadership, G&D quickly and very impressively rose to the top tier of journals in the biological sciences, and it has published countless landmark papers. I am very fortunate to be a coauthor on 28 G&D papers, which include a nice body of work on the RNA polymerase II core promoter as well as advances in diverse areas of chromatin dynamics and transcription. I was also very fortunate to have served on the G&D Editorial Board for 13 years (1994–2007). In that capacity, I even had the questionable distinction of being the person who reviewed the most papers for G&D in one particular year.

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亲爱的 Terri，我非常荣幸地写下这篇感谢信，感谢您作为 Genes & Development（我们都提到，当然，作为“ G&D ”）。在您的领导下，G&D迅速崛起为生物科学领域的顶级期刊，并发表了无数具有里程碑意义的论文。我很幸运能成为 28 篇G&D论文的合著者，其中包括关于 RNA 聚合酶 II 核心启动子的大量工作以及染色质动力学和转录等不同领域的进展。我也很幸运能在G&D服役编辑委员会 13 年（1994-2007）。以这种身份，我什至在某一年成为审查G​​&D论文最多的人这一令人怀疑的荣誉。