When I started my independent research lab in 1989, I did not know Terri Grodzicker and I did not realize that she was just beginning what would become her decades-long leadership of Genes & Development. G&D had been founded just 2 years before (Inglis 2007), and as my lab developed I watched G&D rapidly join the ranks of the most respected, most influential, and most selective molecular biology journals. People weren't talking so much about “impact” at that time, but it was clear to me that G&D papers had it. In the words of former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, “I know it when I see it.” Of course, he was talking about something else. But I digress.

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基因与我的成长

当我在 1989 年开始我的独立研究实验室时，我不认识 Terri Grodzicker，我也没有意识到她才刚刚开始她对基因与发育长达数十年的领导。G&D成立仅 2 年（Inglis 2007），随着我实验室的发展，我看到G&D迅速跻身最受尊敬、最具影响力和最具选择性的分子生物学期刊行列。当时人们并没有过多地谈论“影响”，但我很清楚G&D 的论文有它。用前最高法院大法官波特斯图尔特的话来说，“当我看到它时，我就知道了。” 当然，他说的是别的。但我离题了。