Abstract
Fred Sherman was a prominent yeast geneticist and my mentor in graduate school. Fred passed away in September 2013 at the age of 81. In this minireview, I describe what it was like to know Fred and be in his lab from 1977 to 1982, the extraordinarily exciting time when the recombinant DNA revolution hit yeast genetics.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I thank Gary McKnight for comments and Eileen Hulme for preparation of the manuscript.
NIH grant R37GM36477 provided for support of this work.