Antony Stretton

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Antony O. W. Stretton
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
AwardsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Distinguished Teaching Awards: Chancellor's Award
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience, Neurobiology, Neurochemistry, Neuroproteomics, Neurophysiology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Neuroscience, Electrophysiology
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisorVernon M. Ingram
Other academic advisorsSydney Brenner: Advisor, Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1961-1971),[1] Edward A. Kravitz: Advisor, Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1966-1968)[2]
Doctoral studentsPat Hanrahan

Antony "Tony" Oliver Ward Stretton is a neuroscientist, faculty member of the Neuroscience Training Program, and the John Bascom Professor of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[3] He is married to fellow scientist, Philippa Claude, daughter of Albert Claude.

Stretton worked with Vernon M. Ingram first in the United Kingdom at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge then in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as with Edward A. Kravitz at the Medical School of Harvard University. He has also done research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Honors and awards[edit]

  • Distinguished Teaching Awards: Chancellor's Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2007)[4]
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science[5]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1959) "Genetic basis of the thalassaemia diseases", Nature, 184:1903-1909.[CrossRef][Medline]
  • Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1961) "Human haemoglobin A2: chemistry, genetics and evolution", Nature 190:1079-1084
  • Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1962) "Human haemoglobin A2. I. Comparisons of haemoglobins A2 and A", Biochim. Biophys. Acta 62:456-474
  • Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1962) "Human haemoglobin A2. II. The chemistry of some peptides peculiar to haemoglobin A2", Biochim. Biophys. Acta 63:20-33
  • Stretton A.O., Kravitz E.A., (1968), "Neuronal geometry: determination with a technique of intracellular dye injection", Science, 162: p. 132-4. Science 4 October 1968: Vol. 162. no. 3849, pp. 132 – 134
  • Stretton A.O.W. (2002) "The First Sequence: Fred Sanger and Insulin", Genetics, Vol. 162, 527-532, October 2002,
  • Stretton, A. O. W., Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Cambridge (1960)

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Antony Stretton (Person) - WormBase : Nematode Information Resource".
  2. ^ "Untitled Document". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2009-05-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "UW-Madison announces 2007 Distinguished Teaching Award winners".
  5. ^ "AAAS - the World's Largest General Scientific Society". Archived from the original on 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2014-09-15.

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