Yes, the Brian Gilman listed as an author of this week's celebrated Nature article on the mapping of the human genome is one of ours.
And as the article was coming out, the '98 grad took a moment to thank some of the profs who helped contribute to “one of the happiest moments of my life.”
“It was at Union that I had the opportunity to delve into the world of research,” he wrote this week in an e-mail. “Jill Salvo (biology) took a very green freshman into her lab, where I learned what research was all about.
“Steve Horton (biology) let me 'figure it out and come back to me' … without your patience and guidance I don't think I would have made it here.”
Gilman also acknowledged Profs. Rob Olberg and Steve Lauzon, who “helped me find clever solutions to problems and challenge scientific establishment.”
Gilman, a biochemistry major at Union, is the paper's first author from the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, a lead group in one of two teams mapping the DNA-encoded information that specifies human physiology.