Tribute and a Perspective

By : Govindjee Govindjee, Alaka Srivastava, Alexandrina Stirbet, Vineet Soni, Neera Bhalla Sarin

Page No: 147-158

Abstract
After presenting a very brief insight into the life of Reto Jörg Strasser, we provide here first a glimpse of his joint research with Govindjee, in the 1990s, done at the Bioenergetics laboratory, University of Geneva, Switzerland. They both had the most wonderful time there; Reto’s collaborative spirit was superb. The two have interacted with each other since then and have continued even after their retirement(s). This is followed by a brief description of this interaction as well as a glimpse of Reto’s life and career. Then, Alaka Srivastava and Sandra Stirbet, who have worked with Reto for around eight years, in Geneva, Switzerland, Vineet Soni, who did a post-doc with Reto, and Neera Bhalla Sarin, who had worked with Reto in New Delhi, India, provide their tributes to Reto by remembering their time with him. We all honor Reto Jörg Strasser on his 75th birthday that was in December, 2018. Some of us expect our collaboration to continue in the future. To all of us, Reto is an innovator of the highest order, and a wonderful friend. He is dedicated to his family, his friends, his students and all his collaborators–worldwide. He is indeed a special person; we have included here several photographs to document our camaraderie with him.

Authors :
Govindjee : Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, and Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Alaka Srivastava : MP Biomedicals LLC, 29525 Fountain Parkway, Solon, OH 44139, USA
Alexandrina Stirbet : 204 Anne Burras Lane, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
Vineet Soni : Department of Botany, Mohan Lal Sukhadia (MLS) University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Neera Bhalla Sarin : School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPSR.2019.35.02.1