Antony Stretton Explained

Antony O. W. Stretton
Fields:	Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Neurochemistry, Neuroproteomics, Neurophysiology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Neuroscience, Electrophysiology
Workplaces:	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alma Mater:	University of Cambridge
Doctoral Advisor:	Vernon M. Ingram
Academic Advisors:	Sydney Brenner: Advisor, Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1961-1971),^[1] Edward A. Kravitz: Advisor, Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1966-1968)^[2]
Doctoral Students:	Pat Hanrahan
Awards:	University of Wisconsin–Madison Distinguished Teaching Awards: Chancellor's Award

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

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

Selected publications

• 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)

References

• • http://www.zoology.wisc.edu/faculty/Stre/Stre.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080719041823/http://ntp.neuroscience.wisc.edu/faculty/stretton.html
• http://www.news.wisc.edu/13686
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110720114703/https://www.mbo.wisc.edu/SpecialProfessorships/NamedProfsFY8ByApp.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20081020092613/http://www.hms.harvard.edu/bss/neuro/kravitz/currentmember/Ed.html
• Ingram V.A. "Sickle-Cell Anemia Hemoglobin: The Molecular Biology of the First "Molecular Disease"—The Crucial Importance of Serendipity", Genetics, Vol. 167, 1-7, May 2004
• Ingram, Father of Molecular Medicine, Dies at 82.
• 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69459-2. Vernon Ingram. The Lancet. 368. 9542. 1148. 2006. Pincock. Stephen.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090111164922/http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/ingram.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090422003709/http://ntp.neuroscience.wisc.edu/resource/alumni/alumni.html
• http://www.zoology.wisc.edu/grad/Gradlist.htm
• http://www.wormbase.org/resources/person/WBPerson630
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070816100323/http://neuroethology.org/newsletter/news_archive/isn.news.mar00.htm
• http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0272%2FKC%2FKCAC%2F1%2F2%2F6%2F1%2FStretton

Notes and References

1. Web site: Antony Stretton (Person) - WormBase : Nematode Information Resource.
2. Web site: Untitled Document . 2009-10-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716161918/http://www.hms.harvard.edu/bss/neuro/kravitz/alumni/postdoc.html . 2011-07-16 .
3. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-05-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720114703/https://www.mbo.wisc.edu/SpecialProfessorships/NamedProfsFY8ByApp.pdf . 2011-07-20 .
4. Web site: UW-Madison announces 2007 Distinguished Teaching Award winners.
5. Web site: AAAS - the World's Largest General Scientific Society . 2014-09-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140115191304/http://php.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/list.php . 2014-01-15 .