Bill's Website
Welcome!
As you might infer from the navigation bar above, this site consists of multiple parts. There’s a blog about what I’ve learned and what I’ve been experiencing as I deal with Parkinson’s disease; a memoir written primarily for my grand kids – something they can remember me by; a gallery displaying some of my photographs, art work, and some artistic images of DNA; a list of books that I’ve written and some that are in progress; slides from some of the courses I’ve given to senior citizens in Austin; and a screenplay that is a spoof of an episode of Star Trek.
Enjoy!
October 17, 2023
Just published my fifth book on Amazon. It’s a novel called “Death Delivered” and is a semi-autobiographic murder mystery. You can purchase either a Kindle or hard copy version. You can learn more by going to the Amazon web site and entering my name.
The illustration above is an artistic rendering of p53, a transcription factor, bound to DNA. The original 3D rendering was done with Chimera, an application from UCSF.
About
Bill Sofer held faculty positions at Johns Hopkins University for ten years and at Rutgers University for 28. He taught Developmental Biology at Hopkins and Genetics at Rutgers. He’s the author of a book on genetic engineering, and four self published works: “Giants of Genetics”, “Cancer Immunotherapy: Basic Biology”, “Clones and Stem Cells: Past, Present and Potential”, and “Three to One: How Gregor Mendel Failed”, all of which are available as ebooks and as paperbacks. Over a twenty-plus year career working with fruit flies, he published some 30 research articles. He is currently retired and resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Gail, of over 55 years.