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; 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!
Sept 5, 2024
This is a portrait of the protein, alpha-synuclein. In Parkinson’s it forms insoluble clumps called Lewy bodies that have been implicated in the etiology of the disorder.
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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. They’ve been married for close to 60 years and have two sons and three grandsons.