Willis A. Wood
Willis Avery “Woody” Wood (August 6, 1921 – January 17, 2021)[1] was an American microbiology professor, an inventor, and an entrepreneur. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1980. Wood was known for his research on bacterial enzymes and the molecular biology of sugars and amino acids.[2]
Biography
Wood graduated from high school in
L-threonine. This finding was a first in the enzymology of ligand-induced oligomerization.[2]
At Michigan State, Wood developed a recording spectrophotometer with a new photomultiplier arrangement and an automatic
Pasadena.[1]
In 1955, he received the Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award.[3]
In 1947, he married Alice Jane Spencer of
Nimmonsburg, New York. She died in 1975. In 1976, he married Hazel Katherine (Reiten) LeGrand of Iron Mountain, Michigan. His second wife died in 2012. Upon his death he was survived by three children from his first marriage, four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.[1]
Selected publications
- Mortlock, R. P.; Wood, W. A. (1964). "Metabolism of Pentoses and Pentitols by Aerobacter aerogenes I". Journal of Bacteriology. 88 (4): 838–844. PMID 14219044.
- Mortlock, R. P.; Fossitt, D. D.; Wood, W. A. (1965). "A basis for utlization of unnatural pentoses and pentitols by Aerobacter aerogenes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 54 (2): 572–579. PMID 5217444.
- Wood, W. A. (1966). "Carbohydrate Metabolism". Annual Review of Biochemistry. 35: 521–558. PMID 5329468.
- Hollaender, Alexander, ed. (6 December 2012). "Basic Biology of Microbial Fermentation by Willis A. Wood". Trends in the Biology of Fermentations for Fuels and Chemicals (Proceedings of a symposium of trends in the biology of fermentation for fuels and chemicals held December 7–11, 1980, at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York). Basic Life Science, volume 18. Springer. pp. 3–17. ISBN 9781468439809; pbk reprint)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link - Bishop, David F.; Kitchen, Hyram; Wood, Willis A. (1981). "Evidence for erythroid and nonerythroid forms of δ-aminolevulinate synthetase". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 206 (2): 380–391. PMID 7224646.
- Davey, Mary E.; Wood, Willis A.; Key, Rebekah; Nakamura, Kanji; Stahl, David A. (1993). "Isolation of Three Species of Geotoga and Petrotoga: Two New Genera, Representing a New Lineage in the Bacterial Line of Descent Distantly Related to the "Thermotogales"". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 16 (2): 191–200. .
- Davey, Mary E.; Gevertz, Diane; Wood, Willis A.; Clark, James B.; Jenneman, Gary E. (1998). "Microbial selective plugging of sandstone through stimulation of indigenous bacteria in a hypersaline oil reservoir". Geomicrobiology Journal. 15 (4): 335–352. .
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Willis Avery Wood Obituary (2021)". Carmel Valley News. January 28, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Beitz, Don. "In Memoriam: Wood, Willis Avery (Woody) (1921–2021)". American Society for Microbiology.
- ^ a b ASBMB Today Staff (February 25, 2021). "In memoriam: Willis Wood — Remembering Wood and Sorimachi". ASBMB Today (The Member Magazine of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology).
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