Talk:Lynn Riddiford

My edits
On August 26, 2018, I edited my Wikipedia page to remove the errors in it. Apparently I did not properly indicate that as the named person that I had a conflict of interest. I would appreciate your letting the changes stand or tell me how these changes can be made. Lmrt1$ (talk) 17:24, 27 August 2018 (UTC)Lynn M. Riddiford, University of Washington
 * Please first email in order for us to verify your identity. -- The SandDoctor  Talk 18:41, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I added it to the userpage etc and to the top of this page a few days ago, but I guess I better put it here as well. She is OTRS verified. (cc ) -- The SandDoctor Talk 05:42, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Proposed Citations for Verification of Information Where Requested
The following information is documentation for the statements in my biography where Wikipedia has requested verification. I have separated it into the various sections.

Education Graduate work at Cornell University (Ph.D., 1961) Mentor, Professor Marcus Singer, Department of Zoology . This paper was done in Professor Singer’s laboratory and he is thanked in the Acknowledgements. Mentor, Professor Harold Scheraga, Department of Chemistry

Career Edsall Laboratory (postdoc, 1961-63) Mentioned as a member of his laboratory that contributed to carbonic anhydrase work. Both papers were done in Professor Edsall’s laboratory, and he is thanked in the Acknowledgements. My third paper from that time was

Wellesley College documentation of my time on the faculty there

Janelia Research Campus, HHMI See https://www.janelia.org/our-research/overview/former-labs for dates of my appointment at Janelia. Lmrt1$ (talk) 17:25, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

I've checked out these sources, and added them in with urls when possible. I don't think we need to add in every paper for the post-doc...there are far too many! Instead, I only included the piece by your mentor Dr. Edsall --Anna (talk) 23:19, 5 October 2018(EST)

There is not much to do until we hear back from the editors at OTRS, but in the meantime, I would like to ask one question if I could (and I apologize in advance for its surreptitious nature). Many of Dr. Riddiford's students personally thanked her for the input they received while she was at the University of Washington, where she inspired so many students in the cause of biology. One student in particular was appreciative of a gift that Dr Riddiford had given to them which helped in their cloning of scolexin. Could you tell us which libraries this gift likely came from? When ready with your reply, please alter the edit request template's answer parameter to read from   to  . Thank you!  spintendo   18:59, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

The day 1 cDNA library from which scolexin was cloned was prepared from day 1 5th instar Manduca sexta dorsal abdominal epidermis as described by Lmrt1$ (talk) 20:54, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much for you response, it's much appreciated. Now you referenced Li with the '92 Manduca article, but surely you meant Lohmann, correct? I'm not familiar with Li. In any event, there were quite a few on that topic in the 90's, I think that type of hornworm is a hideous creature but fascinating nonetheless.  spintendo   23:11, 31 August 2018 (UTC)


 * As far as the remaining citation needed tags, here are the references I would like to see which I believe would resolve the tags:
 * "She received her Ph.D. in Zoology at Cornell University in 1961 advised by Professors Marcus Singer and Harold Scheraga." All that is needed here is the name of the doctoral thesis written by her at Cornell. That dissertation should list her adviser's names and can easily be cited using the   template. Of her articles listed thus far, I don't see her thesis.
 * "Riddiford returned to Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow in John Edsall's laboratory for two years." Any articles written during her time in Edsall's lab at Harvard or anything written while teaching at Wellesley (although being an instructor likely meant that there was nothing written during that time) would work here. A key piece of information we could use here from these articles would be either the article's names (not the journal name) or even better the DOI used for the article. DOI's are the easiest way to track down articles for use as references on Wikipedia (which may be difficult for anything pre-1990's). If you have the DOI's for the ones you've listed already, especially those which fall under the time periods where a citation needed template has been placed, those would be the one's needed most.
 * Beyond that if there was anything else which needed correcting please let use know. Thank you!  spintendo   04:48, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Additional Information about My Ph.D. Dissertation and Early Publications

 * Ph. D. thesis:  

The paper that I did as a graduate student in Professor Marcus Singer's laboratory is     The work that I did in Professor Scheraga's laboratory became my Ph.D. dissertation indicated above and published as two separate papers: 1) 2)
 * Articles from my postdoctoral work in Professor Edsall's laboratory: 1) . 2) 3)

The following article was done primarily while I was an Instructor at Wellesley College as indicated in a footnote on the first page of the article:. I could not find DOI numbers for any of these 4 Journal of Biological Chemistry articles. Lmrt1$ (talk) 00:24, 29 September 2018 (UTC)