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Daniel Lackner, a former Salk postdoctoral fellow who worked in the lab of Jan Karlseder from 2008 to 2014, passed away August 31 from complications related to a rare teratoid tumor.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes we have the privilege to meet extraordinary people in our careers. Daniel was one of those. He was an amazingly creative scientist, a wonderfully generous person, a loving father to his sons and husband to his wife and a true friend. I am honored to have known Dan and miss him greatly,\u201d Karlseder says.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Lackner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lackner received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, focusing on transcriptional and translational analysis of the S. pombe<\/em> (a yeast) genome.<\/p>\n

He came to Salk for his postdoctoral fellowship in 2008, where he studied telomere biology and aging as a postdoc in the Karlseder Lab. He made several achievements of note during this time, including:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Engineering a Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em> (roundworm) strain that survives without telomerase, thereby demonstrating that a multicellular organism can exist, where telomeres are only maintained by recombination<\/p>\n

\u2013 Defining genome-wide signatures to distinguish between replicative senescence, damage induced senescence, the acute and sustained DNA damage response<\/p>\n

\u2013 Establishing the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis<\/em> as model for telomere biology<\/p>\n

\u201cDaniel was one of the most fun-loving, kind-hearted and warm people I\u2019ve had the good fortune to call a friend,\u201d says Robert Radford, Research Associate in the Karlseder lab. \u201cHis bright outlook on everything spread to everyone who came in contact with him. His friendship meant a lot to many of us here at the Salk Institute and his memory will stay with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Salk, Lackner worked at Horizon Discovery in Vienna, Austria, where he led a team that generated haploid knockout cell lines for research, using CRISPR\/Cas9 approaches.<\/p>\n

He then became independent scientific project manager at the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, working directly with the director of that institution. He used his widespread scientific knowledge and remarkable interpersonal skills to successfully coordinate thirteen EU-wide partnerships between academics and industry to connect scientists with very different backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Lackner is survived by his wife, Sofia, also a Salk alumnus, who worked with former Assistant Professor Leanne Jones in the Laboratory of Genetics, and their two, young sons, Leonidas and Odysseas.<\/p>\n

What other former colleagues say about Daniel Lackner:<\/p>\n

\u201cDaniel was a top guy with a great sense of fun and humor. We spent several late, late nights out in Pacific Beach, at Aero Club, or just visiting after dinner and discussed all sorts of local and worldly things. In his approach to science he was thoughtful and always asked the dreaded challenging questions in lab meeting, always looking for another angle. But more than anything, he was such a proud and wonderful father \u2013 he really thrived in the roll. He will be sorely missed, but remembered fondly.\u201d \u2013 Roddy O\u2019Sullivan, former Salk postdoc, current assistant professor, Pittsburgh Cancer Center<\/p>\n

\u201cI only know Daniel from my 3-month internship in 2012. However, even in this short period of time, he made a lasting impression on me. I remember his positive energy, creativity and his general deep curiosity. I was especially intrigued by his attempt to establish a sea anemone as a model system for aging. It is all very sad.\u201d \u2013 Tobias Schmidt, Salk postdoctoral fellow, Karlseder Lab<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have enough words to describe how wonderful he was. I just would like to say that his cute character and his big heart made him a great lab mate but also a very special friend. We are all very thankful for having crossed paths with him. We will always remember his optimism and positive energy and all the good times we shared at his side.\u201d \u2013 Teresa Rivera, former Salk postdoc, and current staff scientist, Allele Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals, San Diego<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will be greatly missed, Daniel. I cannot thank you enough your help and kindness when I first arrived in San Diego. Your positive energy and drive are inspiring to all of us. All my love to you.\u201d \u2013 Javier Miralles Fust\u00e9, Salk postdoctoral fellow, Karlseder Lab<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel blessed to have known Daniel. We sat side-by-side for five years; we shared a bay together, witnessed each other\u2019s life-changing moments\u2014marriage and children. He made science fun, and there wasn\u2019t a day we didn\u2019t laugh together. He was an adoring husband and father, an amazing photographer (I will cherish some of his photography forever!), a wonderful human and a dear friend. He was well-liked and saw the good in everyone. He was a silver lining kind of guy. I will miss him dearly and miss our boys playing together. My heart goes out to Sofia and the boys; what a gut-wrenching loss\u2026May they find solace in each other and in knowing how loved Daniel was by all who were lucky enough to have come across him.\u201d \u2013 Liana Oganesian, former Salk postdoc<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-24093","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSalk mourns the loss of postgrad alumnus - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-mourns-the-loss-of-postgrad-alumnus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk mourns the loss of postgrad alumnus - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daniel Lackner, a former Salk postdoctoral fellow who worked in the lab of Jan Karlseder from 2008 to 2014, passed away August 31 from complications related to a rare teratoid tumor.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-mourns-the-loss-of-postgrad-alumnus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-09-12T13:54:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Daniels-Bild-Verabschiedung300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/news-release\\\/salk-mourns-the-loss-of-postgrad-alumnus\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/news-release\\\/salk-mourns-the-loss-of-postgrad-alumnus\\\/\",\"name\":\"Salk mourns the loss of postgrad alumnus - 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