Remembering Dr. Jackson Nteeba
August 28th, 1985 – January 7th, 2021
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The concept of academic families was introduced to me when I moved to the US and specifically when I started my postdoc with Dr. Patricia Hoyer. I learned that I was academically related to the legendary Dr. Gordon Niswender and Dr. Phil Dziuk through Pat and there are websites that you can use while waiting for an experiment to incubate to figure out your scientific ancestry! When I started my independent lab, I heard several more senior faculty say that the contribution they were most proud of was the graduate students they trained and it took my graduating my first students to appreciate what they really meant. Dr. Jackson Nteeba became involved with Iowa State University when he was an undergraduate student at Makerere University in Uganda through the School Gardens Program, a collaboration between ISU and Makerere University. Jackson joined my fledgling research group in the Fall semester of 2010 as a rotation student in the Interdepartmental Genetic Graduate Program at ISU. At that time, another student, Dr. Jill Madden was already in the group and a third, Dr. Shanthi Ganesan joined soon after. Jackson was a stellar student, both academically as well as in the lab. He told me one day that he was