title: Ian Dawes-the third Pope-lucky to be a researcher.
abstract: Retrospective articles are an excuse for a rosy tinted view of one's life. This fully expurgated version is no exception. No "what the butler saw" or the vilification of enemies that one finds in political autobiographies - merely the account of one born to a generation of those whose forebears never had the chance to go to university and enjoy the subsequent fruits of that education - and of one who by chance stumbled into the world of yeast genetics and molecular biology, who had a lot of fun on the way and who never sought to leave it.
authors.affiliation: School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia i.dawes@unsw.edu.au.
authors.forename: Ian W
authors.initials: IW
authors.lastname: Dawes
mesh_terms: D005658:Fungi / Q000235:genetics*; D005827:Genetics, Microbial / Q000639:trends*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000639:trends*; D012108:Research Personnel
keywords: dawes; retrospective; yeast