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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: Jul 20, 2017

David Burton Wake

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Page Range: 415 – 426
DOI: 10.1643/OT-17-636
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(A) Dave and his father Tommy. (B) One of the few photos of Dave with a pet. (C) Young Dave.

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Dave and Marvalee with son Tom and granddaughter Summer, December 2016. Photo by Chrissy Campbell.

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Typical day at the office at UC Berkeley.

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(A) Typical weekly lab meeting in which Dave would review his interesting mail, students would talk about progress on their projects, literature would be discussed, and birthdays celebrated. Front row L to R: Shawn Kuchta, Erica Rosenblum, (table), Steve Poe, Adam Summers; Back row L to R: Martin Jaekel, Javier Rodriguez, Seth Thomas, Rachel Mueller, Arie van der Meijden, Dave. (B) At the Sixth Conference on the Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders at the University of Tulsa in 2014 there were 12 Ph.D. students (including Sean Reilly, Sean Rovito, and Tom Devitt—with whom Dave worked closely although they were not formally his students), four postdocs, and three academic grandchildren of Dave's. Pictured, left to right, Zach Lewis (academic grandchild via Jim Hanken), Chris Evelyn (academic grandchild via Sam Sweet), Sean Reilly (current collaborator; also academic grandchild via Sharyn Marks), Tom Devitt, Sean Rovito (postdoc), Peng Zhang (postdoc), Meredith Mahoney (Ph.D. student), Shawn Kuchta (Ph.D. student), Ron Bonett (postdoc), Elizabeth Jockusch (Ph.D. student), Dave Wake, Nancy Staub (Ph.D. student), Stan Sessions (Ph.D. student), Sharyn Marks (Ph.D. student), Jim Hanken (Ph.D. student), Lynne Houck (Ph.D. student), Eric Lombard (Ph.D. student and postdoc).

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Digging pitfall traps for Ensatina in the Sierra Nevada. From left: Nancy Staub, Dave, Andres Collazo, Chuck Brown. Photo by George Roderick.

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Dave and Jim Patton have been colleagues and have shared a lab since 1969. Jim is a mammalogist and served as Associate Director of MVZ during Dave's tenure as Director, and succeeded him as Acting Director for a couple of years before Craig Moritz took over. Photo by Dick Sage, February 2017. Pictured, left to right, Dave, Marvalee, Jim Patton, long-time collaborator Ted Papenfuss, Dick Sage (manager of MVZ's Evolutionary Genetics lab in the 1980s).