George Weinstock

Weinstock's parents met during the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and he grew up meeting many of the participants in the atomic bomb project and their colleagues. He performed his PhD thesis under David Botstein at MIT, studying the structure of phage P22 chromosome.
As a postdoctoral fellow with I. R. Lehman at Stanford University School of Medicine, Weinstock and Kevin McEntee discovered that the RecA protein of ''E. coli'' catalyzed strand transfer in genetic recombination. Later, as a faculty member at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, he led one of the first bacterial genome projects, collaborating with The Institute for Genomic Research to sequence the entire genome of a bacterium, ''Treponema pallidum'', the organism that causes syphilis. In 1999 he joined Richard Gibbs at the HGSC as one of the five main centers to work on the Human Genome Project. The HGSC produced sequences of human chromosomes 3, 12 and X. Weinstock was a principal investigator in projects producing genome sequences for rat, mouse, macaque, bovine, sea urchin, honey bee, fruit fly and many microbial genomes, as well as one of the first personal genome projects, sequencing James Watson’s genome using next-generation sequencing technology.
He was a leader of the Human Microbiome Project, studying the collection of microbes that colonize the human body. Provided by Wikipedia