A personal tribute to Terry Beveridge

Abstract

I met Terry Beveridge in the fall of 1994, when my Ph.D. advisor, Francois Morel, sent me to visit Terry’s lab at the University of Guelph, Ontario, for a week. Francois had met Terry at a meeting in France a few years prior, and they had hit it off discussing science over some good wine (or perhaps it was scotch?). Only a year into my Ph.D. studies, I was excited by the opportunity to visit Guelph, yet without the perspective to fully appreciate what an act of generosity this was on both their parts. Now, over two decades later, I realize just how special it was — my primary mentor was enabling me to pursue a research project that was tangential to his own research interests, and my soon-to-be microbiology mentor was opening his lab to a young stranger from another country.