Laurence Marvin Sandler (1929–1987) was a "leading Drosophila geneticist",[1] active during the mid-20th century.
(Meiotic drive is when one copy of a gene is passed on to offspring more than the expected 50% of the time.)
[1] After joining the lab of Jim Crow at the University of Wisconsin, Sandler and Yuichiro Hiraizumi began working on segregation distortion, publishing several papers together.
[1] There he supervised numerous graduate students who joined the field, including Bruce Baker, Adelaide T. Carpenter, Ian Duncan, Barry Ganetzky, Larry Goldstein, Kent Golic, Jeff Hall, Scott Hawley, Jim Mason, John Merriam, Joe O'Tousa, Leonard Robbins, Paul Szauter, Bill Sullivan, Jon Tomkiel, and Glenn Yasuda.
[1] Sandler was professionally active, involved in the founding of the Drosophila Research Conference, and transferring it to the Genetics Society of America.