Lynn Dalgarno (born 12 November 1935) is an Australian geneticist known for the discovery of the Shine–Dalgarno sequence with his graduate student, John Shine.
[5] In 1968 Dalgarno accepted a post at ANU as a Senior Lecturer, and then as a Reader from 1983 until 1996, when he subsequently became a Research Fellow.
[7] His graduate student John Shine said Dalgarno was "a fantastic, enthusiastic lecturer, who was turned on by this molecular biology.
"[8] Dalgarno and Shine found the Shine–Dalgarno sequence,[9] described by ANU as "the beginnings of biotechnology":[10] In 1973, Lynn Dalgarno, from the ANU Department of Biochemistry, and his PhD student John Shine, proposed an initiating signal for protein synthesis in prokaryotic cells.
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