Nobel Laureate Lee Hartwell, second from right, posed with yeast geneticists and former colleagues from the UW Department of Genetics, now known as the Department of Genome Sciences, at a luncheon given to honor him by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) Board of Trustees on Nov. 29. Hartwell's work with yeast has provided important information on how cells control their replication and how the process can go awry; starting some 30 years ago, most of this work was done in the UW Department of Genetics when it was part of the College of Arts and Sciences.

In the photo, from left, are Dr. Breck Byers; Caryl Roman, widow of Herschel Roman, genetics department founding chair; Dr. Ben Hall and Dr. Walt Fangman. Hartwell is now president and director of FHCRC, UW professor of genome sciences and adjunct professor of medicine.

Theater performers from UMO Ensemble (Bradley McDevitt, left, and David Godsey, right) portray a dividing yeast cell at a celebration for Lee Hartwell, who will accept the 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology this month in Sweden. Hartwell directs Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and is a professor of genomic sciences at the UW. He received the Nobel Prize for research contributing to the understanding of cell division. He conducted his research on baker's yeast. Photo by Guy Kramer, courtesy of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.