Antony "Tony" Oliver Ward Stretton, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist

Neuroscience

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, faculty member of the Neuroscience Training Program, and the John Bascom Professor

John Bascom

John Bascom was born on May 1, 1827 in Genoa, New York and was a graduate of Williams College with the class of 1849. He graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1855. Besides the degrees he got in those places, he held many other scholarly and honorary degrees...

 of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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. He is married to fellow scientist, Philippa Claude.

Tony worked with Vernon M. Ingram

Vernon Ingram

Vernon M. Ingram, Ph.D., FRS was a German American professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-Biography:Ingram was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia...

 first in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 at the Cavendish Laboratory

Cavendish Laboratory

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 of the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 then in the United States

United States

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 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 as well as with Edward A. Kravitz

Edward Kravitz

Edward Arthur Kravitz, Ph.D. is the George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Early in his scientific career Ed and colleagues demonstrated that gamma-aminobutyric acid functions as a neurotransmitter...

 at the Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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 of Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He has also done research at the Marine Biological Laboratory

Marine Biological Laboratory

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 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Woods Hole, Massachusetts

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Honors and Awards (incomplete)

• Distinguished Teaching Awards: Chancellor's Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2007)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Mentees (incomplete)

Doctoral Students

• Steven J. Burden, Neuroscience (1973–1977)
• Ralph E. Davis, Neuroscience (1978–1984)
• Patrick Matthew Hanrahan
  Pat Hanrahan
  Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University....
  
  , Biophysics (1985)
• James D. Angstadt, Neuroscience (1981–1986)
• John Guastella, Neuroscience (1978–1988)
• Marsha A. Segerberg, Neuroscience (1979–1989)
• Jeffrey A. Meade, Neuroscience (1985–1991)
• Catharine A. Reinitz, Neuroscience (1989–1993)
• Ivan Chevere-Colon, Neuroscience (1992–2001)
• Joanne Yew, Neuroscience (1996–2003)
• Jennifer C. Nanda, Neuroscience (1997–2004)
• Jennifer Cho, Neuroscience (2004)
• Gaoussou Diarra, Zoology (2006)

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Carl D. Johnson (1976–1986)
• Arthur S. Edison (1993–1996)

Selected publications

• Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1959) "Genetic basis of the thalassaemia diseases", Nature, 184:1903-1909.[CrossRef][Medline]
• Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1961) "Human haemoglobin A2: chemistry, genetics and evolution", Nature 190:1079-1084
• Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1962) "Human haemoglobin A2. I. Comparisons of haemoglobins A2 and A", Biochim. Biophys. Acta 62:456-474
• Ingram, V. M. and A. O. W. Stretton, (1962) "Human haemoglobin A2. II. The chemistry of some peptides peculiar to haemoglobin A2", Biochim. Biophys. Acta 63:20-33
• Stretton A.O., Kravitz E.A., (1968), "Neuronal geometry: determination with a technique of intracellular dye injection", Science, 162: p. 132-4. Science 4 October 1968: Vol. 162. no. 3849, pp. 132 – 134
• Stretton A.O.W. (2002) "The First Sequence: Fred Sanger and Insulin", Genetics, Vol. 162, 527-532, October 2002,
• Stretton, A. O. W. , Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Cambridge (1960)