> Dr. Kerr told us all we really needed to know back in the fifties.

Fortunately, Dr. Kerr did not feel that way. He has continued to study bees into his late 80s.

> In 1951, Kerr was awarded a Rockefeller foundation fellowship, which he used to study in the laboratories of the eminent geneticists Theodosius Dobzhansky and Sewall Wright, at Columbia University in New York. In 1964, Kerr founded the Genetics Department of the University of Sao Paulo Medical School in Ribeirao Preto; thanks to his leadership, this was the first department with professors from several colleges of the University of Sao Paulo. In 1971, Professor Kerr and his group of professors began a graduate program in Genetics at the Medical College of the University of Sao Paulo in Ribeirão Preto. 

> Today there are more than 60 graduate students in this department, and after 38 years, more than 500 Master's and Doctorate theses have been concluded in the various areas of genetics. Remarkably, at nearly 87, Kerr still participates actively in bee research at the university in Uberlandia. Wherever he goes, he is always teaching to students, authorities, professors, researchers, and anyone he meets along the way. It is hard not to be influenced by this amiable, remarkably humble and capable personality.

© Genetics and Molecular Research 8 (2): (2009)

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