Jacqueline Halle Sinks Jakway (1928 - 25 March 2008) a professor of

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and cell biology.

Background

Jakway was born Jacqueline Halle Sinks in 1928 in

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, later moving to

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. Jakway attended

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in 1946, followed by attending

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in Parkville, earning a BA in biology in 1950, and then in 1958 pursued a PhD in anatomy from the

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. Jakway worked her postdoc at the

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becoming an assistant professor of anatomy at the

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in 1961. Jakway then moved to New York and taught gross anatomy and neuroanatomy as an associate professor of anatomy and cell biology at the State University of New York Downstate Medical College from 1967 to 2008.

Publications

Jakway's PhD was focused on the genetic inheritance patterns in

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and she produced several publications during this period, including "An Inherited Spermatogenic Hypoplasia in the Guinea Pig", "The inheritance of patterns of sexual behaviour in female guinea pigs", and "Inheritance of patterns of mating behaviour in the male guinea pig". Jakway then went on to study the anatomy of the eye and publish "A Perspective on the Fundamental Retinal Projections of Vertebrates" and "Retinal Projections in the Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum".

References

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