Charles Hoffman has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says, not tersely:
I am a molecular geneticist who uses the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe to study cyclic nucleotide signaling. I am so focused on my research that I rarely notice how long my hair has grown. Every year or two, my daughter insists on cutting it so that it does not reach my waste. I have come to see my hair as part of my “brand”, otherwise I’d be just another short Jewish yeast geneticist.
Charles Hoffman, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Professor of Biology
Boston College
Boston, Massachusetts, USA