Acknowledgements: We thank Barry L. Stoddard (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), David Corey (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas), Jean O. Thomas and Katherine Stott (both Cambridge University), Vladimir Teif (University of Essex) and Geneviève Almouzni (Institute Curie) for critical reading of manuscript drafts and helpful comments. Thanks to Max Crane-Robinson for the photo of his father. This text is in part based on a fragmentary short autobiographical text written by Colyn Crane-Robinson. P.V.W.’s work is supported by the University of Essex, a grant from N3CRs (NC/W001047/1), and a FAPESP São Paulo Chair of Excellence special scheme (2019/16113–5). Work in the R.S. laboratory is supported by the DFG through SFB 1064 (Project-ID 213249687), SFB 1309 (Project-ID 325871075) and the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft.

Funder: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001656