Issue 29: A scientist with a taste for the bizarre

When you take a look at the career of microbiologist George Chaconas, there’s a clearly identifiable moment when the focus of his research abruptly shifted from the study of one fairly obscure organism to that of another. 

Prior to 1999, Chaconas spent much of his time concentrating on the bacteriophage Mu, a strange hybrid of an organism that combines t…