KQED-TV to air doc on late revolutionary biologist Allan Wilson

San Francisco - Berkeley - Psychologist Jack Block, 85, has died Positive prospects for California's green businesses, study finds Chancelllor Birgeneau announces senior-management transition plans, as Brostrom accepts UCOP position UC to cut fewer freshmen from fall 2010 enrollment NSF grant to launch world's first open-source genetic parts production facility - Where once biologists compared bones, body shape and behavior to determine which species were related, Wilson showed that comparing protein and gene sequences can lead to improved phylogenetic trees and a better understanding of evolution. The New Zealander's life and legacy were profiled in a 2008 documentary, "Allan Wilson: Evolutionary," that will receive its broadcast premiere on KQED-TV at noon on Sunday, Feb. 8, and be rebroadcast on KQED World (Digital Channel 9. Comcast Cable Channel 190) the following Saturday, Feb. 14, at 10 p.m. The 41-minute documentary, written and directed by New Zealander George Andrews and narrated by UC Berkeley's Tim White, professor of integrative biology, includes interviews with many current and former UC Berkeley scientists and many of Wilson's students, who have pushed Wilson's bold ideas into every realm of biology. "He (Wilson), with his students, essentially invented the field of molecular phylogenetics, the modern application of genomics to the study of evolution," said Geoffrey Owen, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of molecular and cell biology and former dean of the biological sciences who assisted Andrews with the documentary.