DZINTRA K. INFANTE MALS’91

DZINTRA K. INFANTE MALS’91, a developmental cell biology researcher with her husband, Anthony Infante, Wesleyan professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, emeritus, died July 26, 2014. She was 77. Born in Latvia, she immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 9. She received a bachelor’s degree from Westhampton College of the University of Richmond and had a long productive professional life in industry and academia as a biochemical research assistant. Prior to joining the department at Wesleyan, where she received her MALS degree, she worked at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as in other academic laboratories in the U.S. and Europe. She was an active and longtime member of the Greater Middletown Chorale. Her husband, Professor Anthony Infante, survives, as do two daughters; two sons, including Niel Infante ’94; and five grandchildren.