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• His Ph . D . advisor at MIT was David Botstein, and the title of his thesis was " Genetic analysis of the yeast microtubule cytoskeleton . " Stearns'thesis work was notable for identifying exceptions to the genetic complementation test that were useful for defining genetic interactions, and for the first use of the term " synthetic lethality " in the modern sense of two non-lethal mutations resulting in lethality in the double mutant.