I've recently been working to unearth the scientific genealogy of Carlos Bustamante's lab. With the aid of some labmates, we have made quite a bit of progress! We have the lineage to the 17th century, and it goes thusly:

Carlos José Bustamante

• 1951-present
  
• Ph.D. in Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, 1981
  

Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.

• 1930-present
  
• Ph.D. University Wisconsin, 1954
  

John Douglass Ferry

• 1912-2003
  
• Ph.D., Stanford University, 1935
  

George Sutton Parks, Sr.

• 1894-1966
  
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1919
  

George Ernest Gibson

• 1884-1959
  
• Ph.D., Universität Breslau, 1911
  
• [California Digital Library]
  

Otto Richard Lummer

• 1860-1925
  
• Ph.D., Universität Berlin, 1884
  
• Dissertation: Über eine neue Interferenz-Erscheinung an planparallelen Glasplatten und eine Methode die Planparallelität solcher Gläser zu prüfen
  

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

• 1821-1894
  
• M.D., Königlich Medizinisch-chirurgische Friedrich-Wilhelm Institut, Berlin, 1842
  
• [Max Planck Institute for the History of Science]
  

Johannes Peter Müller

• 1801-1858
  
• M.D., University of Bonn, 1822
  
• [Max Planck Institute for the History of Science]
  

Karl Asmund Rudolphi

• 1771-1832
  
• M.D., Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, 1795
  
• [MGP]
  

Christian Ehrenfried Weigel

• 1748-1831
  
• Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1771
  
• [MGP]
  

Johann Christian Polykarp Erxleben

• 1744-1777
  
• Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1767
  
• [MGP]
  

Abraham Gotthelf Kästner

• 1719-1800
  
• Ph.D., Universität Leipzig, 1739
  
• Dissertation: Theoria radicum in aequationibus
  
• [MGP]
  

Christian August Hausen

• 1693-1743
  
• Ph.D., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1713
  
• Dissertation: De corpore scissuris figurisque non cruetando ductu
  
• [MGP]
  

Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen

• 1663-1727
  
• Ph.D., Universität Leipzig, 1685
  
• Dissertation: Disputationem Moralem De Divortiis Secundum Jus Naturae
  
• [MGP]
  

Otto Mencke

• 1644-1707
  
• Ph.D., Universität Leipzig, 1665
  
• Dissertation: Ex Theologia naturali — De Absoluta Dei Simplicitate, Micropolitiam, id est Rempublicam In Microcosmo Conspicuam
  
• [MGP]