Tim Hubbard claims he knows nothing about genetics. But he was drawn into the high-stakes world of genomics by a job offer he couldn’t refuse. Hubbard had been working on algorithms for predicting protein structures at the MRC Centre for Protein ...
I am generally in agreement with most of Michael Kaiser's ideas relating to arts administration, but I believe he is far too narrow-minded in his thinking about cultural diplomacy as delineated in his blog post of September 21. In his post, Michael ...
Talk about a rite of passage: In his first job out of Amherst College in 1980, Douglas Bishop worked as a tech for a scientist who had neither an alarm clock nor a circadian rhythm. David Kurtz at Cold Spring Harbor had a habit of staying awake for 24 ...
Sean Carroll’s most flamboyant finding was prompted by an innocent query before a seminar. Carroll had gone down to Duke University to give a talk about his research on the genes and molecules that direct the regular spacing of bristles on a fruit fly ...
The arts are the heart of the urban tourism industry. Certainly no one visits New York City for the weather. Many similar cities, such as Philadelphia, San Francisco and Pittsburgh, have also emerged as great arts cities which generate much needed ...
As an undergraduate at Radcliffe College—Harvard's allgirl sister institution—in the 1960s, Susan Gottesman earned pocket money working as a technician in Jim Watson's Harvard lab. "I would hear stories of people going to mixers at Radcliffe and ...
In an exhibit on modern science at the London Science Museum sits a replica of Chris Marshall's inner sanctum. "They took photos of three different scientists' offices and recreated them there in the museum," says Richard Marais, a colleague and ...
According to a former student, Len Kaczmarek is fond of noting: "Eric Clapton and I used to play the same clubs. Then our careers diverged." And it's true. Kaczmarek opened for Eric Clapton at Eel Pie Island and played guitar at the Royal Albert Hall. ...
Shiv Grewal hasn't slept much in the past eight or nine years. Not since he found that in fission yeast, gene silencing depends on the machinery that carries out RNA interference (RNAi), a discovery that effectively tied together two of the hottest ...
It was 1980, in the early days of the molecular biology era, when Nancy Jenkins and her collaborator-and-spouse Neal Copeland accepted their first faculty positions at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. "Everyone told us that going there ...
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