Martin Fenner

5 July 2010

Chance, opportunity and planning or how to motivate young scientists

Oliver Smithies is one of the masters of giving motivational talks to young researchers. The talk he gave on Wednesday is only a slight variation of his Nobel lecture in 2007 (video and slides can be found here), or the presentation I heard in 2008 at the International Congress of Genetics. But as Eva Amsen said in a Twitter […]

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Lou Woodley

2 July 2010

Food for thought, as well as the stomach

On Tuesday evening I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in the academic dinner hosted by the Lockheed Martin Foundation in Weinstube Frey. However, unlike the traditional and very formal Oxbridge academic dinners, for me this experience turned out to be much more relaxed and really brought the Laureates to life as personalities […]

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