On Watson: News from Mitsuo Saitoh in Japan

The day before yesterday, I attended the lecture
of famous biologist, Dr. James D. Watson at the
University of Tokyo on Oct, 22,2008.
Sincerely yours,
Mitsuo Saitoh
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NINS International Forum on Molecular Biology
Dr. James D. Watoson and Dr. Joan A. Steitz
Organizer: National Institute of Natural Science
http://www.kuba.co.jp/nins_watson/index_e.html
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James D. Watson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_watson
Joan A. Steitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_A._Steitz
http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/steitzja_bio.html

Lectures:
"Lupus, Snurps and the Expanding Universe of Small
RNAs" by Dr. Joan A. Steiz (Professor of Molecular
Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University)

"Personal Overview of My Life up through Sequencing
My Genome" by Dr. James Watson (Chancellor Emeritus
of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The Lecture of Dr. James D. Watson,
Title: "SCIENCE IN TEN WAYS OVER 60 YEARS"
(1) Learning how to do science at Indiana University.
Indiana Univiersity
http://www.indiana.edu/
(2)Finding the Double Helix with Francis Crick at
Cambridge Univeristy.
Francis Crick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick
Double Helix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_helix
DNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
Rosalind Elsie Franklin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
University of Cambridge
http://www.cam.ac.uk/
(3)Working with graduate students at Harvard Univiersity
to learn how proteins are made on ribosome.
Harvard University
http://www.harvard.edu/
(4)Transforming my Harvard lectures to undergraduates
into The Molecular Biology of Genetics.
Molecular Biology of the Gene
http://www.aw-bc.com/watson/
(5)Creating a non-fiction novel about how science and
personal titles came together to reveal the Double Helix.
(6)Preserving the essence of Cold spring Harbor Laboratory
through making it a power house for cancer research.
- A turning point in CAncer Research sequecing the Human
Genome by Renato Dulbecco -
(7)Getting the Human Genome project started.
(8)Broading CSHL through education innovation.
(9)Following Judah Folkman to make cancer without disease.
(10)Using High throu-out, low cost Genomes to understand
psychiatric disease.
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