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Meetings: Organizers & Attendees Reginald Harris, then Director of the Biological Laboratory, initiated the first Symposium in 1933. Today over 8,000 scientists come to the laboratory each year to attend meetings. What special moments do you recall from your participation in or organization of these meetings?

 
 
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Old 02-24-2003, 12:43 PM
Bob Zivin Bob Zivin is offline
 
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Default My first trip to the Phage Meeting (1977)

I think it was 1977; I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago and was attending my first CSH meeting (Phage). I was in awe of the what I considered the birthplace of molecular biology, DNA, and everything else a naive graduate student could comprehend (as well as getting to hold the big stick, perhaps the same big stick, that pointed out the structure of DNA in 1953). Despite this sense of reverence, my Advisor, Dr. Lucia Rothman-Denes, considered my preparations for my first major scientific meeting talk somewhat sub-par (I think her words were: " if that's the best you can do, I will give the talk myself"). I wandered out into the woods, and gave my talk to a shrub, then a tree, then a rock, then anything else which did not have the option of fleeing. I was psyched! The next day, when projection problems occurred, I cruised happily passed blank slide after blank slide (pointing out the non-existent graphs and blots) and survived my first presentation. Oh yes, I think I gave the talk to Mrs. Lee's giant (papier-mache) Yale Bulldog too. You remember Mrs. Lee's Guest House, yes?

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