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 Changes in Scientific Staff
Turnover in scientific staff is to
be expected in a rigorous and dynamic scientific
research institution such as Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory. This year, after more than two decades at
Cold Spring Harbor, senior scientist Mike Mathews
left us for the University of  Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in Newark, where he
accepted a position as Professor and Chairman of the
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Mike arrived here in 1974 as an early member of the
"tumor virus group" and was studying
diverse aspects of regulation of gene expression in
recent years. I was most fortunate to work with him
as a Postdoctoral Fellow when I first came to the
Laboratory and I wish him well in his new position.
Also, Venkatesan "Sundar" Sundaresan left
after ten years of plant research with us. Sundar was
instrumental in establishing the current plant
genetics research program at the Lab. Together with
Rob Martienssen he developed the use of Barbara
McClintock's transposons from maize to study plant
development and gene expression in Arabidopsis.
Sundar has gone on to become Director of the
Institute of Molecular Biology at National University
of Singapore.
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