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Thirty Years of Yeast (and counting...)
 f you want to understand the principles of flight, start by examining a glider, not a Boeing 747. Similarly, if you want to understand complex biological processes, rapid progress can be made by studying relatively simple organisms, such as baker's yeast.
 | | Hugo Aguilaniu (2000 Yeast Genetics course student from Chalmers University, Goteborg, Sweden) and Allison Adams (Associate Professor, University of Arizona and Yeast Genetics course instructor, 1994-1997) are neck-and-neck during the Petri Plate Race. The race has become a tradition at the close of the CSHL summer course season in mid-August. |
Jim Watson and the participants of the Yeast Genetics course he initiated thirty years ago at CSHL have led the way in establishing yeast as a powerful model system for studying molecular biology. Since its inception, nearly five hundred scientists from around the world have taken the Cold Spring Harbor Yeast Genetics course. Most of the outstanding yeast geneticists and molecular biologists of the past half-century have either taken the course, taught the course, or both.
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