Whats the most gratifying about teaching?
If the students actually enjoy it. I think it’s an enjoyable experience to understand something. And sometimes you can feel that the students understood a very complex connection, a very complex topic, and he actually likes it. He’s very satisfied with that. And that’s very satisfying for me, to feel that a student actually likes to learn. What’s the most exciting project in your lab right now? I am really narrowly focused on Yeast. And we have our reasons for it, it’s been a terrific model. The data which are available on it are incredible. You go to the internet and you ask about a gene on the sequence. By the end of the year every gene will have been deleted. There’s a huge amount of data which you can just log onto the Internet and get. So some of the dirty work has been done by others. So now you can really focus on the issues- how do things work together. At the same moment, these concepts, especially checkpoint control, are being investigated in mammalian genes- and there are a
