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      <title>Visiting Max-Planck institute of physical chemistry, Berlin</title>
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        <![CDATA[Joseph Zhou - Two month ago I visited the Max-Planck institute of physical chemistry in Berlin. My host is Professor Mikhailov. We are discussing the collaboration of research on the molecular machine. This institute is actually one of the earliest Max-Planck institutes. When]]>
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      <title>Please join us for the Nature Network Berlin Dinner on September 4</title>
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        <![CDATA[Martin Fenner - Please join us for our next Nature Network Berlin dinner on Thursday, September 4. We meet at 8 PM in the restaurant "Honigmond":http://www.honigmond-berlin.de/html/kaffeehaus-restaurant.html (Borsigstr. 28, 10115 Berlin, near S-Bahn Nordbahnhof): !http://farm1.static.flickr.com/85/236288758_ae1cbe1b1f_m_d.jpg! Image from "Flickr":http://www.flickr.com/photos/sapienz/236288758/. The dinner will be one week]]>
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      <title>Graduate College 1208</title>
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        <![CDATA[Kostja Renko - NN Group dedicated to the DFG-funded Graduate College 1208 "Hormonal Regulation of Energy Metabolism, Body Weight and Growth"]]>
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      <title>XX. International Congress of Genetics (Closing day)</title>
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        <![CDATA[Roland Krause - On the last day of the genetics congress the halls of the spacious ICC were very empty. On previous days, many halls were could not seat everyone interested and overflow rooms had to be arranged. !http://nftb.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/dsc02046.jpg! Today, even "George Church":http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/]]>
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      <title>The closing genetics congress fringe dinner </title>
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        <![CDATA[Roland Krause - Well, I'll be frank: After lively and long discussions on every night of the genetics congress, it was time to get some sleep for me. Rudolf Jaenisch, our guest yesterday, was in the best hands and I sneaked out fairly]]>
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      <title>Stem cells and journalism in Germany</title>
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        <![CDATA[Roland Krause - A press conference was held yesterday at the genetics congress regarding the heated discussion on stem cells in Germany. One remarkable note was a complaint of the German stem cell researcher "Hans Schöler":http://www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/ncd/cd.shtml from the MPI for Cell and Developmental]]>
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      <title>Svante P&#228;abo at the International Congress of Genetics </title>
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        <![CDATA[Roland Krause - "Svante Päabo":http://email.eva.mpg.de/~paabo/ has a mission: The genome sequence of the Neanderthal. Amongst the attendants of the congress his report and strong opinions on the possibility, usefulness and quality of the sequence data could be heard at several occasions. His plenary]]>
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      <title>Dinner with Peer Bork, Eric Lander and Dinshaw Patel</title>
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        <![CDATA[Roland Krause - "Peer Bork":http://www-db.embl.de/jss/EmblGroupsOrg/per_173.html, "Eric Lander":http://www.broad.mit.edu/about/bios/bio-lander.html and "Dinshaw Patel":http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/10829.cfm were the guests for "NN dinner":http://network.nature.com/groups/berlin/notice/2008/07/01/nature-network-berlin-dinners-genetics-conference yesterday. The picture below was taken shortly after Eric Lander (center left) sat down. He caught the rapt attention of the students immediately even though not everyone]]>
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      <title>Why is genetics so difficult for students to learn?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Martin Fenner - This Sunday morning at the "International Congress of Genetics":http://www.geneticsberlin2008.com/, "Tony Griffiths":http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/griffith.htm gave an interesting presentation with the above title. He identified 12 possible reasons why students have problems learning genetics. His main argument: students should learn concepts and principles and]]>
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      <title>Dinner with Eliza Izaurralde and Frank Uhlmann</title>
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        <![CDATA[Roland Krause - The NN Berlin group organized a series of "dinners":http://network.nature.com/groups/berlin/notice/2008/07/01/nature-network-berlin-dinners-genetics-conference to bring students in Berlin in contact with some of the high profile scientists attending the "genetics congress":http://network.nature.com/london/news/blog/matt/2008/07/13/icg2008-punning-in-chromosomes-and-jumping-geneticists currently held here. The majority of scientists contacted accepted the Phil's invitation instantly,]]>
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