American - Scientist | March 7, 1944 -
I won't start quite at the beginning... but the emigration of my parents from Nazi Germany and their new life in the U.S.A. A one sentence summary of these events is that after some years of trouble and considerable hard work, my parents established a satisfactory if not comfortable life for themselves and their two children.
Michael Rosbash
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I am grateful to my colleagues at Brandeis and to the unusual environment here that allows researchers to explore without boundaries while also engaging students in the process of discovery. This is a very special - perhaps unique - university.
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It's been overlooked for a long time as a real public health problem. All of western society is a little bit sleep-deprived, and when I say a little bit, I mean chronically.
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The same biological clock ticks away in humans and fruit flies, which underscores the importance of circadian timing to life on this planet.
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I stand on the shoulders of giants.
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Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.
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We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.
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Most important for the circadian field was the pioneering work of Ron Konopka in Seymour's lab.
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This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.
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I try not to take sleep medication.
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I don't drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book.
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It was always intriguing that flies had two peaks of activity, in the morning and evening, with a siesta during the day and not very much activity at night. There are several ways to explain that, but one possibility was that there were two clocks running - one governing the morning peak and one governing the evening peak.
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