Speaker
Andrea Ciliberto
(IFOM)
Description
In this presentation, I will start from my own experience in the lab of Bela Novak to discuss some results on cell cycle regulation, remember his figure as a mentor, and I will discuss the importance of doing basic science slowly and in depth. In particular, I will discuss the last stretch of 'hungarian years' in Bela's work (early 2000s up to 2007), when he had the freedom to do research in relative isolation and with little external pressure. This mostly theoretical work laid the ground for the very fruitful interactions with experimental biologists that took place in Oxford, which brought to Bela an even wider recognition among experimentalists.
