{"id":2607,"date":"2009-07-03T05:03:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T05:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2009\/07\/lindau09-twitter-round-up-4.html"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:08:07","slug":"lindau09_twitter_roundup_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2009\/07\/lindau09_twitter_roundup_4.html","title":{"rendered":"Lindau09: Twitter round-up #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are the highlights from yesterday’s tweets<\/a> from the 2009 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

7.43am Final day of lectures here in Lindau (although not the final day of the meeting), and this morning will be a GFP<\/span> extravaganza!<\/p>\n

8.02am Shimomura is first up – telling us about the chemistry of bioluminescence<\/p>\n

8.19am Interesting fact of the day from Shimomura who tells us that krill is the most abundant animal on the earth<\/p>\n

8.31am Chalfie – I’m the accidental Laureate that got into the middle of this – he works on sensory mechanotransduction<\/p>\n

8.33am Chalfie has spent a lot of his career ‘tickling worms’ – C. elegans that is – to find out how they respond to touch<\/p>\n

9.08am Students and postdocs are the real innovators in science according to Chalfie<\/p>\n

9.13am Final lecture of the 1st session is given by Roger Tsien – who will tell us about some of the mistakes he made & where he got lucky<\/p>\n

9.48am Tsien – ‘normally there is nothing green inside a mouse’!<\/p>\n

9.51am Tsien has yet to run a gel or do a PCR<\/span> reaction in his life – if he had to hire himself, he wouldn’t do it!!<\/p>\n

10.01am Schrock takes the stage – co-recipient of the 2005 chem prize (https:\/\/bit.ly\/axqQt<\/a>) – apologises for not being at the whole meeting<\/p>\n

10.34am Schrock shows some 14 electron Mo catalysts that have 4 different groups on the metal centre – chiral metal catalysts on the way?<\/p>\n

10.42am Take home message from Schrock – air-sensitive catalysts are good (not bad) if they can do something other catalysts can’t<\/p>\n

10.46am Final formal lecture of Lindau 09 given by Werner Arber, Laureate in Physiology or Medicine from 1978 (https:\/\/bit.ly\/g1V74<\/a>)<\/p>\n

10.52am Arber is using a computer slideshow for his talk on ‘Molecular Darwinism’ – but all the slides are drawn by hand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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