Tom maniatis biography

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So I had an advisor in college; I did undergraduate research with him. And he managed to make it possible for me to start graduate school there. And after a year and a half I knew I wanted to move on. And I had made contact with a person at the medical school in Denver at the University of Colorado Medical School, a person by the name of Leonard Lerman.

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Tom maniatis biography

And at the time there was limited space and somehow I had this idea that, it was really based on my experience at Harvard, that I wanted to be at a place where there are students. I felt more comfortable in a university situation. I felt that I wanted to teach, which in retrospect is pretty amazing. And so I just felt that Cold Spring Harbor was not the place where I wanted to continue doing science.

And it was complicated too because at that time my wife was very unhappy. In this particular case, my wife really her whole life, you know, was now devoted to being a wife of a scientist. And she was a geologist.