Gastbeitrag. What is the purpose of such meetings and conferences ? Do scientists really need to have such meetings ? Imagine what would happen if the synapses between the neurons were not formed in us. Science in the present day, without networking would be like a nervous system without the ability of form synapses.

Gastbeitrag. What a day at the EMBO meeting! Opening lecture by Elisabeth Blackburn on chromosome capping followed by a series of lectures on evolution of animal forms, quick lunch with the editors, gene networks, posters presentations and lessons to learn from the apes with Frans de Waal.