Gerald Rubin has been studying biology for 40 years, but he still can't name the parts of a flower. In the late 1960s, when a teenage Rubin attended the prestigious Boston Latin School, he says, "biology was not considered a rigorous subject worthy of being taught. And they were right. At that point, high-school biology was memorizing the parts of a flower" - a task that did not interest Rubin or his teachers.
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Gerry Rubin was exposed to the leading lights of molecular biology right from the start of his career. Now he's trying to attract the next generation of leaders to Janelia Farm.
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