To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.