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Quinta Grande The Newsletter of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Telomeres & Telomerase get the Nobel - Why all the fuss? This edition is available online at: www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Winter 2009| Issue 5 In this edition: “I don’t believe in hopeful monsters”: Interview with Rami Reshef The Career Paths workshop: exploring alternative careers The Giant and the Dwarf: the Norman Borlaug story What we’ve been up to in the Science Communication team IGC researchers win several international and national awards Illustration: Hugo Almeida

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Quinta GrandeThe Newsletter of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Telomeres & Telomerase get the Nobel

- Why all the fuss?

This edition is available online at: www.igc.gulbenkian.pt

Winter 2009| Issue 5

In this edition:

• “I don’t believe in hopeful monsters”: Interview with Rami Reshef

• The Career Paths workshop: exploring alternative careers

• The Giant and the Dwarf: the Norman Borlaug story

• What we’ve been up to in the Science Communication team

• IGC researchers win several international and national awards

Illustration: Hugo Almeida

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Editorial:

by António Coutinho*

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Quinta Grande, Issue 5, Winter 2009Coordinator: Ana GodinhoEditor: Sílvia Castro Contributors: Ana Godinho; António Coutinho; Barbara Vreede; Catarina Júlio; Organising Committee of the Workshop Career Paths, José Mário Leite; Thiago Carvalho; Sílvia Castro;Graphic design: Paulo EmilianoCirculation: 400Address: Rua da Quinta Grande, 62780-156 Oeiras, PortugalTelephone: +351 214 464 537Fax.: +351 214 407 970www.igc.gulbenkian.pt

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The Career Paths workshop: exploring alternative careersby the Organization Committee

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IGC researchers win several international and national awards

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What we’ve been up to in the Science Communciation team

by Ana Godinho

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A scientists’ ‘love-life’ - what comes to (your) mind?

by José Mário Leite

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“I don’t believe in hopeful monsters.”Rami Reshef searches for the laws of evolution.

“If you are working on the big questions, it doesn’t matter what organism you use.”by Barbara Vreede

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The Giant and the Dwarf. by Thiago Carvalho

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