One of the original Celera team that worked on the Human Genome Project, Gene Myers is now setting up the new Center for Systems Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

However, unlike many others such centers, the main focus of this institute will not be genomics. Rather Myers is going for microscopy.

“Genomics is only about 20% of it,” he says in today’s interview from his office in Dresden, Germany

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