Identity area
Reference code
DE 2324 C-OH-22
Title
Alan Sawyer
Date(s)
- 2017-11-04 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
One audio file (.WAV) and one digital file (.PDF)
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Name of creator
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This is an interview with Alan Sawyer who started to work as a technical assistant at EMBL Heidelberg in 1990 in Thomas Kreis' and Eric Karsenti's group. In this interview, Alan Sawyer describes how he started working in the UK before coming to EMBL, how he developed his methods of producing antibodies at EMBL Heidelberg and how he came to work on microarrays at EMBL after 2001 as well as on one of the Core Facilities after 2008. Furthermore, this interview contains some anecdotes of Alan Sawyer's life in Heidelberg and how he perceives the process of professionalization of EMBL over time.