November 16-17, 2005.
Lectures
Phil Sharp was invited by the KT Wang Bioorganic Chemistry Foundation to give two talks in Taipei. I went with Li-Jung to the main campus of National Taiwan University for his first talk on si/miRNA (Short RNAs in Normal and Disease Processes). When he prepared his slides on the stage, I went to talk to him shortly. I was glad that he still remembered me. In this lecture, he did not talk a broad topic and pretty much focused on the recent findings of his lab. Unlike most big scientists, he enjoyed talking about detailed pieces of the works done by his lab members. In his second lecture held in the campus of Academia Sinica, he talked about “The Roles of RNA in Gene Regulation”. He again presented the detail of a few topics that his lab has been doing recently. I believed that I was the one among the audience who really knew the essence of his talk. Expect for me, who really knows U12-type introns?
Visit
Near 10 am, I got a phone call from the Director’s office about the immediate visit of Phil Sharp. This truly surprised me. (Thanks God, I had cleaned my desk a few days ago.) He soon came in. I found he is very smart and has a surprisingly good memory. He told me about the detail of the papers that he had read before and on the plane during this trip. I was somewhat embarrassed about my ignorance of something that he mentioned to me. I was much amazed by his truly knowledge and deep thoughts in basic science. Although he has been intensively engaged in biotech, he still showed his great passion for research. We also talked about U12-type intron, which was a legend, we made. This recalled me my first conservation with him in a castle in Mont Sainte-Odile, Strasburg, 10 years ago. He came to see my poster of U12 intron splicing and praised me. He stayed in my office for 30 minutes. He had been so friendly and we had a great time in talking about science. Even a few days later, I always fell in the daydream that a Nobel Laureate was sitting on my guest chair.
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