Lec 6 MIT 7.012 Introduction to Biology, Fall 2004
I am the other half of the teaching team for 7.01. You've already gotten to meet my good colleague Bob Weinberg. My name is Eric Lander. And Bob and I are both faculty here in the Biology Department. In fact, we're both members over at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. In fact, we just spent the whole weekend together at the Whitehead Retreat. And so, Bob and I have been doing this course together for a number of years. And we very much love it. I am -- I'll take a brief moment and introduce myself, since I haven't had the opportunity to do so yet. I am by training, well, actually, I'm really a geneticist. By training I'm actually a pure mathematician. That was actually what my undergraduate degree was in, and even my PhD was in, but then wandered into biology. And for the last almost 20 years, I have been doing genetics in some form or another. So I love genetics and look forward to ...