European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Return Hon at the cold Spring Harbor Laboratory take lunch break. Significant work on Plant genetics cancer and the aids virus has been done ail he Center. Watering Hole for the biological world by Philip  new York times o follow Daniel Marshak through his daily life at the cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Laurel hollow n v. Is to Sufler a Pang of envy Marshak a 30-year-old senior investigator wakes to a sweeping View of cold Spring Harbor irom the two Story House he rents from the Laboratory. He Ollen disappears from his of co to walk along the nature rails that weave through the Campus a mixture of victorian and postmodern build nos most of All he is part of an institution recognized throughout the world As one of the premiere centers of biological research. Three Nobel laureates live within 800 Leet of each other there James 0 Walson the co discoverer of the Structure of dam and the Laboratory s director and the geneticists Alfred d hours hey and Barbara Mcclitock. This is a new England fishing Village thai holds scientists asking some of the most fundamental questions of nature Marshak said As he walked along the Laboratory s Small Beach. Since ils founding 97 years ago As a biological station. The cold Spring Harbor Center has enjoyed a High reputation As a place for Basic biological research renowned work has been done in Plant genetics cancer and most recently understanding the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome since 1933, when the first symposium on Quail italine biology was held the Laboratory has icon seen As the meeting place far scientists a watering Hole where the very Best of the biological world came each summer to talk learn and discuss the newest i dings. Many of which have bean developed a the Laboratory thai reputation continues a s a remarkable institution said Joseph g Perpich a vice president of the Howard Hughes medical Institute in selves a. Md., which has Nisi awarded the Laboratory a $7 million Grant. Everybody in science has been Inere at one Lime for a conference or symposium the Hughes Grant the largest Ever received by the Laboratory will be used to expand Hal program of symposiums the a july of the Money however will go toward construction of a new Laboratory building devoted to the study of neuroscience though the Laboratory has an Elci National reputation among scientists in is Littig  Fly ils neighbors for a Long me i though the Laboratory had something to do with the Lish hatchery across the Braot said George w cutting chairman of Iho Long Island biological association a private group thai helps raise funds for the Laboratory to just was t aware of what was going on there but As the Laboratory continues to develop adding new facilities like a $5 million auditorium and expanding ils scientific meeting schedule to the Point where 4,000 people visited last year Community awareness and concern Are also growing people see All those Airport limousines coma Inlo the Campus and kind of wonder whal is going on  said culling a private investment adviser who lives in nearby Oyster Bay Cove others see that the lights Are on All the Lime and want to know what s going on there at -1 in the morning " to respond to those concerns cutting and others associated with the Laboratory explain thai doing science the words used universally Here to describe the actual process of experimentation is not a 9 to 5 Job this place is working 24 hours a Day seven Days a week said g Morgan Browne the Laboratory s administrative director there is an incredible Energy Here " Al the same time hero is a palpable feeling of relaxation this is a Small institution with Only 350 employees. And in is one where the most popular Wall decorations appear to be the syndicated comic strip the far a de in one Laboratory where Post doctoral students work with kidney cells a cartoon shows a group of scientists scrambling away from their work As a ice Cream truck pulls up outside sell g n Grant a 28-year-old visiting scientist from Australia who also serves As the skipper of he Laboratory s yacht the double Helix spoke of cold Spring Harbor As a place Wilh a lot of old world  idol is detached from the rest of the world yet it is a very stimulating place for people to work he said there is an International atmosphere and a Greal real of scientific exchanges you do eel that you Are Ai the forefront of science this is really a Clearinghouse of science " a recent scion Titi meeting Al the  the last of the season was on the molecular Neuron Biogy of Root Punla a topic Hal Many participants called one a the honest in the scientific world in Tine no Ion the Iso scientist i who attended these Ision studied a Large picture of a fruit Liy s brain thai has been dyed Given in the room inhere those who were nol asked to deliver scientific Paponis posted the Lesutis of some of their experiments. Tho or was full of scientific Patter Mickarl gun Dolinger a 34-year-old biologist irom Iho Center for molecular biology Al Hoide Boig University in Germany said he experienced something special Al his first meeting at cold Spring Harbor. Usually we have tas and the big Bosses disappear right after he said but Here they Are relaxed hero they have the time to talk with a there is nol much else to  in those talks gun Dillinger said to Learned Many technical details and ideas Lor a lot of techniques that i can use or my work " Watson the Laboratory s director since 1968, a d that he has designed a place where people come of share information " or. James o. Watson director of Trie Laboratory. Saturday october 31, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 17