Time in Cambridge

A few days in Cambridge, UK

Karl reports that he didn't do much in Cambridge except work work work.  

The institute where his five day course was based was the place where much of the human genome was sequenced.

Cambridge was really cold, with the warmest day  6C and he even got snowed on one morning walking to the course.  For those of you who know Karl - you know he does not like the cold so we thought it was super funny that we are here in Palmy sweltering with one of our best summers ever and he is over there......hehe!

Karl got to dine at Trinity Hall, the foundations of this building were laid in 1350.  Amazing old building and roads in the center of Cambridge. He also had a beer at a famous science pub called the Eagle (right in the middle of all the old buildings in Cambridge), apparently the place where the two guys who discovered DNA (Watson and Crick) had a beer afterwards!!!

In WW2 the pub was used as a headquarters for the American bomber pilots who were based nearby, so there was lots of history on that too.

Here are some photos he took:- 

                                                                       DNA plaque

                                                                 EMBO Sanger
             Sanger Institute–EMBL-EBI Single Cell Genomics Centre, located on the Welcome Genome Campus 

                                                       Hinxton Hall (part of the campus)

A very old building in Cambridge

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