A conversation with Cornelia Bargmann

The potential that molecular biology opened up in understanding biological problems in a new way was obvious even to a college student, and the excitement of being able to learn new things using new approaches was what drew me into genetics. [...]discovery was made, Genentech developed an antibody (Herceptin) that could be used to attack the transmembrane protein to target a class of human breast cancer in which this gene is altered. [...]I was interested in behavior and genetics, but it was clear that there was going to be a nervous system between point A and point B. Right then, a connectivity map of the C. elegans nervous system was published that would serve as a way to move back and forth between what molecules, neurons, and the organism did. [...]we don't even know how many different types of cells there are in the human body.