Talk Overview
Vale explains how doing science often follows a winding path with unexpected, sometimes wonderful surprises, and uses his own story to illustrate his point. When Vale was a graduate student, he initially hoped to show that myosin was involved in axonal transport, but ended up discovering a new molecule which he called kinesin.
Speaker Bio
Ron Vale
Professor of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology; Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Francisco Continue Reading
Where is the version of this talk where we see the VW and the windsurfer?