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Our colleagues in New Zealand took the : Can you describe your scientific pursuits in seven words or less? We posed the question to our own scientists here at the ӳ����ý and got some enlightening results!

Taking the guesswork out of cancer

I discover the molecular causes of cancer

Assemble genome sequence from billions of pieces

DNA isolation, preparation, quantification, management and storage

A common thread stitches together Nick Patterson’s numerous careers: deep and joyful thinking about mathematics. He has cracked Cold War codes and run numbers on Wall Street. Now a computational biologist in the ӳ����ý’s Program in Medical and Population Genetics, he has helped colleagues analyze the migration and mixing of human populations. His work has spanned and analyzed the population history of an entire .

Image courtesy of the US Department of Veterans Affairs

This week, the ӳ����ý community gathers for its annual scientific retreat, a two-day extravaganza featuring presentations and posters on a variety of research projects across the institute.

Since all of us bloggers will be there, taking in the impressive line-up of science and scientists, and soaking up new information and ideas, ӳ����ýMinded will go dark on Monday and Tuesday.

We’ll return, renewed and refreshed, on Wednesday.

Some incredible news today in the Boston Globe: the ӳ����ý is among the “Top Places to Work” in Massachusetts in 2010.