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Okay, So retirees self
statements, right?
00:06
How am I going to round it up?
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There seems like there's
three ways you could do this.
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One is the commencement talk, right?
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This is what we're gonna do next,
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guys, this is what the future holds.
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We're going to move on.
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We've got this next career.
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All that.
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Second possible.
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Second possibility
is the eulogy talk.
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I did this, I did this,
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I did all of this stuff
and now I'm gone.
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The third possibility is
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the reflective talk, and
that's what I'm gonna do.
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The reflective talks as what did
I learn overall this time, right?
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That's the reflective talk.
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And my reflective talk
comes to what did I,
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what have I learned over 40
years of study in biology,
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right, 40 years from all the lanes.
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What I've actually learned.
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And it all comes down to a
statement to my colleague,
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Kent Bradford says,
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that statement is something like
this I probably misquoting,
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but the software of biology,
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in the software of biology a,
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a, a variation in
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their software brown variation
is a feature not a bug.
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Meaning in biology is
all about variation.
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It's all about difference, right?
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It's all about that.
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And that's 40 years take-home.
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Let him be from the
microbiome to your nutrition,
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to the culture around you.
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The more variable it
is, the better, right?
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Agriculturally, It's better.
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Culturally it's better.
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Your microbiomes better, your
food is better, your exercise.
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Variation is the key, right?
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Okay, So what I've learned
as far as variation,
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as far as Davis goes, right?
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Davis is great on that way.
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We look at people,
place and science.
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Start with the science.
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Talk about variation in
biological sciences.
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Some places study animal
or study mice and humans.
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We study everything from snakes,
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lizards to giraffes to
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Richard Metro more has probably
sequence more species of
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animals and most of us can even name
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right there variation
in biology and plants.
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We don't just study
Arabidopsis and maize, right?
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We got them all in there from
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trees to coconuts
and everything else.
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So science wise, davis gets
an a plus for variation.
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If variation is
important or district,
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you know that the
distribution is important,
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Davis wins by that localization.
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Davis wins there. The first
thing, Richard Michel Martin,
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when I was interviewing here,
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he told me, Look,
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here's the thing about David's.
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It's 20 min to nowhere
and 2 h to everywhere.
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And he's absolutely right in 2 h,
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I can be skiing or I can
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be pretending to surf
on the beat treasure.
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I mean, you'd go from the beach.
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So that's the variation to
California's offers right?
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From one to the n. So we get an a,
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we probably get a B plus in that
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because it's bloody hot
here in the summer.
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But otherwise the geology
of Davis works very well.
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And then we talked the
third round round then
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is people place science and people.
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And Davis is beautiful that right?
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I mean, I'm not talking
just diversity piecewise.
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I'm talking about
diversity thinking wise.
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We've got people that think
differently than other people.
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And that's great.
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That's what it works, right?
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And sometimes they're
a little weird.
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People look at me, weird.
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But that's fine because that
variation is the theme of biology.
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So if you're strange, That's great.
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That works here.
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Edward, we can get
away with that, right?
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We can get away with that.
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So I think that's right.
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I finished up here.
The other thing I was
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talking with this
theme and variation.
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Of course, the whole academic career
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allows that we all start
as being scientists,
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but then we're mentors
and then we're teachers,
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and then sometimes we
become administrators
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and sometimes we
become patent lawyers.
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I mean, we can do a lot
of things based on that.
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So we have that, we
have that variation.
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And so we can go from
science administrative,
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and you will need to do
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some administration that
many of us have as well.
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So yeah, that's
basically what I have
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learned at Davis and
now I hope to take
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that into retirement and say, okay,
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here's another chance for
more variation and go diving
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with my girlfriend Deborah or do
something different out of life.
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And I think that's really
what what I'm aiming for.
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So that's it.
05:02
Thank you very much.
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It's been a great time and I
really enjoyed my stay here
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and then Lovely to meet
every Thanks very much.
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Thank you, Joan.
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That's wonderful.
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I'd probably do that.
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3 min.
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3 min.
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I, I didn't do this and
then I did do this.
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And then I thought, well,
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it's all about people, right?
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So how do we turn it on?
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There was a little thing here.
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So these slides are
completely boring.
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There we go.
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Completely boring. There's
no Ken Burns effect,
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there's no transition.
There's none of that.
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But it has to do with the people.
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And I think the people are
really what's important.
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So the first set here, it
looks at the people in my,
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in my lab and we had just
a one as many of you do.
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We had just a wonderful
set of people.
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It's unbelievable to go into the lab
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and think about ideas and a
couple of days later explore it.
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I mean, it is just the most
satisfying situation in the world.
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So here's the Neil
Jamison who many of
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you know from biotechnology.
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And I have these pictures and
you just want to show him
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one time and it's
only 3 min and it's
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my retirement I can do and I
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want so are you going to
look at these things?
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Some of the people you're going
to recognize a little bit later.
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Yeah, these are just early
lab pictures and again,
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it's meaningless, but as
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a retirement you look through
and then you do that.
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We're flexion. And when I started
here it was all veggie crop.
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So here's some old
veggie crop pictures.
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I started with Charlie Rick.
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This is the position I came in.
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That's crops in those days
was a tough place to be.
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You didn't mess around
as a new person.
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Here's Allan Ben and
look at his best.
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Can Bedford in the old days
before his gray came in,
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looking at this handsome guy,
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he looks like he's going
to do some kind of movie,
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like a TV star or
something like that.
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Roger shadowed leg.
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Like so I didn't mean
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this was supposed to just
go on in the background.
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Alan Bennett, of course,
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the handsome fellow that
he is Shankar Yang.
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I didn't. This was supposed
to happen when I'm
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in when I'm talking about these
are the folks at dawn Nevins.
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Joe.
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I got some OTs in there too.
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It's only 3 min, so we'll
get a couple of more.
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Tom, toms out fishing
somewhere, presumably.
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Mohammad with this guy.
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This is the last picture we
had, Eric Jones, I think.
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Last time we see
this young guy here.
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Young guy, an old guides are
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our IT folks who kept everything
alive for a long time.
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We had wonderful
parties in beds drops.
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There was no doubt we
had good picnic parties.
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Of course, Picnic Day was always
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a great event even if it
rained back in the old days.
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Of course, we had Picnic Day,
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which are pumpkin day.
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And then of course
the students write as
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students really keep
you young and alive.
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And there's lots of students and
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hanging around young people
is a good thing to do.
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That's ads add years to your life.
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Hanging around young people
is the way to do it.
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So that's it.
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Those are the old folks.
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Thanks very much.
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