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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

The subject I was best at in school was biology.

I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.