The opening of a talk is very important. This is what I heard about how Yale's membrane trafficking big guy, Ira Mellman, giving his presentation opening in Cell Biology Department here.
"Wow! So many people here! I have been here several times during last two years. Usually very few people came on time. But today I found here are so many famous professors come early and wait for me to give a talk. I scratched my head and asked myself 'WHY?'
Usually when I visited here and went to scheduled appointments, most of time the professor didn't show up. But today, everyone showed up on-time. I scratched my head and asked myself 'WHY?'
When I was schuduled to have lunch or dinner with two professors, everytime there was only one and obviously he didn't want to be there. But today, both attended plus 10 students and 4 postdocs. I scratched my head and asked myself 'WHY?'
Then I thought about Marc was stepping down from the chair and figured out why I was treated differently this time. Because you want me to be your chair!"
That is Ira Mellman's remarkable opening for his talk two years ago.
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