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Nature 446, 7 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446007a; Published online 28 February 2007

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Q&A: Ronald Plasterk

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Introducing the Netherlands' new research minister.

Molecular geneticist Ronald Plasterk is one of the Netherlands' most highly cited researchers, publishing regularly in top journals in fashionable research fields such as regulation of gene expression by inhibitory RNAs. A lifelong member of the centre-left Labour party, he was last month named minister of research and universities in the country's new coalition government.

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