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Twenty years of cell-cycle conferences in Roscoff

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At the end of April 2008, the cell-cycle community celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Jacques-Monod cell-cycle conferences in Roscoff (France), where the discovery of Cdk1 as a key cell-cycle regulator was first discussed in 1988.

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  1. Isabelle Vernos is at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), UPF, Barcelona, Spain. isabelle.vernos@crg.es,

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  2. Jan-Michael Peters is at IMP, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 7, A-1030 Vienna, Austria. peters@imp.ac.at,

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