title: Senior moments.
abstract: The problem with reaching 'senior faculty' status is the feeling that you have nothing much to contribute except experience, but the recently announced Neanderthal Genome Project might put things into perspective.
authors.affiliation: Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. petsko@brandeis.edu
authors.forename: Gregory A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Petsko
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D017523:Croatia; D005178:Faculty; D005580:Fossils; D015894:Genome, Human; D005858:Germany; D015186:Hominidae / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods