"‘Dear colleagues, we should all work on the same strain because, soon, we will sequence the genome of Listeria’. At that meeting, I had brought samples of the strain on which we were working to give to everybody – and I came back with all my samples! Nobody was interested because, I think, they did not believe me. After we obtained a significant budget, it still took us two years – and we were six groups – to sequence the genome of #listeria monocytogenes (Glaser et al., 2001)."

Pascale Cossart @DMM_Journal

#Microbiology #Parasitology #Genomics

https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/15/12/dmm050009/285917/