Herr, Winship
Person
Biography
Winship Herr was born July 9, 1958 in New Haven, CT. In 1974, he obtained his A.B. (Biology) at University of California at Santa Cruz and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1982 for studies on recombinant retroviruses in leukemogenic mice with Walter Gilbert. After postdoctoral studies with Frederick Sanger in Cambridge, England and then with Joe Sambrook at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, he joined the CSHL faculty in 1984. After achieving the rank of Senior Scientist, he served as assistant director of the Laboratory from 1994-2002 and from 1998-2004 was the founding Dean of the Watson School of Biological Sciences, a doctoral degree-granting school. In 2004, he joined the Center for Integrative Genetics in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
DNA Tumor Virus Program Project Grant, 2001 - 2003
File — Box 03, Folder: 04
Scope and Contents
memorandum, binder
Dates:
2001 - 2003
Winship Herr Collection
File
Identifier: WRH
Abstract
The collection consists of plasmid request letters, manuscript reviews, laboratory notebooks and the Cancer Center Support Grant application for year 09 (1992).
Dates:
1985 - 1997
Found in:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives
LIBA Panel Discussion , 1989-01-15
File
Identifier: PA_005_LIBA_Panel_Discussion
Scope and Contents
George Cutting; women speaking without microphone; reporting of the "Ambassador of the Year Award" Wendy Hatch; Nominating Committee Larry Davis; James Watson helps present a gift to Bayard Clarkson; James Watson speaks; Open Panel Discussion: Dr. James Watson; Morgan Browne; Richard J. Roberts; Ed Harlow; Winship Herr.
Dates:
1989-01-15
Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: OH
Scope and Contents
The Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted with 200 scientists within the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and the life sciences between 1990 and 2024. The interviewees provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in the fields of modern biology, such as neuroscience, cancer, genetics, plant genetics, genomics, biotechnology and others, from the 1940s through the 2000s. The collection contains audio and video recordings, as well as transcripts of interviews....
Dates:
1990 - 2024
Found in:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives
Ronald Plasterk, 2004-06-07
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Ronald Plasterk, molecular geneticist, is interviewed by Mila Pollock on June 7, 2004 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.Ronald Plasterk discusses the following in his interview:
Scene 1. Scientific career -- Scene 2. Becoming a scientist -- Scene 3. Interest in genetics research -- Scene 4. C. elegans and zebrafish genomics -- Scene 5. From California to Cambridge: working with John Sulston -- Scene 6. John Sulston, from cell lineages to human...
Dates:
2004-06-07
Walter Gilbert Celebration, Clarkson Dining Room Event, undated
File
Identifier: Gilbert_Walter_01
Scope and Contents
Celebration in Clarkson Dining Room honoring Walter (Wally) Gilbert; features: Winship Herr, James D. Watson, Celia Gilbert, and others
Dates:
undated
James D. Watson Collection
Collection
Identifier: JDW
Abstract
The James D. Watson Collection documents the life and career of James D. Watson, co-recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the Director (and later President and Chancellor) of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the first director of the National Center for Human Genome Research. The collection includes photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, laboratory notebooks, administrative records, teaching files,...
Dates:
1800s-2022
Found in:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives
Winship Herr, Aug 9-13, 2004
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Winship Herr's interview discusses the following:
Accepting Students to WSBS
Announcing CSHL’s New Graduate School Program
Collaboration Between Stonybrook University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Initial Discussions About a Graduate School at CSHL
Interest in Starting a Graduate School at CSHL
Involving the CSHL Community in the Development of the WSBS
Motivating Forces Toward the Development of a Graduate School at CSHL
Receiving Degree Granting Authority...
Dates:
Aug 9-13, 2004
Winship Herr, 2004-12-28
Item — Box AV02, miniDV: CSHL1066
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted with 200 scientists within the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and the life sciences between 1990 and 2024. The interviewees provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in the fields of modern biology, such as neuroscience, cancer, genetics, plant genetics, genomics, biotechnology and others, from the 1940s through the 2000s. The collection contains audio and video recordings, as well as transcripts of interviews....
Dates:
2004-12-28
Winship Herr, 2005-01-03
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted with 200 scientists within the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and the life sciences between 1990 and 2024. The interviewees provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in the fields of modern biology, such as neuroscience, cancer, genetics, plant genetics, genomics, biotechnology and others, from the 1940s through the 2000s. The collection contains audio and video recordings, as well as transcripts of interviews....
Dates:
2005-01-03
Additional filters:
- Type
- Archival Object 10
- Collection 3
- Subject
- Science Study and teaching 3
- Cancer--Research 2
- Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) 2
- Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 2
- Genetics 2
- Human Genome Project 2
- RNA 2
- Adenoviruses 1
- Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules. 1
- Bacterial genetics 1
- Bacteriophages 1
- Banbury Center 1
- Biochemistry 1
- Biotechnology Patents 1
- Bloomington (Ind.) 1
- Caenorhabditis elegans 1
- Cambridge (England) 1
- Cambridge (Mass.) 1
- Cancer 1
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic--pathology. 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 1
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Press 1
- Copenhagen (Denmark) 1
- Correspondence 1
- DNA 1
- DNA Replication 1
- DNA--Structure 1
- Epigenetics 1
- Eukaryotic cells--Research. 1
- Film transparencies 1
- Genomics 1
- Grant Proposals 1
- Grants and funding 1
- Human Genome Project--Economic aspects--United States. 1
- Human Genome Project--Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Human Genome--Patents 1
- Human genome 1
- Human genome--Congresses. 1
- Laboratory Notebooks 1
- Laurel Hollow (N.Y.) 1
- Long Island (N.Y.) 1
- Molecular Biology 1
- Neurobiology 1
- Nobel Prize winners 1
- Nobel Prizes 1
- Oncogenic viruses 1
- Plasmids 1
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1
- Proteins--Synthesis 1
- RNA interference 1
- Recombinant DNA 1
- Retroviruses 1
- Ribosomes 1
- Ribosomes Meeting (1973 : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 1
- SV40 (Virus) 1
- Small interfering RNA 1
- Tobacco Mosaic Virus 1
- Transposons 1
- UK Human Genome Mapping Project 1
- Viruses 1
- Watson School of Biological Sciences (WSBS) 1
- World Economic Forum. Meeting 1
- X-ray crystallography 1
- Zebra danio 1
- Zebrafish 1 + ∧ less
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