Comfort, Nathaniel C.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The correspondence series includes handwritten and typed letters, carbon copies, postcards and notes dating from 1916-2012. The bulk of the material covers Watson’s sojourn in Cambridge (1951-1954), Harvard (1956-1975) and as Director (1968-1994), President (1994-2003), Chancellor (2003-2007), and Chancellor Emeritus (2007-2011) of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Watson’s career at the Copenhagen Crystallography Lab and time at California Institute of Technology are...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The discovery of mRNA splicing in 1977 established a new step in the central dogma of molecular biology, the “flow” of genetic information from DNA to RNA to the protein product. Our meeting will focus on forty years of advances in this field with topics such as the spliceosome, alternative RNA splicing, diseases related to RNA splicing, and therapeutics focused on RNA splicing. The meeting will encompass discussions not only of what has already been accomplished, but also how this history...

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This meeting took a historical role of scientific archives and discussed the importance of oral history in the development of science. Participants examined the challenges and perspectives posed to scientific libraries and archives in the digital age. Participants included: Peter Hirtle, Robert C. Olby, E.M. Tansey, Peter J. Wosh. See http://library.cshl.edu/Meetings/hsci/ for a complete list.