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Smithies, Oliver

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Mutation Induction and Heritability in Mammalian Germ Cells, 1989-11-12 - 1989-11-15

 File
Scope and Contents

The Mutation Induction and Heritability in Mammalian Germ Cells meeting dealt with such important topics as How do mutations arise in germ-line cells? Can these mutations be repaired? How can they be detected? In particular, participants reviewed the ways in which new technical developments such as polymerase chain reaction can be used to get estimates of germ cell mutation rates.

Dates: 1989-11-12 - 1989-11-15

Smithies, Oliver, 1967 - 1989

 File — Box CR38, Folder: 02
Identifier: JDW_02_02_1696_001
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...
Dates: 1967 - 1989