Gluzman, Yakov

Scope and Contents From the Series: The correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing mail generated from 1975 to around 2012. Early parts of the collection consist mostly of handwritten or typed letters, with onion paper copies being common. In the later years, Maniatis transitioned to mostly using email and the majority of the correspondence is in that format.The collection is separated into seven subseries:I. Chronological Files, Set 1, 1981-1983 II. Chronological Files, Set 2, 1975-2005...

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...

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Ilan Gluzman talks about growing up on the grounds of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as a son of CSHL Scientist Yakov (Yasha) Gluzman.

Topics included: Hooper House, Blizzard of '78, Sledding Hill, Snowmen, Barbra McClintok and her dog, Canoeing and the Boathouse, Jones Lab roof, crab apple tree, James lab smell, firehouse, secret leaf pile, ski trips, animal house and the 25A bike trip.

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Research on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS, has shown that complex interactions between virus and host-cell factors govern expression of HIV genes. Controversial data have been accumulating about these interactionsAt this meeting relevant parties met and an attempt was made to untangle the confusion of the names of the HIV genes. This came to fruition later in the year with the publication in Nature of a proposal for a standardized nomenclature.