Bacterial conjugation: from infectious sex to computer wires - Fernando de la Cruz

This meeting was held from Sunday, September 21, to Tuesday, September 23, 2014, in the Hershey Laboratory, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York. The meeting was hosted by the CSHL Genentech Center for the History of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. The CSHL Genentech Center Conferences aim to explore important themes of discovery in the biological sciences, bringing together scientists who made many of the seminal discoveries that began the field with others whose interests may include the current status of the field, the historical progress of the field, and/or the application of these techniques and approaches in biotechnology and medicine. Organizers of the meeting were: Stanley N. Cohen, Stanford University School of Medicine; Stanley Falkow, Stanford University School of Medicine; Richard Novick, New York University; Dhruba Chattoraj, National Cancer Institute; Christopher Thomas, University of Birmingham, UK; Jan Witkowski, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The meeting featured speakers from the US and Canada, as well as Belgium, Germany, France, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. See: http://library.cshl.edu/Meetings/plasmid/.