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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....
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The Mark Ptashne Collection contains two separate correspondence series. The first contains correspondence with Dr. George Klein of the Karolinska Institute, the renowned microbiologist, philosopher, and author. The second series contains correspondence with over one hundred scientists, including Nobel laureates Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Walter Gilbert. This series also contains clippings, photographs, essays, and reports.The Ptashne-Klein materials cover a wide range of...
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The Rare Books Collection encompasses 352 linear feet and over 2,500 books from the early days of the history of molecular biology and genetics. Please see the CSHL Library catalog for the complete listing of rare books.The Rare Books Collection can be searched using ...
This collection consists entirely of memorabilia. Material includes awards, certificates, and gifts presented to Richard J. Roberts for honorary awards, degrees, lectures, etc.
The Dr. Gerald Rubin Collection contains documents pertinent to the Drosophila sequencing project collaboration in 1999, the Celera Genomics collaboration, and correspondence with the Department of Energy concerning support for model organism sequencing.
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The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives houses the collection of scientific, administrative and personal materials of CSHL President and Chief Executive Officer, biochemist and cancer researcher Bruce W. Stillman. Dr. Stillman began his career at CSHL in 1979 and has served as the Lab’s Director since 1994, and its President since 2003. The collection is largely comprised of administrative papers, the scientific research/experiments done in Dr. Stillman’s Laboratory, and limited personal...
The Jeffrey Strathern Collection documents the experimental laboratory work performed by Dr. Jeffrey N. Strathern during his tenure at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in what was known as the “Yeast Group”. The collection consists of laboratory notebooks which include photographs and audiographs.
The Dr. Raquel Sussman Collection (1944-2007) consists of material collected throughout her scientific career, including correspondence, subject files, laboratory notebooks, photographs, and reprints spanning a 40 year period in both Spanish and English.
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The Waclaw Szybalski Collection contains material related to Dr. Szybalski's research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1951-1955, as well as material from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's predecessor institutions'such as the 1920 edition Cold Spring Harbor Song Book and printed material from the Long Island Biological Association (LIBA). Material also includes hadnwritten and typed course notes from teaching "Selected Methods in Bacterial Genetics (1951-1952 and 1957); student cards and...
