The Cold Spring Harbor Phage Course (1945-1970): a 50th anniversary remembrance

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The Cold Spring Harbor Phage Course, started in 1945 by Max Delbruck, provided basic training in phage biology. The course included training in plague containing, soft agar plating, sterile technique and serial dilution. The course that had a 25-year life-span was taught at different places every year, including remote sites. Graduates of the course included noted molecular biologists such as Gunther Stent, Robert Edgar, Norton Zinder and Mark Adams.

Study and teaching, Bacteriophages, Molecular biology

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My favorite animal, Trichoplax adhaerens

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Trichoplax adhaerens attracts the attention of modern multidisciplinary research as it is simply organized metazoan animal, possesses the smallest genome of all metazoans and is undergoing whole-genome sequencing. Understanding the genetic control of its development would clarify basic principles of metazoan organization and success of the research depends on progress at organismal level, particularly with respect to documenting life cycle.

Physiological aspects, Genetic aspects, Metazoa, Metazoans, Animal development, Marine invertebrates

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In remembrance: Norton B. Gilula (1944-2000)

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Norton B. Gilula, a cell biologist, served as Dean of Graduate Studies Program and Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology of The Scripps Research Institute. His research interests were in invertebrate gap junctions involved in the transfer of information between cells in the form of transporting cyclic nucleotides of biological importance.

Obituary, Biologists, Gilula, Norton B.

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