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Yale University, Boyner Center for Molecular Biology. "Dr. Joshua Lederberg will present the sixth lecture: 'Emerging Microbial Diseases: Issues for Concern; Strategies for Prevention and Containment'."
Yale University, Boyner Center for Molecular Biology. "Dr. Joshua Lederberg will present the sixth lecture: 'Emerging Microbial Diseases: Issues for Concern; Strategies for Prevention and Containment'."
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Curie Institute Yale University. Boyner Center for Molecular Medicine
The lecture was given on February 17, 1998. The photograph below the announcement is of a commemorative plaque in the archway of Yale University's Osborn Botanical Laboratory which reads: IN THIS BUILDING WERE PERFORMED IN 1946, THE HISTORIC EXPERIMENTS OF JOSHUA LEDERBERG. THEN A YALE GRADUATE STUDENT, AND EDWARD L. TATUM, THEN A YALE PROFESSOR, WHICH DESCRIBED FOR THE FIRST TIME THE PHENOMENON OF GENETIC RECOMBINATION IN BACTERIA. THIS FINDING, WHICH REVOLUTIONIONIZED BIO-CHEMICAL GENETICS AND HELPED TO ESTABLISH THE SCIENCE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, LED TO A SHARED AWARD OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE AND PHYSIOLOGY IN 1958.
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