27th October 1959

 

ISTITUTO DI GENETICA Professor J. Lederberg,
UNIVERSITA DI PAVIA Department of Genetics,
po University of Stanford
PAVEA Medical Center,
VIA SANT’ EPIFANIO, 14 - TEL, 23,029 Stanford, California

Dear Joshua,

I was very pleased to receive youtletter in time
for providing Giovanni, who left yesterday, with the
relevant information. Giovanni is due to arrive in
Berkezey on Tuesday, November 10th, and will call you
to arrange a meeting with you before the 14th. He
will know, by that time, the reaction of the other end
of Interist and will be able to tell you more about our
present setuP and possibilities of increasing it. I
agree with all your letter, including the possibility of
a visit of yours to Bloomfield. I simply mention” it
because I anticipate that Schering will be interested to
meet you and have youX visit their labs; of course your
visit might take place only if they ask for it, and only
when convenient to you. Fortunately, the Vice President
of Schering, Waterman, who deals with research, is a very
pleasant and intelligent man, himself a successful research
chemist some time ago (vitamin B} ). ,

Did you advise me to attend the SGM Symposium or the
space biology meeting, or both? I may be attending the
SGli meeting as I have an invitation to go to Cambridge
if I can make dates combine. It might give Alba a chance
to see England and friends again.

Naturally we would very much like to see you here in
transit to or from Nice. I am giving spearately some
information on the Milan-Nice trip.

Concerning the course: it would certainly ease me
to drop part or all of the physiological genetics, where
I am weakest. However, the dates of the Geneva Seminar,
whieh I believed had been fixed, are liable to be changed

from what I have lately been told, and as I have a definite
interest in attending it, in view of future developments,
I cannot as yet ma;,e detailed plans.

The 3 technique seems to work now, so do not bother
to give Giovanni ingredients for EM, EMS media. May I
ask you to give Giovanni strains useful for repeating the
“double entry" experiment unless you have new information
or plans making the repetition and further development
uninteresting. Essentially, a Gal-Lp®fry- female is
what is needed, as well as the Hfro strain giving double
entry. I do not recall the strain numbers and have no
copy of the detailed experiments.

All the best, and perhaps I'll be seeing you both
soon, although at separate times.

Yours,

isin