Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg Archive
Unbound Files BZ, CA through CN

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BZ brown manila accordion file Personal correspondence: researchers and friends; Mailing list
CA brown manila accordion file Envelope containing letter and photographs from Joel Huberman
Photograph of "Biagi, Gino and EML" in Venice
Copy of Program from memorial service for Ellen Alexander
Letter from Fraser pointing out an error in the web site which Matthew corrected
Letters from Nester, Rudiger Schmitt, John Hennesey
Words to "The Plasmid Song" (composed by Esther Lederberg)
"Perspectives" edited by Jim Crow, 1989
"Replica Plating and Indirect Selection of Bacterial Mutants: Isolation of Preadaptive Mutants in Bacteria by Sib Selection"
Envelope of materials: Rudiger Schmitt
Letter from the NLM
Letters from Allan Campbell, Ann Ganesan
CB brown manila accordion file Copy of "Quantitative Effects of Radiation on Mutation Production in Neurospora crassa" by Sansome, E. R., A. Hollaender, E. Zimmer, and M. Demerec, Genetic Soc. of America 13, 1944.
Five copies of "Phase Variation in rec- Mutants of Salmonella typhimurium" by Esther M. Lederberg and B. A. D. Stocker, Bact. Proc. 1970, 35.
Copy of "Replica Plating and Indirect Selection of Bacterial Mutants" by Joshua Lederberg and Esther M. Lederberg, J. Bacteriol. 63(3), March, 1952, 399-406.
Two copies of Plasmid Reference Center "Plasmids of Tetracycline Resistance Determinants"
CC brown manila accordion file Three copies of "Nomenclature of Transposable Elements in Prokaryotes" by A. Campbell, P. Starlinger, D. E. Berg, D. Botstein, E. M. Lederberg, R. P. Novick, and W. Szybalski, Plasmid 2, 466-473 (1979).
"Short Communication: A Multiple Plasmid-Containing Escherichia coli Strain: Convenient Source of Size Reference Plasmid Molecules", by Francis L. Macrina, Dennis J. Kopecko, Kevin R. Jones, Deborah J. Ayers, and Sara M. McCowen, Plasmid 1, 417-420 (1978) with handwritten note from Dennis J. Kopecko
Camera-ready copy of "Strategies of the Plasmid Reference Center", E. M. Lederberg
Two copies of "Pleiotropy for maltose fermentation and phage resistance in Escherichia coli K-12", by E. M. Lederberg, Genetics 40:581-582, 1955. (NOTE: listed as pages 580-581 on these copies.)
CD green pendaflex file Copies of seven papers:
  1. "Study of the association of resistance to two drugs in a transferable determinant in Salmonella typhimurium" by E. S. Anders, Marianne V. Kelemen, Christine M. Jones and J.-S. Pitton, Genet. Res., Camb (1968), 11, pp. 119-121.
  2. "Change of host range in a resistance factor" by E. S. Anderson and E. J. Threlfall, Genet. Res., Camb. (1970), 16, pp. 207-214.
  3. "Derepression of F- lac in Salmonella typhimurium by a determinant for kanamycin resistance" by H. R. Smith, June N. Grindley, N. D. F. Grindley and E. S. Anderson, Genet. Res., Camb. (1970), 16, pp. 349-353.
  4. "The effects of Salmonella typhimurium on derepressed mutants of F-like factors" by N. D. F. Grindley, E. S. Anderson, H. R. Smith, and June N. Grindley, Genet. Res., Camb. (1971), 17, pp. 89-93.
  5. "Fertility Inhibition in strains of Salmonella typhimurium" by E. S. Anderson and H. R. Smith, Molec. Gen. Genet. (1972), 118, pp, 79-84.
  6. "Characterisation of Derepressed Mutants of an F-like R Factor" by N. D. F. Grindley, June N. Grindley, H. R. Smith, and E. S. Anderson, Molec. Gen. Genet. (1973), 120, pp. 27-34.
  7. "The characterization of plasmids in the enterobacteria" by E. S. Anderson and E. J. Threlfall, J. Hyg. Camb. (1974), 72, p. 471.
CE brown accordion file Kalckar/Yarmolinsky Correspondence": 16 letters, as follows:
Norman Davidson to Esther Lederberg
Esther Lederberg to Norman Davidson
Esther Lederberg to Yukinori Hirota
2 Herman Kalckar to Esther Lederberg
1 Esther Lederberg to Herman Kalckar
1 H. C. Wu (Kalckar) to Esther Lederberg
Esther Lederberg to Ken Sanderson
Esther Lederberg to Gerry Smith
2 Esther Lederberg to M. B. Yarmolinsky
5 M. B. Yarmolinsky to Esther Lederberg
CF brown accordion file Mostly reprints of papers, including:
One copy of "Galactose Mutations of Escherichia coli K-12 not amenable to Lambda transduction", by M. L. Morse, Genetics 48, 835-840, June 1963
Eight copies of "Phase Variation in rec- mutants of Salmonella typhimurium" by Esther M. Lederberg and B. A. D. Stocker, Bacteriological Proceedings 1970, p. 35.
Partial original typed document (most likely by Esther Lederberg) describing replica plating experiments. Typed document is marked in pen (this document is not a copy) "SAB, N. Central, 10-26-51". It is highly likely that "SAB" refers to Seymour A. Benzer.
Two copies of Sansome, E. R., A. Hollaender, E. Zimmer, and M. Demerec, "Quantitative effects of radiation on mutation production in Neurospora crassa", Genetics Society of America Number 13, 1944.
Five copies of Lederberg, E., 1958, "Fine structure of Gal loci in Escherichia coli K-12", Tenth International Congress of Genetics, Montreal
Lederberg, J., Lederberg, E. M., Zinder, N. D., Lively, E. R., 1951, "Recombination analysis of bacterial heredity", Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 16:413-443.
CG brown accordion file Reprints of papers:
"Interaction of streptomycin and a suppressor for galactose fermentation in E. coli K-12" by E. M. Lederberg, L. Cavalli-Sforza and J. Lederberg, PNAS 51(4) pp 678-682, April, 1964.
Perspectives: Anecdotal, Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics, James F. Crow and William F. Dove, Eds., "Reassessing Forty Years of Genetic Doctrine: Retrotransfer and Conjugation" by Robert G. Ankenbauer, Genetics 145: pp. 543-549, March, 1977.
Two copies of Perspectives: Anecdotal, Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics, James F. Crow and William F. Dove, Eds., "Forty Years Ago in GENETICS: The Unorthodox Mating Behavior of Bacteria" by L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genetics 132: pp. 635-637, November, 1992.
"Fertility Factors in Escherichia coli" by Helen L. Bernstein, Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology Xii, "The Biological Replication of Macromolecules", 1958.
Article, "James F. Crow Retires" (not a copy; page removed from the journal) . Handwritten notation: "WISC Medical Alumni 26; 3; Summer 1986 Jacqueline Kelley 1250 MSC, 1300 Univ Ave Madison WI 53706".
Copy of EML Curriculum Vitae with handwritten notation in upper right corner, "Sent MBCRR 6/1/89". This CV includes a list of 30 papers, the latest of which is Lederberg, E. M. 1987. Plasmid Reference Center Registry of Transposon (Tn) and Insertion Sequence (IS) Allocations through December 1986. Gene 51: pp. 115-118.
CH 3-hole-punch grey pocket folder 1988 Schedule, on teletype paper; various versions
Book review (pages ripped out of the original journal): "The Dynamic Genome" by Nina Federoff and David Botstein, about Barbara McClintock.
CI brown accordion file Microbial Genetics Bulletin no. 1, January 1950 (original)
Microbial Genetics Bulletin no. 44, May 1978 (original)
Microbial Genetics Bulletin no. 44, May 1978 (two copies, pp. 31-37 only)
Bibliography
CJ brown accordion file Correspondence between Esther M. Lederberg and Enrico Calef, K. Komagata, Victor L. Yu, George Jacoby, Julius Adler, Harrison Echols, Kiyoshi Kurahashi and Toshio Fukasawa
CK brown accordion file A number of reprinted articles, especially "Perspectives" (Genetics Society of America)
CL brown accordion file Beadle obituary
Beadle GSA "Perspectives"
Salvador Luria obituary
Four pages of notes used by Esther for a lecture she gave in 12-10-1969
Copies of Curriculum Vitae
Copies of publications
Copy of "Uniform Nomenclature for Bacterial Plasmids: a Proposal", Amer. Soc. Microb. March 1976, 40(1): 168-189 (by all six members of the Plasmid Nomenclature Committee
CM brown accordion file Assorted loose pages related to the PRC (Plasmid Reference Center): Plasmid Kits, Transposons (T1 through T10), etc.
CN green manila folder Max Planck Institute for the History of Science "A Short History of Molecular Biology", constructed from the internet; several pages
Russian interview with Esther Lederberg, Bombay, 1986 (English translation)
Russian version of above interview
Obituary of Gunther Stent
Letter from A. I. Oparin to J. Lederberg (English translation)
Russian letter from A. I. Oparin to J. Lederberg
Russian version of Esther Lederberg Wikipedia article, captured 6//2008; incomplete

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