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Kate O'Connor-Giles joins faculty
Kurt Amann and Rob Kalejta granted tenure. Congratulations.
Sean Carroll elected to the Amercian Academy of Arts & Sciences
Feature: History of CMB
As one of the first of its kind, the Molecular Biology Graduate Program was formed in the late 1950's with the goal of providing a multi-disciplinary graduate training environment in the new area of molecular biology.
Salvador Luria, a Nobel laureate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was invited to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to analyze the specific conditions existing here and to suggest what might be done to further research and training in the active new field of "Molecular Biology." Luria suggested that molecular biology was likely to become the core of modern biology and the University should create a Center of Molecular Biology charged with the responsibility for promoting research and training in the area.
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Early history of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology Development of Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harlyn O. Halvorson, Biol Cell (2007) 99, 717-724 |
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Robert Bock |
Dramatic changes in the foundation of academic departments in our universities are uncommon. With the demonstration that DNA was the cellular source of genetic information, and that this information could be regulated, the field of molecular biology was born. Later, when scientists found that they could tinker with this information, the field matured. In an unusually rapid manner, molecular biology was integrated into the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This present article is a chronology of how it happened. What are the factors that made this transition possible in the University of Wisconsin? What lessons have we learned from this experience? |
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