Microbial Evolution and Co-Adaptation - A Tribute to the Life and Scientific Legacies of Joshua Lederberg: Workshop Summary

Dr. Joshua Lederberg - scientist, Nobel laureate, visionary thinker, and friend of the Forum on Microbial Threats - died on February 2, 2008. It was in his honor that the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats convened a public workshop on May 20-21, 2008, to examine Dr. Lederberg's scientific and policy contributions to the marketplace of ideas in the life sciences, medicine, and public policy. The resulting workshop summary, Microbial Evolution and Co-Adaptation, demonstrates the extent to which conceptual and technological developments have, within a few short years, advanced our collective understanding of the microbiome, microbial genetics, microbial communities, and microbe-host-environment interactions.

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• Authors: Board On Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Institute Of Medicine
• Assisted by: Eileen R. Choffnes (Editor), Margaret A. Hamburg (Editor), Alison Mack (Editor), David A. Relman (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2009
• EAN: 9780309131216
• ISBN: 978-0-309-13121-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General