| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 309 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Papers resulting from a public workshop held on May 20-21, 2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Workshop overview -- Appendix: WO-1. Infectious history / Joshua Lederberg -- The life and legacies of Joshua Lederberg -- Reflections on the career of Joshua Lederberg / David A. Hamburg -- Joshua Lederberg remembered / Stephen S. Morse -- The life and impact of a legend-Joshua Lederberg / Adel Mahmoud -- Microbial ecology and ecosystems -- War and peace: humans and their microbiome / David A. Relman -- Deciphering the complex molecular dialogue of symbiosis: Esperanto or polyglot? / Margret McFall-Ngai -- Pathogen evolution -- Bacterial pathogenicity: an historical and experimental perspective / Stanley Falkow -- Evolution of bacterial-host interactions: virulence and the immune overresponse / Elisa Margolis and Bruce R. Levin -- Antibiotic resistance: origins and countermeasures -- Antibiotic resistance and the future of antibiotics / Julian Davies -- Microbial drug resistance: an old problem in need of new solutions / Stanley N. Cohen -- Expanding the microbial universe: metagenomics and microbial community dynamics / Jo Handelsman -- Infectious disease emergence: past, present, and future -- Emerging infections: condemned to repeat? / Stephen S. Morse -- Ecological origins of novel human pathogens / Mark Woolhouse and Eleanor Gaunt -- Genomic evolvability and the origin of novelty: studying the past, interpreting the present, and predicating the future / Jonathan A. Eisen -- Can we predict future trends in disease emergence? / Peter Daszak -- Appendices: A. Agenda -- B. Acronyms -- C. Glossary -- D. Forum member biographies. |
| 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." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lederberg, Joshua. |
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Microorganisms -- Evolution -- Congresses.
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Microorganisms -- Evolution. |
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Communicable diseases -- Congresses.
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Communicable diseases. |
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Evolution -- Congresses.
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Evolution. |
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Adaptation (Biology) -- Congresses.
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Adaptation (Biology) |
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Genetics, Microbial. |
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Adaptation, Biological. |
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Communicable Diseases, Emerging. |
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Evolution, Molecular. |
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Congress.
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Festschrift.
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Electronic Books.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Lederberg, Joshua.
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Relman, David A.
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Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Microbial Threats.
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| Added Title |
Tribute to the life and scientific legacies of Joshua Lederberg |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Microbial evolution and co-adaptation. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2009 9780309131216 (DLC) 2009517253 (OCoLC)320590041 |
| ISBN |
9780309131223 (electronic book) |
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0309131227 (electronic book) |
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9780309131216 (paperback) |
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0309131219 (paperback) |
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