Bundle of articles, booklets, leaflets and photographs about GM issues
Hard bound volume of publications and ephemera relating to the life and career of WCF Newton, Cytologist at the John Innes Horticultural Institution, and two photographs. Includes obituaries, scientific reprints and papers re his work at JIHI and WWI service.
MP3 copy of Caroline Dean being interviewed on The Life Scientific (BBC Radio) by Jim Al-Khalili originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 15 May 2018. Discussing her life in science and the genetics of vernalisation.
Virus Research Unit correspondence and photographs
Hardback, brown sketchbook with 'Oesterreichische Nationalbank' in gold lettering on the front containing etchings/engravings, drawings and postcard designs of buildings, landscapes and still life flowers, mostly undated. Places identified: Dorf and St Nicholas' Church, Hamburg in Germany, buildings in Prague and Vienna, Leopaldsberg and the Volksgarten (Vienna), Altausee, Hallstatt and Wachau in Austria.
The notes and correspondence of Arthur Ernest Watkins regarding the wheat collection gathered from all around the world in the 1920s and 30s for the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge (now held at the John Innes Centre). Also includes files and letters from the 1970s-90s belonging to later curators of the seed collection, Victor Chapman, Terry Miller and Steve Reader. Includes sowing notes and keys to classifications.
Notebooks [4 vols] Nos 10-13, 1974-77
Notebooks [3 vols] Nos 14-16, 1977-80
The volumes detail experiments conducted by Professor Ray Dixon FRS during his PhD and early postdoctoral period at the ARC Unit of Nitrogen Fixation, University of Sussex. The volumes from 1969-1976 detail the experiments which formed the basis of three papers published in Nature during the 1970s. 1. Dixon, R.A., and Postgate, J.R. (1971). Transfer of nitrogen-fixation genes by conjugation in Klebsiella pneumoniae. Nature 234, 47-48. 2. Dixon, R., and Postgate, J.R. (1972). Genetic transfer of nitrogen fixation from Klebsiella pneumoniae to Escherichia coli. Nature 237, 102-103. 3. Dixon, R., Cannon, F., and Kondorosi, A. (1976). Construction of a P plasmid carrying nitrogen fixation genes from Klebsiella pneumoniae. Nature 260, 268-271. Publication 2 is particularly notable, because it reported the first transfer of an entire nif gene cluster into an organism that does not fix nitrogen, thus engineering the first synthetic diazotroph. This work was conducted prior to the advent of recombinant DNA technology and has been highly cited. Publication 3 was also a landmark in the field, as it reported the engineering of a plasmid that enabled genetic characterisation and cloning of nitrogen fixation genes. It has formed the basis of many recent synthetic biology advances, including the engineering of nitrogenase components in plant mitochondria. Most volumes are organised chronologically, but the first volume is arranged into sections, which group details of methods used, and individual experiments separately.