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Microbial evolution and co-adaptation : a tribute to the life and scientific legacies of Joshua Lederberg : workshop summary / rapporteurs, David A. Relman ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Microorganisms--Evolution--Congresses.
- Microorganisms.
- Communicable diseases--Congresses.
- Communicable diseases.
- Evolution--Congresses.
- Evolution.
- Adaptation (Biology)--Congresses.
- Adaptation (Biology).
- Lederberg, Joshua.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Tribute to the life and scientific legacies of Joshua Lederberg
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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."
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780309177313
- 0309177316
- 9780309131223
- 0309131227
- OCLC:
- 568026960
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