Microbial evolution and co-adaptation [electronic resource] : a tribute to the life and scientific legacies of Joshua Lederberg : workshop summary / rapporteurs, David A. Relman ... [et al.] ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

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Book
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English
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Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2009.
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1 online resource (xx, 309 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.)

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"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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Papers resulting from a public workshop held on May 20-21, 2008.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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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.
Other title(s)
Tribute to the life and scientific legacies of Joshua Lederberg
ISBN
  • 9780309131223 (electronic bk.)
  • 0309131227 (electronic bk.)
OCLC
568026960
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