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Notes from Salk Institute Seminars

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Notes (holograph) made by Crick at the following seminars at the Salk Institute (for notes on Salk Institute seminars, 1988-2003 see series PP/CRI/L/7).

In most cases, the notes are accompanied by a printed seminar title sheet.

1. Dr Jon Cooper, "In vitro translation of vaccinia virus mRNAs" (11 May, 1978).

2. Dr Mary Lou Pardue, "The heat-shock response in drosophilia: a model system of co-ordinated genes" (11 May, 1978).

3. Dr Richard Squires, "Some properties of brain-specific benzodiazepine receptors" (5 May, 1978).

4. Dr Gail Martin, "Uses of teratocarcinoma cells in studies of mammalian development" (4 May, 1978).

5. Dr James Cutting, "Perceiving invariant relations in dynamic forms" (27 April, 1978).

6. Dr Eran Zaidel, "Language in the right hemisphere" (20 April, 1978).

7. Dr Arnold J Berk, "The synthesis of spliced viral mRNA in adeno and SV40 infected cells" (17 April, 1978).

8. Dr Gunnar Johansson, "Perception of biological motion" (13 April, 1978).

9. Notes lacking a printed seminar title sheet, beginning "Phil Sharp / One transcriptional unit" (UCLA, 7 April, 1978).

10. Dr J Allan Hobson, "Neuronal mechanisms controlling sleep states" (3 April, 1978).

11. Notes lacking a printed seminar cover sheet for a seminar delivered by Heiner Westphal (22 March, 1977).

12. Notes lacking a printed seminar title sheet for a seminar delivered by Michael Ashburner (UCSD, 14 March, 1978).

13. Dr Norman White, "Dopamine systems in re-inforcement and memory" (3 March, 1978).

14. Dr Victoria Fromkin, "Language and the brain: slips of the tongue and hand" (3 March, 1978 - title sheet only, no notes in file).

15. Dr Steven A Hillyard, "Electrophysiological approaches to human information processing" (2 March, 1978).

16. H C Longuet-Higgins, "A computational model of language acquisition" (22 February, 1978 - title sheet only, no notes in file).

17. H C Longuet-Higgins, "The perception of music" (21 February, 1978 - title sheet only, notes recto).

18. Dr Doreen Kimura, "The evolution of communication" (7 February, 1978 - title sheet only, no notes in file).

19. Rodman Miller, "The ultrastructure of myelin" (3 February, 1978 - title sheet only, no notes in file).

20. Dr Arthur Riggs, "Expression in E. coli of a chemically synthesized gene for somatostatin" (5 December, 1977).

21. Dr A J Varshavsky, "On the structure of prokarytic, eukarytic, and viral chromatin" (2 December, 1977 - notes verso title sheet).

22. Professor John H Flavell, "Development of percept cognition" (1 December, 1977).

23. Dr Lionel Jaffe, "Control of development by ionic currents" (22 November, 1977).

24. Notes lacking a printed seminar title sheet for a seminar delivered by Richard Axel (18 November, 1977).

25. Dr Jay Tischfield, "Genetics and biochemistry of adenine analog resistance" (17 November, 1977).

26. Dr E M Bradbury, "Histone interactions, histone modifications and chromatin structure" (16 November, 1977 - notes verso title sheet).

27. Dr Walter Lichtensteiger, "Central dopamine systems as regulators and targets of peptide hormones" (15 November, 1977).

28. Dr Miriam Salpeter, "Acetylcholine receptor and esterases at the neuromuscular junction studied by EM autoradiography" (14 November, 1977).

29. Dr Charles B Nemeroff, "Role of tuberoinfundibular systems in neuroendocrine homeostasis" (11 November, 1977).

30. Dr Michael Levitt, "Energy calculations on proteins and nucleic acids" (10 November, 1977 - notes lacking a printed seminar title sheet). Attached are two further leaves of notes and reference to a separate Levitt seminar on 9 November.

31. James Garrels, "Muscle and nerve cell differentiation in culture: analysis by a computerised two-dimensional gel system" (3 November, 1977).

32. Dr Michael Levitt, "[illegible] investigation of biological molecules" (1 November, 1977 - notes lacking a printed seminar title sheet).

33. "Notes on talk with Manfred Eigen" (1 November, 1977 - single sheet of notes).

34. Professor Manfred Eigen, "Fidelity of replication and information content of phage Qß" (31 October, 1977).

35. Notes lacking a printed seminar title sheet for a seminar delivered by Herb Stern (UCSD, 28 October, 1977).

36. T[illegible] from Basle, "The organisation of immunoglobulin genes" (SCUPS, 27 October, 1977 - notes lacking a printed seminar title sheet).

37. Dr Darwin Berg, "Neuronal development and synapse formation in vitro" (27 October, 1977).

38. Dr A J Harris, "Trophic interactions between nerve and muscle" (26 October, 1977).

39. Professor Paul J Flory, "Theory of liquid crystalline phases in macromolecular systems" (25 October, 1977), and "Structure, conformation and properties of macromolecules" (24 October, 1977). Single title sheet only, no notes in file, venue not clearly identified.

40. John Merlie, "Still more about the acetylcholine receptor" (21 October, 1977).

41. Karen Beemon (with Tony Hunter), "What is the Rous sarcoma virus src gene product?" (13 October, 1977 - brief notes recto title sheet).

42. Dr Dona Chikaraishi, "Transcriptive complexity of mammalian tissues and tumors" (7 October, 1977).

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