Open AccessBeginner’s Luck
Author(s) -
Evelyn M. Witkin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2015.08.048
Subject(s) - biology , luck , drosophila (subgenus) , genetics , bacteria , escherichia coli , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , philosophy , theology
On June 5, 1944, I discovered a radiation-resistant mutant of E. coli in my first experiment at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratories. That’s where the new field of bacterial genetics was germinating. I was a Columbia University graduate student, there to learn how to handle E. coli so I could do my doctoral research with bacteria.
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