Microbial evolution and co-adaptation
Subtitle: a tribute to the life and scientific legacies of Joshua Lederberg : workshop summary
By: rapporteurs, David A. Relman ... [et al.] ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Contributors: Lederberg, Joshua.; Relman, David A.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Microbial Threats.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780309131216
Subjects: Genetics, Microbial -- Congresses; Adaptation, Biological -- Congresses; Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- Congresses; Evolution, Molecular -- Congresses; Microorganisms -- Evolution -- Congresses; Communicable diseases -- Congresses; Evolution -- Congresses; Adaptation (Biology) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Other titles: Tribute to the life and scientific legacies of Joshua Lederberg
Description: "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."
Notes: Papers resulting from a public workshop held on May 20-21, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Avail. in electronic form.
Table of contents: title: Workshop overview; title: Appendix: WO-1. Infectious history / Joshua Lederberg; title: The life and legacies of Joshua Lederberg; title: Reflections on the career of Joshua Lederberg / David A. Hamburg; title: Joshua Lederberg remembered / Stephen S. Morse; title: The life and impact of a legend-Joshua Lederberg / Adel Mahmoud; title: Microbial ecology and ecosystems; title: War and peace: humans and their microbiome / David A. Relman; title: Deciphering the complex molecular dialogue of symbiosis: Esperanto or polyglot? / Margret McFall-Ngai; title: Pathogen evolution; title: Bacterial pathogenicity: an historical and experimental perspective / Stanley Falkow; title: Evolution of bacterial-host interactions: virulence and the immune overresponse / Elisa Margolis and Bruce R. Levin; title: Antibiotic resistance: origins and countermeasures; title: Antibiotic resistance and the future of antibiotics / Julian Davies; title: Microbial drug resistance: an old problem in need of new solutions / Stanley N. Cohen; title: Expanding the microbial universe: metagenomics and microbial community dynamics / Jo Handelsman; title: Infectious disease emergence: past, present, and future; title: Emerging infections: condemned to repeat? / Stephen S. Morse; title: Ecological origins of novel human pathogens / Mark Woolhouse and Eleanor Gaunt; title: Genomic evolvability and the origin of novelty: studying the past, interpreting the present, and predicating the future / Jonathan A. Eisen; title: Can we predict future trends in disease emergence? / Peter Daszak; title: Appendices: A. Agenda; title: B. Acronyms; title: C. Glossary; title: D. Forum member biographies.