Agnes Ullmann

[SESTO Nina]

Hi all!

I talked to Agnes Ullmann and proposed her tto give a talk in our
school.
I should tell something about her..... She is very nice, fascinating
old lady originaly from Transylvania, studied in Budapest.... there
she discovered streptomycin acts by inhibiting protein synthesis. She
came to Paris in 1960 and started to work in Jacques Monod's lab in
Pasteur.... Important thing she had to do at that time, was to isolate
lac represor - the one supposed to be an RNA and at the end was
protein. That finding provided the first example of a transcriptional
regulation system and definition of promoter.... as you probably
learned in school when you where 10.
If you are doing white blue selection of bacteria (b-galactosidase
assay), she aslo did that!....

But what is important here is that she worked and participated in how
science was made during post-World War II period - when the concepts
where developed, absolutely central to modern biology. She will gladly
tell us about what should one know about the past....

For the next genome club, I will tell you more about her, and try to
get few papers to read... than we can plann further. I think end of
April would be reasonable to organise everything.

Cheers,
Nina

[David Bikard]

That would be great!

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David Bikard
Unité "Plasticité du Génome Bactérien"
Département de Génomes et Génétique
Institut Pasteur
25,rue du Dr Roux
75724 Paris cedex 15
email: dbi...@gmail.fr
Tel : 33 .1.44.38.94.83