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A Long and Winding (Collaborative) Bacteriophage Road
Sherwood Casjens Professor Emeritus School of Biological Science University of Utah sherwood.casjens@path.utah.edu As my time as a graduate student at Stanford University working on bacteriophage lambda waned, I thought I...
From Mississippi to MIT and Beyond
Jerry L. Bryant jerryleeb@me.com The story of my time in the King Lab is a little unique in that I was the first African American to join the lab and...
Amino Acid Side Chains Directing Tailspike Folding, Assembly and Maturation
Scott Betts scottbetts1@gmail.com I first met Jon King in 1995 after I invited him to travel to The University of Michigan to talk about his P22 tailspike research. At the...
Phage Transition: Spatial Organization of Phage Assembly
Christopher Bazinet bazinetc@stjohns.edu I came to MIT as a fresh grad student in the fall of 1979. Four years out of undergrad, I had spent a couple of years teaching,...
A Scientific Journey with Professor Jonathan A. King to Uncover Bacteriophage Assembly Process by Pushing the Boundaries of Cryogenic Electron Microscopy and Tomography
Wah Chiu Wallenberg-Bienenstock Professor Stanford University, Stanford, California wahc@stanford.edu For nearly 40 years, I have known Jonathan King through our collaboration on cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) of bacteriophages. In the...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Open Letter to MIT Faculty from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
November 4, 2021 Dear Colleagues: As faculty in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), we study a wide range of work and employment relations topics, including union-management...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression
Academic freedom and the right to freedom of speech or expression are related, but distinct. The legal right to freedom of speech only limits the state (originally only Congress) from...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Is MIT Losing Control of its Own Destiny?
Most people will take for granted that MIT is currently the most preeminent technical university in the world, and that it will remain so for the foreseeable future. Its prestige...