The Dr. Carol Greider Collection is composed of materials accrued by Dr. Greider during her postdoctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley from 1984-1987, and her early work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1997-1992. The collection consists of computer printouts, correspondence, course notebooks, emails [printed], graphs, journal articles, laboratory notebooks, photographs, reprints, scientific notes and x-ray films. The date range is from 1975-1992. The materials are directly related to Dr. Greider’s work with mentor Elizabeth Blackburn, which would lead to the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009. The Carol Greider Collection also contains two patents transferred by the Office of Technology Transfer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Scope and Contents
The Dr. Carol Greider Collection is composed of materials accrued by Dr. Greider during her postdoctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley from 1984-1987, and her early work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1997-1992. The collection consists of computer printouts, correspondence, course notebooks, emails [printed], graphs, journal articles, laboratory notebooks, photographs, reprints, scientific notes and x-ray films. The date range is from 1975-1992. The materials are directly related to Dr. Greider’s work with mentor Elizabeth Blackburn, which would lead to the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009. The Carol Greider Collection also contains two patents transferred by the Office of Technology Transfer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Arrangement
The materials arrived boxed in seven cubic boxes and five mailing boxes [14 X 17 X 1] containing 17 Kodak Film boxes. The papers are in good condition. The laboratory notebooks have tabs indicating sections; however, many are missing. There was not an inventory within the boxes received.Series I: Laboratory Notebooks, 1984-1986Series II: Rotation Notes & Group Meetings, 1983-1989Series III: Thesis, 1983-1987Series IV: Methods Notebooks, 1975-1979Series V: Class Notes, Berkeley, 1983-1987Series VI: Other, 1986Series VII: Diagnostic Films, 1983-1984Series VIII: Patents, 1999-2000
Biographical
Carol Greider was born in San Diego, California on April 15th, 1961. She received her B.A. in Biology in 1983 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 1987 from the University of California, Berkeley. She carried out her graduate research in the laboratory of Elizabeth Blackburn, working on telomeres, the sequences at the ends of chromosomes, in particular on the enzyme "telomere terminal transferase," known as telomerase.Greider and Blackburn shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak.Greider continued her research on telomerase when she came to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1988 as the second CSHL Fellow. On completion of her fellowship, she joined the CSHL faculty 1990-1992, promoted to Assistant Investigator (1990-1992), followed by Associate Investigator (1992-1994) and an Investigator (1994-1997).In 1997, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University where she is the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. In February 2014 Greider was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, in addition to Daniel Nathans Professor, and department director for Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Greider visited UC Santa Cruz while on sabbatical leave September 2019 - May 2020. On May 21, 2020 UC Santa Cruz announced Greider was joining their faculty as a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental (MCD) Biology. Greider began her position at UC Santa Cruz in October 2020.Gairdner Foundation International Award (1998)Member of the American Society for Cell Biology (1999)Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award (2000)Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2003)Richard Lounsbery Award (2003)Member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2004)Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2006) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak)Dickson Prize in Medicine (2006)Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2006) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn)Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University (2007) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn and Joseph G. Gall)Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak)Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2009) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn)
Preferred Citation
Carol Greider Collection. Carol Greider Collection, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives Digital Repository. 88-1525493. Update 2025-03-18. https://oa.cshl.libnova.com/view/CWG
Credit Line
Courtesy of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives.
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