Request to`kesearch Gomittee for &search Suprort for the Year 1995-17i;b

TITLI3 AHD 5!.EASOK5 2'02 TIE STUDY? Genetics of 23acter5.a. -This is a continuing ;lro,gram
on the life cycles and genetic m&m&sms of b?mtmie.  Information fMm bacterial
genetics is of the utmost importance both for the understanding and cmtrol of the
individual microbes that are studied, but also for its bearing on gcxm-al genetic
problems: relationship 0 f gem to chromooome, gene action, position effect, and the
nature of viruses.

PKXX?~?EEr This is also outlined on thz attached sheets. rith no substantial ox-
ce@on, the research depends on laboratory studies in t1tis department.

FIm.ITCI iiT ., SWpOiiT~ Last year's request was qualified ?>y a reasonable expectation of
- fellowship award which did not, however, materialize.  i'he bud,pt is comparable to
iimt *year's, except that other sources will suffice for supplim3.  Again the fourth
assistantship, if allotted, my be vacated if certain fellowshQ prospects are
achieved but Uris cannot be anticipated now. The requested budget !'ollows~

4 U-month assfstantshi;m, at 1,500
Hourly help (dishwashing)

If required by stringency of &odes, one of the assistantships xi&t 17~ parod to a
ten-month appointment, as it In uncortafn whet&r the can&date would begin in Jul;
or September.

1.  Rr. R. 5. 2rrlght (E.S., 3iochemistry, Y.!!.) Incumbent and an excellent
  student and assfstant.

2.  Mr. Tetsuo Iino is a Japanese student who will not arrive until February I.955
  owing to shortage of research space here.  He has the equivalent nf an X.5.,
  some research experience in microbial agents, excellent recommendations, and
  a Fulbrigk travel g-m&

3. Miaa R. Ruth Zloten (H.S., Cenetlcs, &nit&a) has spent this year working
as an assistant in another laboratory (Professor *man, Vet Sci,) for the
  same space reasons.  I&r work as a student and assistant to date appears
  to be conm?tandable.

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Lt8            to be chosen from ourrent applicants; or, if required by
  rearrangemnt of funds, may be used to pay part of salary of a till-time
tecftical assistant (Hz-s. Dorothy Gostiny:, N.S., ?3acteriology, Hs.)

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics
University of L%5consin