Pam Gillow
Keller Collection Bookplate
A collection of exceptional books on science-related topics can be found in the bookcase that is visible upon entry into the MBG departmental office (107 Biotech). These books can be borrowed for up to a month by all who are a part of MBG. Elizabeth Keller, for whom the Keller Reading Room was named, was an avid reader of general books on science, and this collection is maintained in her memory. Please make an effort to return borrowed books.
For those of you who tend to notice bookplates, look for the new bookplate designed by Pam Gillow (also in Molecular Biology & Genetics) that is in the inside cover of our most recently acquired books. Pam brought out three aspects of Elizabeth Keller's life that some of us remember well: her love of science and photography, and her memories of her childhood in China.
The following is a list of books currently a part of this collection:
- Ackerman, Diane A natural history of senses
- Angier, Natalie Natural obsessions: Striving to unlock the deepest secrets of the cancer cell
- Bleecker, Theodore Staying on top
- Comfort, Nathaniel C. The tangled field: Barbara McClintock's search for the patterns of genetic control
- Dawkins, Richard The blind watchmaker: Why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design
- Eisner, Thomas For the love of insects
- Forsyth, Adrian and Miyata, Ken Tropical nature: Life and death of the rain forests of central and south America
- Jamison, Kay Rayfield An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness
- Keller, Evelyn Fox A feeling for the organism: The life and work of Barbara McClintock
- Kruif, Paul De Microbe hunters
- Levi, Primo The periodic table
- Luria, S.E. A slot machine, A broken test tube: An autobiography
- McCarty, Maclyn The transforming principle: Discovering that genes are made of DNA
- Portugal, F H. and Cohen, J S. A century of DNA: A history of the discovery of the structure and function of the genetic substance.
- Quammen, David The song of the dodo: Island biography in an age of extinctions
- Sacks, Oliver The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales
- Thomas, Lewis The lives of a cell: Notes of a biology watcher
- Thomas, Lewis The medusa and the snail: More notes of a biology watcher
- Wallace, Bruce On the fringe of glory-The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories of the 1950s
- Wallace, Bruce The environment: As I see it, science is not enough
- Wallace, Bruce The environment 2: As I see it, the mold must be broken
- Watson, James D. The double helix: A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA