Suzanne Bourgeois Papers, 1949-2019 (MSS 845)

OFF-SITE STORAGE: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Extent: 12.4 Linear feet (31 archives boxes)

Papers of geneticist Suzanne Bourgeois, containing a selection of her lab notebooks and binders, correspondence, and historical research on the founding of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Suzanne Bourgeois was a micro-biologist and geneticist who researched the regulation of gene expression and authored a book on the founding of the Salk Institute, Genesis of the Salk Institute (UC Press, 2013). She began her research career in the 1950s at the University of Paris/Sorbonne and the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France under the supervision of Jacques Monod. In 1963 she moved her lab to La Jolla along with her husband Melvin Cohn, another scientist at the Institute Pasteur and Founding Fellow of the Salk Institute. After a 40-year research career, Bourgeois transitioned to public presentations on the state of cancer research and the history of the Salk Institute.

For more information, see Bourgeois' Salk Institute faculty profile and bibliography at https://www.salk.edu/scientist/suzanne-bourgeois/.

The collection documents the professional work of Bourgeois and her lab staff in genetic research, along with her correspondence and historical research into the early Salk Institute. Much of her laboratory work at Pasteur and Salk was stored in binders containing data, charts, illustrations, notes on discussions and lectures, and lists of chemicals. The collection also contains original documents pertaining to the early years of the Salk Institute, such as reports, newsletters, memos, committee minutes, and seminar notes from the 1960s and 1970s that had been stored in various filing cabinets around the Salk campus and compiled by Bourgeois for her book. A small selection of material in this collection consists of material reproduced for Bourgeois from the Archives of the Institute Pasteur, from the fonds Cohn and fonds Monod.

Arranged in eight series: 1) MISCELLANEOUS; 2) SALK INSTITUTE RECORDS; 3) RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE; 4) RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE SALK INSTITUTE; 5) WRITINGS AND TALKS; 6) GENESIS OF THE SALK INSTITUTE; 7) CORRESPONDENCE; 8) MEL COHN MATERIALS.

Container List

MISCELLANEOUS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) MISCELLANEOUS contains biographical files and photographs of Bourgeois.

Box 1 Folder 1
Photographs, 1950-1960
Box 1 Folder 2
Bourgeois dossier file, ca. 1965

Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.

Box 1 Folder 3
National Academy of Sciences nomination process, 1986
Box 1 Folder 4
Biographies and CV, 2003
Box 1 Folder 5
La Jolla Historical Society silent auction photographs, 2013

SALK INSTITUTE RECORDS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) SALK INSTITUTE RECORDS contains reports, newsletters, memos, committee minutes, seminar notes, and staff lists. Some materials belonged to Bourgeois, other had been stored in various filing cabinets around the Salk campus and were collected in the course of her research for Genesis.

Box 1 Folder 6
Jacques Monod manuscripts and notes, ca. 1965
Box 1 Folder 7
Jacques Monod meetings and correspondence, 1961-1973

Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.

Box 1 Folder 8
Salk Institute architecture and facilities booklet, 1964
Box 1 Folder 9
Salk Institute organizational charts, 1964-2005
Box 1 Folder 10
Jonas Salk memos, 1966-1967
Box 1 Folder 11
Plan for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, with appendix of past and present work of fellows, 1967
Box 1 Folder 12
The Salk Institute: 1968-1969 Current and Projected Activities, 1969
Box 1 Folder 13
Conference on chemical and biological warfare, 1969

Letter to Henry Kissinger from J.E. Slater and members of the Salk Institute-American Academy Conference on Chemical and Biological Warfare.

Box 1 Folder 14-15
Joint committee on Renaissance Studies, UCSD and the Salk Institute, 1969
Box 2 Folder 1
Notes distributed at lectures on the nervous system, 1969
Box 2 Folder 2
Workshop on problems of drugs and drug addiction, 1969
Box 31 Folder 1
John Hunt writings and correspondence, 1970-1973

Includes information about the Fondation Royaumont and CIEBAF (Centre international d'études bioanthropologiques et d'anthropologie fondamentale / International center for the study of bioanthropology and fundamental anthropology).

Box 2 Folder 3
Board of trustees, 1970-1974
Box 2 Folder 4-10
Committee memos and newsletters, 1970-1977

Bourgeois was a member of the Operating Committee and Senior Faculty Committee.

Box 2 Folder 11
Central influences on American life seminar, 1971
Box 2 Folder 12
Annual Report of the Director to the Fellows, 1971-2
Box 2 Folder 13
Annual Report of the Director to the Board of Trustees, 1971, 1973-4
Box 3 Folder 1
Annual Report of the Director to the Fellows, 1974-5
Box 3 Folder 2-6
Annual fellows meeting, 1974-1978
Box 3 Folder 7
Faculty meetings, 1975
Box 3 Folder 8
Annual board of trustees meeting, 1975
Box 3 Folder 9
By-laws, 1975
Box 3 Folder 10
Precis on science and human values, 1976
Box 4 Folder 1-2
Report on laboratory staffing and publications, 1976-1978
Box 4 Folder 3
Jonas Salk Foundation, 1984
Box 4 Folder 4
Memos announcing Jonas Salk's death and ceremony, 1995-1996
Box 4 Folder 5
Faculty meetings, 2002
Box 4 Folder 6
Memos and notes, 2005-2007
Box 4 Folder 7
Alumni from the Bourgeois and Cohn labs, 2010
Box 4 Folder 8
Townhall poster, 2012
Box 4 Folder 9
Salk Institute communications department, 2013

RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE contains lab research notes and fundraising materials from the Pasteur Institute.

Box 4 Folder 10
Carbon dioxide and bacterial growth, 1955

Includes Bourgeois' thesis "Le role de l'anhydride caronique dans les croissances bacteriennes."

Box 4 Folder 11
Bacterial cellwall membranes, 1957-1962
Box 4 Folder 12
Regulation generalities, 1959-1963
Box 5 Folder 1
Microbial structure, 1959-1968
Box 5 Folder 2
Jacques Oudin manuscripts, 1960
Box 5 Folder 3
mRNA notes, 1961
Box 5 Folder 4
Lac operon, 1961-1998

Includes 2 glass plate photographs, 3 x 5 in.

Box 5 Folder 5-7
Binders 1-2: Cellular biochemistry, 1962-1963
Box 5 Folder 8-9
DNA replication binder, 1966 October

Also labelled: "Revolution culterelle."

Box 6 Folder 1
Notes with Jacques Monod, 1964-1969
Box 6 Folder 2
Pasteur Foundation giving, 2007-2013

RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE SALK INSTITUTE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE SALK INSTITUTE contains lab records and research notes by Bourgeois and her lab employees. Series is divided into four subseries: A) Lab Research Binders; B) Lab Staff Research Binders; C) Research; D) Lab Chemical Inventories Lists.

Lab Research Binders

Box 6 Folder 3-4
Binder 3: La Jolla 1, 1963-1964
Box 6 Folder 5-6
Binder 4: La Jolla 2, 1964
Box 6 Folder 7
Binder 5: La Jolla 3, 1964
Box 7 Folder 1
Binder 5: La Jolla 3, 1964
Box 7 Folder 2-3
Binder 6: La Jolla 4, 1964-1965
Box 7 Folder 4-6
Binder 7: La Jolla 5, 1965-1966
Box 7 Folder 7
Binder 9: La Jolla 7, complementation and mapping, 1965-1966
Box 8 Folder 1-2
Binder 8: La Jolla 6, 1965-1966
Box 8 Folder 3-4
Binder 10, 1965-1966
Box 8 Folder 5
Binder 11: projects, discussions, 1962-1966
Box 8 Folder 6
Binder 12: operator constitutive, 1966
Box 8 Folder 7
Binder 13: lectures and seminars, 1964-1967
Box 9 Folder 1-3
R (resistance) genes, 1966-1971
Box 9 Folder 4-5
Lac operon, 1966-1971
Box 9 Folder 6-7
Lac, super O, R-O assays, R-Z chimera, 1969-1977
Box 10 Folder 1
Lac, super O, R-O assays, R-Z chimera, 1969-1977
Box 10 Folder 2-3
Notes, technics, cell lines, RNA viruses, transfers and experiment, 1973-1982
Box 10 Folder 4-5
Cell lines, 1976-1993
Box 11 Folder 1
Amino acids and Lac operon, 1975-1976
Box 11 Folder 2
Viral RNA purification, 1979
Box 11 Folder 3-5
RNA extraction and nick translation, 1979-1980
Box 12 Folder 1-2
Viruses, ca. 1985
Box 12 Folder 3-4
RBIO Techniques, Plasmids 1987, 1987
Box 12 Folder 5
Southern blots, 1989-1990
Box 12 Folder 6
CD18 cDNA sequencing lab notebook, 1991
Box 13 Folder 1
CD18 cDNA sequencing lab notebook, 1991

Lab Staff Research Binders

Box 13 Folder 2-4
Diane Colby, 1969-1975
Box 13 Folder 5
Donald Gruol, cancer lab, 1979-1981
Box 13 Folder 6
Judy Gasson, 1979-1985
Box 14 Folder 1
Judy Gasson, 1979-1985
Box 14 Folder 2
Carol MacLeod, 1981-1982
Box 14 Folder 3-4
Denise Marie Johnson, MS23, 1982-1988
Box 14 Folder 5
Denise Johnson, MS23, 1983
Box 14 Folder 6
Denise Johnson, puromycin uptake, colchicine and dex selection, S7CDS-5 dose responses, 1983
Box 15 Folder 1
Denise Johnson, puromycin uptake, colchicine and dex selection, S7CDS-5 dose responses, 1983
Box 15 Folder 2-4
Denise Johnson, nuclear transfer, cytosols, scatchards, dex uptakes, 1983
Box 15 Folder 5-7
Doug Dean, fibronectin, 1984-1988
Box 16 Folder 1-4
Allen Koop, plasmids, 1984-1994
Box 16 Folder 5-6
Maureen T. Harrigan, 1987-1990
Box 16 Folder 7
Lois Chandler, 1987-1992
Box 17 Folder 1-4
Lois Chandler (includes cell lines, plasmids), 1987-1993
Box 17 Folder 5-6
Don Gruol, 1988-1995
Box 17 Folder 7
Gail Baughman, TCL-30, materials transferred, 1988-1996
Box 18 Folder 1-2
Gail Baughman, TCL-30, materials transferred, 1988-1996
Box 18 Folder 3
Claude Ehretsmann plasmids, cells notes, 1993-1994
Box 18 Folder 4
Hur-Song Chang lab notes, 1993-1996

Research

Box 18 Folder 5
Andre Lwoff, RNA, 1962
Box 18 Folder 6
Protein notes, 1962-1968
Box 18 Folder 7
Fellows antibody workshop, 1965
Box 18 Folder 8
Maltose, 1965-1981
Box 18 Folder 9
Arabinose operon, 1966-1967
Box 18 Folder 10-11
Seminar notes, 1984-1990

Lab Chemical Inventories and Lists

Box 19 Folder 1
List of chemicals in freezer, tests of requirements of strains, 1966
Box 19 Folder 2
Record of materials sent out of lab, 1971-1978
Box 19 Folder 3
Compound distribution record, 1978-1988
Box 19 Folder 4
Log of compounds received in the neuroendocrinology laboratories, 1978-1988
Box 19 Folder 5
Compound distribution record for GRF, 1982-1988
Box 20 Folder 1-2
Liquid nitrogen freezer log, 1983-1994
Box 20 Folder 3
Revco freezer log 1986-1997, 1986-1997
Box 20 Folder 4-6
Materials transferred: FN clones and Cell lines 1987-1995 (3 folders), 1987-1995

WRITINGS AND TALKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) WRITINGS AND TALKS contains manuscript drafts and slides of Bourgeois' work, mostly from after her late-career transition to public science and historical research.

Box 20 Folder 7
Manuscripts on cysteine and methionine, 1959
Box 21 Folder 1
"What everyone should know about cancer", ca. 2000
Box 21 Folder 2
Book review of "Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio" by Jeffrey Kluger, 2005
Box 21 Folder 3
"An experiment in symbiosis" in the 1960s: Arts at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 2005
Box 21 Folder 4
Interview for Inside Salk with Gina Kirchweger, 2008

Includes portrait photographs of Bourgeois.

Box 21 Folder 5
Interview for Scientific Report, 2008
Box 21 Folder 6
La Jolla Historical Society, "The emergence of pioneering scientific institutions in La Jolla", 2009
Box 21 Folder 7
Salk Institute faculty lecture, "The genesis of the Salk Institute", 2009
Box 21 Folder 8
PI's & their passions: "From cannon batteries to biological studies: the untold history of the Salk Institute", 2009
Box 21 Folder 9
PI's & their passions: "A look inside the book", 2013
Box 21 Folder 10
Biographical essay on Francois Jacob for the American Philosophical Society, 2013
Box 21 Folder 11
San Diego Union Tribune (U-T San Diego) interview, 2013
Box 21 Folder 12
KPBS midday and evening editions, 2014
Box 21 Folder 13
Back to basics lecture, 2014
Box 21 Folder 14
Salk Science at the Seaside Symposium, "A History of Science at Salk", 2014
Box 21 Folder 15
Book review for Isis of "Jonas Salk: a life" by Charlotte Degroes Jacobs, 2015
Box 21 Folder 16
"Genesis of the Salk Institute: The role of Jewish immigrants" at the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, 2015
Box 21 Folder 17
San Diego History Center, 2015
Box 22 Folder 1
Reminiscences of Manfred Eigen, 2017
Box 22 Folder 2
La Jolla Immunology Conference, 2017-2019

GENESIS OF THE SALK INSTITUTE (2013)

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) GENESIS OF THE SALK INSTITUTE contains manuscript drafts, publisher correspondence, and research files related to her book, which include archives, email correspondence, interview questions and transcripts. Arranged into three sub-series: A) Publishing & Administrative Work; B) Manuscript Drafts; and C) Research Notes.

Publishing & Administrative Work

Box 22 Folder 3
Proposal to the Salk Institute, 2004
Box 22 Folder 4
Jonas Salk collection archives access, 2005
Box 22 Folder 5
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborative research grant applications, 2005-2006
Box 22 Folder 6
Salk Institute archives access, 2005-2008
Box 22 Folder 7
La Jolla Historical Society and Ray Thomas Edwards Foundation grant, 2009
Box 22 Folder 8
Publisher search correspondence, 2009-2012
Box 22 Folder 9
Memorandum of Agreement with University of California Press, 2010
Box 22 Folder 10
Correspondence with University of California Press, general, 2010-2015
Box 22 Folder 11
University of California Press peer reviews, 2012
Box 22 Folder 12
Patricia Howard editing consult, 2011-2012
Box 22 Folder 13
University of California Press author questionnaires, 2013
Box 23 Folder 1
Author photograph, 2013
Box 23 Folder 2
Correspondence with University of California Press, cover jacket, 2013
Box 23 Folder 3
Correspondence with University of California Press, indexing, 2013

Manuscripts and Drafts

Box 23 Folder 4
Chapter summaries, 2012
Box 23 Folder 5-20
Chapter notes, 2005-2012

Contains handwritten notes and manuscript page edits.

Box 23 Folder 21
Illustrations, 2011
Box 23 Folder 22
Salk Institute timelines, 2006
Box 23 Folder 23
EndNote library, 2009
Box 24 Folder 1
Genesis of the Salk Institute reviews, 2013-2014

Research Notes

Box 24 Folder 2-3
Elena Aranova archives notes, 2005-2007
Box 24 Folder 4
Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO) archives notes, 2006
Box 24 Folder 5
Sandi Hendrickson notes on Salk Board of Trustees, 2006
Box 24 Folder 6
1965 antibody workshop, ca. 2000
Box 24 Folder 7
Architecture on Salk campus, 2008-2009
Box 24 Folder 8
Sylvia Bailey, 2005-2008
Box 24 Folder 9
Seymour Benzer, ca. 2000
Box 24 Folder 10
Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, 2008-2012
Box 24 Folder 11
Harry Boardman and the Council for Biology in Human Affairs, 2005
Box 24 Folder 12
Bill Brody, 2012
Box 24 Folder 13
Jacob and Rita Bronowski, 2010
Box 24 Folder 14
Soraya de Chadarevian interview with Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel, 1997

Francis Crick in conversation with Leslie Orgel and Soraya de Chadarevian, at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 1997 October 14. Trascribed from the Francis Crick papers (MSS660) at UCSD, available for request to listen here.

Box 24 Folder 15
City of Hope hospitals, ca. 2000
Box 24 Folder 16
Council for Biology in Human Affairs, 2006
Box 24 Folder 17
Antoine Danchin, 2006
Box 24 Folder 18
Dianne Day, 2007
Box 25 Folder 1
Renato and Maureen Dulbecco, 2007-2008
Box 25 Folder 2
Ron Evans, 2012
Box 25 Folder 3
Ann Freeman, 2007
Box 25 Folder 4
Lorraine Friedman, 2005-2010
Box 25 Folder 5
General Atomics, 2005-2007
Box 25 Folder 6
Francoise Gilot, 1996-2013
Box 25 Folder 7
The Hamilton Report, 2005
Box 25 Folder 8
Armand Hammer, 2008
Box 25 Folder 9
Frederic de Hoffman, 2011
Box 25 Folder 10
John Hunt, 2006-2008
Box 25 Folder 11
Francoise Jacob, 2013
Box 25 Folder 12
Lisa Jardine, 2008-2010
Box 25 Folder 13
Alan Hall Jobe, 2008
Box 25 Folder 14
Augustus Kinzel, ca. 2000
Box 25 Folder 15
Amy Koide, 2006
Box 25 Folder 16
La Jolla Immunology conferences, 2009
Box 25 Folder 17
March of Dimes, 2012
Box 25 Folder 18
Alison McDougall, 2010
Box 25 Folder 19
Jacques Monod, 2008
Box 25 Folder 20
Neil Morgan, 2007
Box 25 Folder 21
Walter Munk, 2005-2007
Box 25 Folder 22
Robert Olby, 2011
Box 25 Folder 23
Leslie Orgel, 2006
Box 25 Folder 24
Alwin Pappenheimer, ca. 2000
Box 25 Folder 25
Michael Parkhouse, 2006
Box 25 Folder 26
Patents, 2011
Box 25 Folder 27
The Phage Group, ca. 2000
Box 26 Folder 1
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, 2006
Box 26 Folder 2
Polio, 2009
Box 26 Folder 3
Roger Revelle, 2006
Box 26 Folder 4
Salk East, 2005
Box 26 Folder 5
Salk Institute Biotechnology Industrial Associates Inc. (SIBIA), 2008
Box 26 Folder 6
Jonas Salk, 1965-1995
Box 26 Folder 7
Peter Salk, 2012
Box 26 Folder 8
Arthur Silverstein, 2012-2012
Box 26 Folder 9
Sociologists at Salk (Robert Merton and Bruno Latour), 2005
Box 26 Folder 10
Julius Tabin, 2008
Box 26 Folder 11
Jamie Talas, 2009
Box 26 Folder 12
Susumu Tonegawa, 2008
Box 26 Folder 13
Warren Weaver, 2011
Box 26 Folder 14
Mel Yoakum, 1996-2008

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) CORRESPONDENCE contains Bourgeois' letters and emails. Series is organized as it was received by the library, in parts arranged by single correspondent folders, some chronological folders, and some alphabetical folders. Arranged into two subseries: A) Correspondent Files; and B) Alphabetic & Chronological Files.

Correspondent Files

Box 26 Folder 15
Salk Institute offer letter, 1963
Box 26 Folder 16
Claude Burstein, 1963-1965
Box 26 Folder 17
Benno Mueller-Hil, 1967
Box 26 Folder 18
Ron Newby, 1967-1975
Box 26 Folder 19
Monod - Bourgeois, 1969-1971

Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.

Box 26 Folder 20
Hildegard Geyer, 1976-1977
Box 26 Folder 21
Joyce McCann, 1977
Box 26 Folder 22
Donald Crothers, 1977
Box 26 Folder 23
Michel Crepin, 1979-1986
Box 26 Folder 24
Martin Rosenberg, 1982-1983
Box 26 Folder 25
Salk family, 1998-2018
Box 26 Folder 26
Madeleine Brunerie, 2004

Regarding access to the Archives Institut de Pasteur.

Box 26 Folder 27
Linda Chester, 2009
Box 26 Folder 28
Francoise Gilot-Salk, 2009-2013
Box 26 Folder 29
Odile Jacob, 2013
Box 27 Folder 1
Correspondence from "Genesis of the Salk Institute" readers, 2013
Box 27 Folder 2
Benjamin Sacks, 2015
Box 27 Folder 3
Meredith Wadman, 2017

Alphabetic & Chronological Files

Box 27 Folder 4-10
Alphabetical A-G, ca. 1960-1990
Box 27 Folder 11
Chronological, 1974
Box 28 Folder 1-9
Chronological, 1975-1986
Box 29 Folder 1-3
Chronological, 1986-1990
Box 29 Folder 4
Miscellaneous, 1997-1998
Box 29 Folder 5
Miscellaneous, 2002-2019

MEL COHN MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) MELVIN COHN MATERIALS contains documents and records pertaining to Melvin Cohn, including biographical information, manuscripts, notes, and correspondence, part of which has been reproduced from the Archives of the Institute Pasteur.

Box 29 Folder 6
Melvin Cohn dossier file, ca. 1965

Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.

Box 29 Folder 7
Melvin Cohn biographical and CV file, 1964-2017
Box 29 Folder 8
Melvin Cohn research and notes, 1963-2018
Box 29 Folder 9
Melvin Cohn early publications, 1951
Box 29 Folder 10
Melvin Cohn UCLA lecture, 1964
Box 29 Folder 11
Structure and Synthesis of Antibodies summer session, Villa Falconieri, Frascati, Rome, 1966
Box 29 Folder 12
Melvin Cohn - James Barnett, 2003-2017
Box 29 Folder 13
Cohn reprint collection overview, 2005
Box 29 Folder 14
Inventaire de fonds d'archives Melvin Cohn, Institut Pasteur Service des Archives, 1999
Box 29 Folder 15
Jacques Monod - Melvin Cohn inventory, 1949-1974

Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.

Box 30 Folder 1-4
Jacques Monod - Melvin Cohn, 1949-1974

Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.

Box 30 Folder 5-6
Jacques Monod - Melvin Cohn, 1950-1970

Reproduced from the Fonds Cohn, Archives Institut de Pasteur.

Box 31 Folder 2
Jacques Monod - Melvin Cohn, personal, 1957-1965

Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.

Box 31 Folder 3-4
Jacques Monod - Melvin Cohn, originals, 1957-1961