SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD. CALIFORNIA 94505

JOSHUA LEDERBERG
JOSEPH D. GRant PROFESSOR February 2, 1978
OF GENETICS

Professor Orio Ciferri

Instituto de Microbiologia E Fisiologia Vegetale
Universita di Pavia

Via Sant'Epifanio, 14

27100 Pavia

Italy

Dear Orio:

You will understand from the enclosed clipping why I did not
immediately respond to your letter of January 3rd. It is still difficult
to define just what the situation will be, but it looks, unfortunately,
as if there really is no practical base for continuing the GC/MS work
here at Stanford beyond this fall or thereabouts. On the other hand
we are looking for ways that might make it possible to transfer a good
bit of that activity to The Rockefeller University in New York. Perhaps
that will give the opportunity to build still another bridge, or at
least a stepping stone between Pavia and Stanford. Luca will also
be writing to you and as soon as we can we will be trying to work
out other possible alternatives there may be and stay in touch with
you.

a

I don't know how many 'blitz’ trips you think I take to Europe:
they have not been that frequent, although since it will now cost
less to fly from New York across the Atlantic than it does to San
Francisco we may even think of doing our skiing in your back door.

Anyhow, I certainly hope there will be some way or another that
we can meet more frequently and we all have the best wishes for you

and Paola.

Yours sincerely,

Enclosure fj