MAR 2 2 1963 BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, Inc. UPTON, L.1., N.Y. REFER: TEL. YAPHANK 4-6262 DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY March 21, 1963. Professor Joshua Lederberg, Dept. of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, Dear Lederberg: A small conference of interested bacterial geneticists will be held at Cold Spring Harbor on June 11 and 12th, during the Symposium (June 7-13), The purpose of the meeting will be to go over the draft of the "Proposal for a uniform nomenclature in bacterial genetics" and to prepare it for publication, The organizers of the conference (Adelberg, Hartman and myself) would like you or a person from your group designated by you to attend, Funds are available for traven expenses (tourist class jet, and $12.- per diem during the period of conference). The title of this years Symposium is “Synthesis and structure of macromolecules", It will include topics of interest to microbial geneticists; Anumber of them from U.S. and abroad will be present, and thus available for our conference, *« I sincerely hope that you will be in a positionto join us. With best regards, Sincerely yours, (EE Libel M, Demerec MD/ar J Mee Bey pod wel, brrdlicle, fi A i .