JUN 2 6 1962

DEPARTMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
25 SHATTUCK STREET

BOSTON 15, MASSACHUSETTS

June 25, 1962

Prof. J. Lederberg

Dept. of Genetics

Stanford Univ. School of Med.
Palo Alto, Calif.

Dear Prof. Lederberg,

Gus Nossal just passed through Boston on his way to Paris.
In mentioning to him that I hoped to secure a position in Calif~
ornia in 1963, he suggested that I contact you about a possible
position in your department,

Since receiving my Ph. D. with Prof. Coons in 1960, I have
spent almost two years in Dr, Luigi Gorini's laboratory studying
repression in the arginine biosynthetic sequence of E, coli, This
summer, I will be moving to MIT to spend a year with Prof. Luria,
again studying control, but this time worrying more about the
operator than the repressor, JI pursued this line of research in
postdoctoral study because I wanted to learn some genetics, believing
that an understanding of antibody formation will only result as the
genetics and epigenetics of the antibody-producing cell and its
progenitors become known.

I wonder whether your most recent thoughts on antibody formation
are to be published? In particular, would syou revise postulates A6,
A7, and A8 of your original formulation?

I would be glad to furnish any further information about myself
that you might find useful,

Sincerely yours,

Che Streory

Eli Sercarz