Helen Muller, University of New Mexico
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Thursday, December 9, 2021 10:30 am EST
Library & Archives and the Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory presents:
Revisiting H.J. Muller in Russia, a talk by Sydney Brenner Research Fellow Helen Muller (PhD, MPH, Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico)
December 9, 2021 at 10:30 am EST
Please join us for a talk by Helen Muller, daughter of H. J. Muller, Nobel Prize Laureate.
In 1922, H.J. Muller first travelled to the Soviet Union. Excited to meet geneticists, he carried his experimental files across the Atlantic. Then in the 1930s, he spent 4 years working with Soviet plant geneticist Nicolai Vavilov, among others.
Sydney Brenner Research Fellow Helen Muller will present findings from her recent travels to Russia, where she did research to discover the man behind the science, his humanitarian actions and “genetic” offspring, and how regime change has elevated Muller’s colleague Vavilov to ‘hero' status.
Register to obtain meeting code for webinar at:
bit.ly/mullerinrussia