Correspondence with Jonathan Knowles

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1255/2/13
• Dates of Creation:1969-1980
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 folder

• Scope and Content

  The correspondence chiefly concerns Knowles' arrival at Beale's laboratory, the awarding of his PhD, his research at the Institute of Animal Genetics and his later work in France and Finland.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Jonathan Knowles joined Beale's laboratory in 1970 on a Medical Research Centre scholarship for Training and Research Methods. He remained for the next five years and developed techniques for micro-injections of mitochondria into living paramecia. Beale and Knowles also collaborated on a book, Extranuclear Genetics, published by Edward Arnold in 1978.

• Subjects

  Paramecium

• Personal Names

  Knowles, Jonathan K.C., 1947-: (scientist)

• Corporate Names

  University of Edinburgh, Institute of Animal Genetics, Protozoan Genetics Unit (1963-1993)