Suzanne Bourgeois Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2024
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Business Number: 858-534-2533
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Suzanne Bourgeois Papers
Creator:
Bourgeois, Suzanne, 1931-
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0845
Physical Description:
12.4 Linear feet
(31 archives boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1949-2019
Abstract: Papers of geneticist Suzanne Bourgeois, containing a selection of her lab notebooks and binders, correspondence, and historical
research on the founding of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Languages:
English
.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection documents the professional work of Bourgeois and her lab staff in genetic research, along with her correspondence
and historical research into the early Salk Institute. Much of her laboratory work at Pasteur and Salk was stored in binders
containing data, charts, illustrations, notes on discussions and lectures, and lists of chemicals. The collection also contains
original documents pertaining to the early years of the Salk Institute, such as reports, newsletters, memos, committee minutes,
and seminar notes from the 1960s and 1970s that had been stored in various filing cabinets around the Salk campus and compiled
by Bourgeois for her book. A small selection of material in this collection consists of material reproduced for Bourgeois
from the Archives of the Institute Pasteur, from the fonds Cohn and fonds Monod.
Arranged in eight series: 1) MISCELLANEOUS; 2) SALK INSTITUTE RECORDS; 3) RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE; 4)
RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE SALK INSTITUTE; 5) WRITINGS AND TALKS; 6) GENESIS OF THE SALK INSTITUTE; 7) CORRESPONDENCE; 8) MEL
COHN MATERIALS.
Biography
Suzanne Bourgeois was a micro-biologist and geneticist who researched the regulation of gene expression and authored a book
on the founding of the Salk Institute,
Genesis of the Salk Institute (UC Press, 2013). She began her research career in the 1950s at the University of Paris/Sorbonne and the Institut Pasteur
in Paris, France under the supervision of Jacques Monod. In 1963 she moved her lab to La Jolla along with her husband Melvin
Cohn, another scientist at the Institute Pasteur and Founding Fellow of the Salk Institute. After a 40-year research career,
Bourgeois transitioned to public presentations on the state of cancer research and the history of the Salk Institute.
Preferred Citation
Suzanne Bourgeois Papers. MSS 845. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 2022
OFF-SITE STORAGE
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gene expression -- Research
Women geneticists -- California -- San Diego
Genetic regulation -- Research
Bourgeois, Suzanne, 1931-
Salk Institute for Biological Studies -- History
MISCELLANEOUS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 1) MISCELLANEOUS contains biographical files and photographs of Bourgeois.
Box 1, Folder 2
Bourgeois dossier file
ca. 1965
General note
Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.
Box 1, Folder 3
National Academy of Sciences nomination process
1986
Box 1, Folder 5
La Jolla Historical Society silent auction - Correspondence, program, photographs, and newspaper clippings
2013
General note
Bourgeois donated her book
Genesis of the Salk Institute and attended the auction.
SALK INSTITUTE RECORDS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 2) SALK INSTITUTE RECORDS contains reports, newsletters, memos, committee minutes, seminar notes, and staff lists.
Some materials belonged to Bourgeois, other had been stored in various filing cabinets around the Salk campus and were collected
in the course of her research for
Genesis.
Box 1, Folder 6
Jacques Monod manuscripts and notes
ca. 1965
Box 1, Folder 7
Jacques Monod meetings and correspondence
1961-1973
General note
Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.
Box 1, Folder 8
Salk Institute architecture and facilities booklet
1964
Box 1, Folder 9
Salk Institute organizational charts
1964-2005
Box 1, Folder 10
Jonas Salk memos
1966-1967
Box 1, Folder 11
Plan for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, with appendix of past and present work of fellows
1967
Box 1, Folder 12
The Salk Institute: 1968-1969 Current and Projected Activities
1969
Box 1, Folder 13
Conference on chemical and biological warfare
1969
General note
Letter to Henry Kissinger from J.E. Slater and members of the Salk Institute-American Academy Conference on Chemical and Biological
Warfare.
Box 1, Folder 14-15
Joint committee on Renaissance Studies, UCSD and the Salk Institute
1969
Box 2, Folder 1
Notes distributed at lectures on the nervous system
1969
Box 2, Folder 2
Workshop on problems of drugs and drug addiction
1969
Box 31, Folder 1
John Hunt writings and correspondence
1970-1973
General note
Includes information about the Fondation Royaumont and CIEBAF (Centre international d'études bioanthropologiques et d'anthropologie
fondamentale / International center for the study of bioanthropology and fundamental anthropology).
Box 2, Folder 3
Board of trustees
1970-1974
Box 2, Folder 4-10
Committee memos and newsletters
1970-1977
General note
Bourgeois was a member of the Operating Committee and Senior Faculty Committee.
Box 2, Folder 11
Central influences on American life seminar
1971
Box 2, Folder 12
Annual Report of the Director to the Fellows
1971-2
Box 2, Folder 13
Annual Report of the Director to the Board of Trustees
1971, 1973-4
Box 3, Folder 1
Annual Report of the Director to the Fellows
1974-5
Box 3, Folder 2-6
Annual fellows meeting
1974-1978
Box 3, Folder 8
Annual board of trustees meeting
1975
Box 3, Folder 10
Precis on science and human values
1976
Box 4, Folder 1-2
Report on laboratory staffing and publications
1976-1978
Box 4, Folder 3
Jonas Salk Foundation
1984
Box 4, Folder 4
Memos announcing Jonas Salk's death and ceremony
1995-1996
Box 4, Folder 6
Memos and notes
2005-2007
Box 4, Folder 7
Alumni from the Bourgeois and Cohn labs
2010
Box 4, Folder 9
Salk Institute communications department
2013
RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 3) RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE contains lab research notes and fundraising materials from the Pasteur
Institute.
Box 4, Folder 10
Carbon dioxide and bacterial growth
1955
General note
Includes Bourgeois' thesis "Le role de l'anhydride caronique dans les croissances bacteriennes."
Box 4, Folder 11
Bacterial cellwall membranes
1957-1962
Box 4, Folder 12
Regulation generalities
1959-1963
Box 5, Folder 1
Microbial structure
1959-1968
Box 5, Folder 2
Jacques Oudin manuscripts
1960
Box 5, Folder 4
Lac operon
1961-1998
General note
Includes 2 glass plate photographs, 3 x 5 in.
Box 5, Folder 5-7
Binders 1-2: Cellular biochemistry
1962-1963
Box 5, Folder 8-9
DNA replication binder
1966 October
General note
Also labelled: "Revolution culterelle."
Box 6, Folder 1
Notes with Jacques Monod
1964-1969
Box 6, Folder 2
Pasteur Foundation giving
2007-2013
RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE SALK INSTITUTE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 4) RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE SALK INSTITUTE contains lab records and research notes by Bourgeois and her lab employees.
Series is divided into four subseries: A) Lab Research Binders; B) Lab Staff Research Binders; C) Research; D) Lab Chemical
Inventories Lists.
Box 6, Folder 3-4
Binder 3: La Jolla 1
1963-1964
Box 6, Folder 5-6
Binder 4: La Jolla 2
1964
Box 6, Folder 7
Binder 5: La Jolla 3
1964
Box 7, Folder 1
Binder 5: La Jolla 3
1964
Box 7, Folder 2-3
Binder 6: La Jolla 4
1964-1965
Box 7, Folder 4-6
Binder 7: La Jolla 5
1965-1966
Box 7, Folder 7
Binder 9: La Jolla 7, complementation and mapping
1965-1966
Box 8, Folder 1-2
Binder 8: La Jolla 6
1965-1966
Box 8, Folder 5
Binder 11: projects, discussions
1962-1966
Box 8, Folder 6
Binder 12: operator constitutive
1966
Box 8, Folder 7
Binder 13: lectures and seminars
1964-1967
Box 9, Folder 1-3
R (resistance) genes
1966-1971
Box 9, Folder 6-7
Lac, super O, R-O assays, R-Z chimera
1969-1977
Box 10, Folder 1
Lac, super O, R-O assays, R-Z chimera
1969-1977
Box 10, Folder 2-3
Notes, technics, cell lines, RNA viruses, transfers and experiment
1973-1982
Box 11, Folder 1
Amino acids and Lac operon
1975-1976
Box 11, Folder 2
Viral RNA purification
1979
Box 11, Folder 3-5
RNA extraction and nick translation
1979-1980
Box 12, Folder 3-4
RBIO Techniques, Plasmids 1987
1987
Box 12, Folder 6
CD18 cDNA sequencing lab notebook
1991
Box 13, Folder 1
CD18 cDNA sequencing lab notebook
1991
Lab Staff Research Binders
Box 13, Folder 5
Donald Gruol, cancer lab
1979-1981
Box 14, Folder 3-4
Denise Marie Johnson, MS23
1982-1988
Box 14, Folder 5
Denise Johnson, MS23
1983
Box 14, Folder 6
Denise Johnson, puromycin uptake, colchicine and dex selection, S7CDS-5 dose responses
1983
Box 15, Folder 1
Denise Johnson, puromycin uptake, colchicine and dex selection, S7CDS-5 dose responses
1983
Box 15, Folder 2-4
Denise Johnson, nuclear transfer, cytosols, scatchards, dex uptakes
1983
Box 15, Folder 5-7
Doug Dean, fibronectin
1984-1988
Box 16, Folder 1-4
Allen Koop, plasmids
1984-1994
Box 16, Folder 5-6
Maureen T. Harrigan
1987-1990
Box 17, Folder 1-4
Lois Chandler (includes cell lines, plasmids)
1987-1993
Box 17, Folder 7
Gail Baughman, TCL-30, materials transferred
1988-1996
Box 18, Folder 1-2
Gail Baughman, TCL-30, materials transferred
1988-1996
Box 18, Folder 3
Claude Ehretsmann plasmids, cells notes
1993-1994
Box 18, Folder 4
Hur-Song Chang lab notes
1993-1996
Box 18, Folder 7
Fellows antibody workshop
1965
Box 18, Folder 9
Arabinose operon
1966-1967
Lab Chemical Inventories and Lists
Box 19, Folder 1
List of chemicals in freezer, tests of requirements of strains
1966
Box 19, Folder 2
Record of materials sent out of lab
1971-1978
Box 19, Folder 3
Compound distribution record
1978-1988
Box 19, Folder 4
Log of compounds received in the neuroendocrinology laboratories
1978-1988
Box 19, Folder 5
Compound distribution record for GRF
1982-1988
Box 20, Folder 1-2
Liquid nitrogen freezer log
1983-1994
Box 20, Folder 3
Revco freezer log 1986-1997
1986-1997
Box 20, Folder 4-6
Materials transferred: FN clones and Cell lines 1987-1995 (3 folders)
1987-1995
WRITINGS AND TALKS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 5) WRITINGS AND TALKS contains manuscript drafts and slides of Bourgeois' work, mostly from after her late-career transition
to public science and historical research.
Box 20, Folder 7
Manuscripts on cysteine and methionine
1959
Box 21, Folder 1
"What everyone should know about cancer"
ca. 2000
Box 21, Folder 2
Book review of "Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio" by Jeffrey Kluger
2005
Box 21, Folder 3
"An experiment in symbiosis" in the 1960s: Arts at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
2005
Box 21, Folder 4
Interview for Inside Salk with Gina Kirchweger
2008
General note
Includes portrait photographs of Bourgeois.
Box 21, Folder 5
Interview for Scientific Report
2008
Box 21, Folder 6
La Jolla Historical Society, "The emergence of pioneering scientific institutions in La Jolla"
2009
Box 21, Folder 7
Salk Institute faculty lecture, "The genesis of the Salk Institute"
2009
Box 21, Folder 8
PI's & their passions: "From cannon batteries to biological studies: the untold history of the Salk Institute"
2009
Box 21, Folder 9
PI's & their passions: "A look inside the book"
2013
Box 21, Folder 10
Biographical essay on Francois Jacob for the American Philosophical Society
2013
Box 21, Folder 11
San Diego Union Tribune (U-T San Diego) interview
2013
Box 21, Folder 12
KPBS midday and evening editions
2014
Box 21, Folder 13
Back to basics lecture
2014
Box 21, Folder 14
Salk Science at the Seaside Symposium, "A History of Science at Salk"
2014
Box 21, Folder 15
Book review for Isis of "Jonas Salk: a life" by Charlotte Degroes Jacobs
2015
Box 21, Folder 16
"Genesis of the Salk Institute: The role of Jewish immigrants" at the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture
2015
Box 21, Folder 17
San Diego History Center
2015
Box 22, Folder 1
Reminiscences of Manfred Eigen
2017
Box 22, Folder 2
La Jolla Immunology Conference
2017-2019
GENESIS OF THE SALK INSTITUTE (2013)
Scope and Content of Series
Series 6) GENESIS OF THE SALK INSTITUTE contains manuscript drafts, publisher correspondence, and research files related to
her book, which include archives, email correspondence, interview questions and transcripts. Arranged into three sub-series:
A) Publishing & Administrative Work; B) Manuscript Drafts; and C) Research Notes.
Publishing & Administrative Work
Box 22, Folder 3
Proposal to the Salk Institute
2004
Box 22, Folder 4
Jonas Salk collection archives access
2005
Box 22, Folder 5
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborative research grant applications
2005-2006
Box 22, Folder 6
Salk Institute archives access
2005-2008
Box 22, Folder 7
La Jolla Historical Society and Ray Thomas Edwards Foundation grant
2009
Box 22, Folder 8
Publisher search correspondence
2009-2012
Box 22, Folder 9
Memorandum of Agreement with University of California Press
2010
Box 22, Folder 10
Correspondence with University of California Press, general
2010-2015
Box 22, Folder 11
University of California Press peer reviews
2012
Box 22, Folder 12
Patricia Howard editing consult
2011-2012
Box 22, Folder 13
University of California Press author questionnaires
2013
Box 23, Folder 2
Correspondence with University of California Press, cover jacket
2013
Box 23, Folder 3
Correspondence with University of California Press, indexing
2013
Box 23, Folder 5-20
Chapter notes
2005-2012
General note
Contains handwritten notes and manuscript page edits.
Box 23, Folder 22
Salk Institute timelines
2006
Box 24, Folder 1
Genesis of the Salk Institute reviews
2013-2014
Box 24, Folder 2-3
Elena Aranova archives notes
2005-2007
Box 24, Folder 4
Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO) archives notes
2006
Box 24, Folder 5
Sandi Hendrickson notes on Salk Board of Trustees
2006
Box 24, Folder 6
1965 antibody workshop
ca. 2000
Box 24, Folder 7
Architecture on Salk campus
2008-2009
Box 24, Folder 10
Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima
2008-2012
Box 24, Folder 11
Harry Boardman and the Council for Biology in Human Affairs
2005
Box 24, Folder 13
Jacob and Rita Bronowski
2010
Box 24, Folder 14
Soraya de Chadarevian interview with Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel
1997
General note
Francis Crick in conversation with Leslie Orgel and Soraya de Chadarevian, at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory
of Molecular Biology, 1997 October 14. Trascribed from the Francis Crick papers (MSS660) at UCSD, available for request to
listen
here.
Box 24, Folder 15
City of Hope hospitals
ca. 2000
Box 24, Folder 16
Council for Biology in Human Affairs
2006
Box 25, Folder 1
Renato and Maureen Dulbecco
2007-2008
Box 25, Folder 4
Lorraine Friedman
2005-2010
Box 25, Folder 5
General Atomics
2005-2007
Box 25, Folder 6
Francoise Gilot
1996-2013
Box 25, Folder 16
La Jolla Immunology conferences
2009
Box 25, Folder 24
Alwin Pappenheimer
ca. 2000
Box 26, Folder 1
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
2006
Box 26, Folder 5
Salk Institute Biotechnology Industrial Associates Inc. (SIBIA)
2008
Box 26, Folder 8
Arthur Silverstein
2010-2012
Box 26, Folder 9
Sociologists at Salk (Robert Merton and Bruno Latour)
2005
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 7) CORRESPONDENCE contains Bourgeois' letters and emails. Series is organized as it was received by the library, in
parts arranged by single correspondent folders, some chronological folders, and some alphabetical folders. Arranged into two
subseries: A) Correspondent Files; and B) Alphabetic & Chronological Files.
Box 26, Folder 15
Salk Institute offer letter
1963
Box 26, Folder 16
Claude Burstein
1963-1965
Box 26, Folder 19
Monod - Bourgeois
1969-1971
General note
Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.
Box 26, Folder 20
Hildegard Geyer
1976-1977
Box 26, Folder 24
Martin Rosenberg
1982-1983
Box 26, Folder 26
Madeleine Brunerie
2004
General note
Regarding access to the Archives Institut de Pasteur.
Box 26, Folder 28
Francoise Gilot-Salk
2009-2013
Box 27, Folder 1
Correspondence from "Genesis of the Salk Institute" readers
2013
Alphabetic & Chronological Files
Box 27, Folder 4-10
Alphabetical A-G
ca. 1960-1990
MEL COHN MATERIALS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 8) MELVIN COHN MATERIALS contains documents and records pertaining to Melvin Cohn, including biographical information,
manuscripts, notes, and correspondence, part of which has been reproduced from the Archives of the Institute Pasteur.
Box 29, Folder 6
Melvin Cohn dossier file
ca. 1965
General note
Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.
Box 29, Folder 7
Melvin Cohn biographical and CV file
1964-2017
Box 29, Folder 8
Melvin Cohn research and notes
1963-2018
Box 29, Folder 9
Melvin Cohn early publications
1951
Box 29, Folder 10
Melvin Cohn UCLA lecture
1964
Box 29, Folder 11
Structure and Synthesis of Antibodies summer session, Villa Falconieri, Frascati, Rome
1966
Box 29, Folder 12
Melvin Cohn - James Barnett
2003-2017
Box 29, Folder 13
Cohn reprint collection overview
2005
Box 29, Folder 14
Inventaire de fonds d'archives Melvin Cohn, Institut Pasteur Service des Archives
1999
Box 29, Folder 15
Jacques Monod - Melvin Cohn inventory
1949-1974
General note
Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.
Box 30, Folder 1-4
Jacques Monod - Melvin Cohn, correspondence
1949-1974
General note
Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.
Box 30, Folder 5-6
Jacques Monod - Melvin Cohn, correspondence
1950-1970
General note
Reproduced from the Fonds Cohn, Archives Institut de Pasteur.
Box 31, Folder 2
Jacques Monod - Melvin Cohn, personal
1957-1965
General note
Reproduced from the Fonds Monod, Archives Institut de Pasteur.
Box 31, Folder 3-4
Jacques Monod - Melvin Cohn, originals
1957-1961
