Paul Berg

Affiliations:	1955-1959		Washington University, Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO
	1959-2000	Biochemistry	Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Area:

molecular biology of disease

Website:

http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1980/berg-autobio.html

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Bio:

http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/57784.html
http://www.asbmb.org/uploadedfiles/aboutus/asbmb_history/past_presidents/1970s/1975Berg.html
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/CD/p-nid/257
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/CD/p-nid/258
http://berg-emeritusprofessor.stanford.edu/BergLabAlumni.html
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 was divided, one half awarded to Paul Berg "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA", the other half jointly to Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".

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Parents

Harland G. Wood	grad student	1952	Case Western
(A Study of the Conversion of Formate to Labile Methyl Groups)
Herman M. Kalckar	post-doc	1952-1953	Københavns Universitet
Arthur Kornberg	post-doc	1953-1954	Washington University

Children

Roger D. Kornberg	research assistant		Stanford Medical School
Richard Calendar	grad student		Stanford (Evolution Tree)
Edward James Ofengand	grad student	1959	Washington University
Michael J. Chamberlin	grad student	1963	Stanford
William Bill Barry Wood	grad student	1963	Stanford
William R. Folk	grad student	1971	Stanford
Paul Primakoff	grad student	1972	Stanford
Janet E. Mertz	grad student	1975	Stanford
Stephen Goff	grad student	1978	Stanford
Richard Mulligan	grad student	1981	Stanford
Michael E. Fromm	grad student	1983	Stanford
Juergen Reichardt	grad student	1989	Stanford
Maria Jasin	post-doc		Stanford (Cell Biology Tree)
Wolfgang Joklik	post-doc		Stanford
Uriel Z. Littauer	post-doc		Stanford Medical School
Jack Preiss	post-doc	1959	Washington University
Karl H. Muench	post-doc	1961-1965	Stanford Medical School
Charles Whitacre Hill	post-doc	1968	Stanford
Melvin L. DePamphilis	post-doc	1971-1973	Stanford University Medical School
Thomas E. Shenk	post-doc	1973-1975	Stanford (Cell Biology Tree)
Gilbert Chu	post-doc	1984-1986	Stanford Medical School
Robert F. Margolskee	post-doc	1983-1987
Robert Henry Symons	research scientist	1971	Stanford

Collaborators

Renato Dulbecco

collaborator

Salk Institute

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Baltimore D, Berg P, Botchan M, et al. (2015) Biotechnology. A prudent path forward for genomic engineering and germline gene modification. Science (New York, N.Y.). 348: 36-8
Berg P. (2014) Fred Sanger: a memorial tribute. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111: 883-4
Berg P. (2013) Robert Joy Glaser 11 September 1918 - 7 June 2012. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 157: 465-9
Berg P. (2012) The dual-use conundrum. Science (New York, N.Y.). 337: 1273
Nautiyal S, Carlton VE, Lu Y, et al. (2010) High-throughput method for analyzing methylation of CpGs in targeted genomic regions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 12587-92
Berg P, Mertz JE. (2010) Personal reflections on the origins and emergence of recombinant DNA technology. Genetics. 184: 9-17
Berg P. (2008) Meetings that changed the world: Asilomar 1975: DNA modification secured. Nature. 455: 290-1
Berg P. (2008) Moments of discovery. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 77: 15-44
Berg P, Lehman IR. (2007) Retrospective: Arthur Kornberg (1918-2007). Science (New York, N.Y.). 318: 1564
Berg P. (2006) Origins of the human genome project: why sequence the human genome when 96% of it is junk? American Journal of Human Genetics. 79: 603-5