Site Map for The Stadtman Way; A Tale of Two Biochemists at NIH

  1. Introduction
  2. Early Education
    1. Thressa Campbell
    2. Earl Stadtman
  3. At Berkeley
    1. Marriage and Wartime Research
    2. The Heritage of the "Delft School" of Microbiology
  4. Why NIH?
    1. The Anti-Nepotism Rules
    2. Married Couples in Science at NIH
    3. Building 3 Biochemists
  5. "Follow Your Nose!"
    1. Thressa Stadtman's Research
      1. How Does Vitamin B12 Function?
      2. Pioneer of Selenium Biochemistry
    2. Earl Stadtman's Research
      1. How Are Fatty Acids Made?
      2. How to Control the Production of Amino Acids?
      3. What is Aging?
    3. Summary of the Stadtmans' Research

  6. Laboratory Settings
    1. Anaerobic Laboratory-An NIH First
    2. Fermenter Room
    3. Warburg Apparatus
    4. Micro-Combustion Furnace
    5. Amino Acid/Peptide Analyzer
    6. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR)
    7. Spectrophotometer and High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
  7. "Teachers Live in Eternity"
    1. Mentoring at NIH
    2. Group Photos
  8. Other features
    1. Chronology: "Making Biochemists Par Excellence"
    2. Slide Show: "Life of a Beleaguered Chemist"
    3. Video: "Building 3 in Historical Perspective: Scientists and Their Laboratories"
    4. Video Clip Collection
      1. Earl Stadtman on how he became a biochemist
      2. Earl Stadtman on biochemists in Building 3 at NIH
      3. Thressa Stadtman on selenium biochemistry
      4. Boon Chock on glutamine synthetase
      5. Rodney Levine on protein oxidation and aging
      6. Michael Poston on the anaerobic laboratory
      7. Moon Bin Yim on EPR
      8. Barbara Berlett on 500-liter fermenter
      9. Barbara Berlett on spectrophotometer, HPLC, and other instruments
  9. Glossary
  10. Biographical Sketches
    1. Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer
    2. Ames, Bruce N.
    3. Barker, Horace Albert
    4. Beijerinck, Martinus W.
    5. Berzelius, Jöns Jacob
    6. Brown, Michael Stuart
    7. Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot
    8. Kluyver, Albert Jan
    9. Lipmann, Fritz Albert
    10. Lynen, Feodor
    11. Nirenberg, Marshall
    12. Prusiner, Stanley B.
    13. Stetten, DeWitt, Jr.
    14. Vagelos, P. Roy
    15. Van Niel, Cornelis Bernardus Kees
    16. Warburg, Otto Heinrich
    17. Winogradsky, Sergey Nikolaevicht
  11. References
  12. Acknowledgments