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The Early Days of Biotech on Long Island

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The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives would like to thank our interviewees, presented here in alphabetical order with their current positions where applicable.

Pamela Ancona, Head of Intellectual Property at Roche Molecular Labs

Steve Blose, Chief Business Officer, Lumiphore

Diane Fabel, Director of Operations, SUNY Stony Brook Center for Biotechnology 

Bob Franza, M.D., Co-Founder DPI.systems, Affiliate Professor of Bioengineering, School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Washington

Jim Garrels, CEO at Garbrook Knowledge Resources

Jim Hayward, Chairman, President and CEO of Applied DNA Sciences

Ginny Llobell, Former Assistant and Acting Director of the Center for Biotechnology at Stony Brook

Glenn Prestwich, President, Clear Solutions Biomedical LLC

Tim Tully, Professor of Systems Neuroscience, Emeritus, The National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan

Dan Yarosh, Independent Technology Advisor for Cosmetics, Dermatology and Biotech

Jerry Yin, Professor, Laboratory of Genetics and Neurology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chris Hubert and Graham Wildt of CSHL’s Environment, Health and Safety department provided background info on biology research waste disposal.

Last but certainly not least, we would like to thank the Gardiner Foundation for their generous support of this project.

Plants need nitrogen to grow, but a significant portion of the nitrogen in fertilizers is not absorbed by the soil or used by the growing plants. Rather, it washes away into waterways, rivers, and the ocean. This in turn has had devastating effects on marine life. In some areas, excessive nitrogen in the oceans has caused algae blooms that kill wildlife, make it dangerous for people to consume fish or shellfish or in some cases even swim in affected waters. This problem isn’t limited to poorer countries. Nitrogen pollution is a serious problem here on Long Island. In our case, the nitrogen comes primarily from septic tanks and cesspools, although nitrogen from agricultural fertilizers also plays a role. Nitrogen pollution in the waters around Long Island has hampered fishing, made it dangerous to eat seafood from some areas, and caused environmental changes that make coastal areas more prone to flooding.