An Interview with Susan Gottesman

Susan Gottesman, Head of the Biochemical Genetics Section of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the National Cancer Institute and Editor of the Annual Review of Microbiology, talks to Mia Lobel about her life and career. She describes how her interest in science began when she read the book Microbe Hunters as a teenager and how it grew when she worked in Jim Watson's lab as an undegraduate at Radcliffe College. Dr. Gottesman made major contributions to the field of prokaryotic gene regulation, most notably with her research on E. coli. (Posted on November 3, 2008)