Finding Aids to Archival Collections

The Research File and Notes series mainly documents Blackburn's interests in telomere research. The research notes, ideas, and background material grouping comprises well over one half of the series and includes collected notes, research ideas, reports, and journal articles. Most of the topics relate to telomeres, telomerase, Tetrahymena, and yeast. The Research File and Notes series includes handwritten notes by Blackburn that she took while attending scientific conferences and meetings and notes and notebooks documenting her meetings with her students and technicians pertaining to discussions about their laboratory experiments. Also present are files chronicling her collaboration with various students, postdoctoral researchers, and scientists in both analog and digital files. The digital files primarily feature the research of students and postdoctoral fellows who worked in Blackburn's laboratory at the University of California at San Francisco. The digital files include some personal material of the fellows such as job searches and travel. The Research File and Notes series complements other series in the collection, particularly the Laboratory Notebooks series, Writings File, Speech File, and grant files located in the Administrative File. Digital content is also included in some of the collaboration files and conference and meeting notes.


Material types include correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, programs, charts, photographs, clippings, articles, digital files, clippings, and printed matter.