A Book is Born
JAX® NOTES Issue 514, Summer 2009
At first glance, it's an unlikely combination: a world-renowned embryologist from Edinburgh, Scotland; a professor working to establish a mouse cancer and stem cell program at Cornell University in New York; and a professor specializing in dermatopathology and general mouse pathology at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. It all started when Dr. Sundberg, at The Jackson Laboratory, was applying for a grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to help support an annual meeting called Pathology of Mouse Models for Human Diseases, the 8th iteration of which will be held at JAX in September. He received a call from Dr. Nikitin at Cornell. Dr. Nikitin was establishing a mouse cancer program and asked Professor Sundberg to speak at Cornell's School of Veterinary Medicine. Professor Sundberg agreed and ended up recruiting Dr. Nikitin to the team that plans this annual meeting. They invited Dr. Matthew Kaufman, from Scotland, to be a speaker in the meeting because he was without question the best known person in the field of mouse embryology and pioneered the technology for culturing embryonic stem cells. Dr. Kaufman was so good that he has been invited every year since. As a stipulation for renewing the grant for the annual meeting, NCRR required that the meeting's organizers and faculty publish some papers and possibly a book together. It just so happened that when Dr. Kaufman was recruited, he was near retirement and looking for help with a book project that would incorporate his expert historical understanding of anatomy and development and his valuable collection of mouse embryo slides. Serendipitously, Dr. Sundberg had publishing experience as a series editor for CRC Press, and Dr. Nikitin was an expert on the endocrine system and had access to and knew how to use the Aperio slide imaging system. The three scientists combined their talents, and the end result, "Histologic basis of mouse endocrine system development: a comparative analysis", will be a valuable resource for years to come.
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