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Eva Hansen-Melander and the circulation of knowledge within the cancer chromosome network

Tunlid, Anna LU (2018) The European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference
Abstract
In 1953 Eva Hansen-Melander was appointed as a scientific assistant at the newly founded Cancer chromosome laboratory at Lund University, Sweden. The lab was set up by the cytologist Albert Levan, who started his career as a botanist studying Allium chromosomes but in the early 1950s changed his research focus to the studies of chromosomes in cancer cells. Levan developed close collaborations with cancer cytogeneticists in the US, among them Theodore Hauschka in Philadelphia. Besides that, he continued his partnership with the cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio, from Zaragoza (Spain), who regularly spent periods of time at the Cancer laboratory in Lund. In the presentation, I will discuss the central role of Eva Hansen-Melander at the laboratory... (More)
In 1953 Eva Hansen-Melander was appointed as a scientific assistant at the newly founded Cancer chromosome laboratory at Lund University, Sweden. The lab was set up by the cytologist Albert Levan, who started his career as a botanist studying Allium chromosomes but in the early 1950s changed his research focus to the studies of chromosomes in cancer cells. Levan developed close collaborations with cancer cytogeneticists in the US, among them Theodore Hauschka in Philadelphia. Besides that, he continued his partnership with the cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio, from Zaragoza (Spain), who regularly spent periods of time at the Cancer laboratory in Lund. In the presentation, I will discuss the central role of Eva Hansen-Melander at the laboratory in Lund during the 1950s. As a key person at the lab in Lund, she was part of the circulation of knowledge, materials and technical skills between Lund, Philadelphia, and Zaragoza. She had the main responsibility for the daily work of the laboratory,
ranging from administrative duties to care for the breeding of the experimental animals. In addition, she conducted independent cytogenetic work on animal and human chromosomes, and she visited other laboratories in Sweden and in Europe to learn new techniques. During Levan’s extended visits abroad she took the full responsibility for the lab. She represented, I would argue, the kind of continuity of a laboratory that was extremely important in the circulation of knowledge within the early cancer chromosome network. (Less)
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  abstract     = {{In 1953 Eva Hansen-Melander was appointed as a scientific assistant at the newly founded Cancer chromosome laboratory at Lund University, Sweden. The lab was set up by the cytologist Albert Levan, who started his career as a botanist studying Allium chromosomes but in the early 1950s changed his research focus to the studies of chromosomes in cancer cells. Levan developed close collaborations with cancer cytogeneticists in the US, among them Theodore Hauschka in Philadelphia. Besides that, he continued his partnership with the cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio, from Zaragoza (Spain), who regularly spent periods of time at the Cancer laboratory in Lund. In the presentation, I will discuss the central role of Eva Hansen-Melander at the laboratory in Lund during the 1950s. As a key person at the lab in Lund, she was part of the circulation of knowledge, materials and technical skills between Lund, Philadelphia, and Zaragoza. She had the main responsibility for the daily work of the laboratory,<br/>ranging from administrative duties to care for the breeding of the experimental animals. In addition, she conducted independent cytogenetic work on animal and human chromosomes, and she visited other laboratories in Sweden and in Europe to learn new techniques. During Levan’s extended visits abroad she took the full responsibility for the lab. She represented, I would argue, the kind of continuity of a laboratory that was extremely important in the circulation of knowledge within the early cancer chromosome network.}},
  author       = {{Tunlid, Anna}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  title        = {{Eva Hansen-Melander and the circulation of knowledge within the cancer chromosome network}},
  url          = {{http://www.eshs.org/IMG/pdf/eshs-programme-2018-full.pdf}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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