Announcement Archive -pre 2007

The FGSC advisory board met in Kansas City and is pleased to announce the establishment of the FGSC Endowment fund at the Genetics Society of America.

The FGSC has established an endowment fund to provide a basis for enabling long term support of the FGSC.
An endowment fund is being managed by the Genetics Society of America and is called The FGSC Endowment at the GSA.
Capital may be added to this endowment by the FGSC or by the community.
The initial funds for the endowment came from user-fee proceeds that had been held in reserve at KUMC as FGSC emergency funds.
The endowment money will still be available for this purpose, if necessary, although its long term goal is directed to helping achieve financial sustainability for the FGSC.

As part of the Neurospora Functional Genomics Program the FGSC has been preparing KO mutants for distribution. They are available singly or Arrayed in 96- well plates.

We have 8 plates of mutants available within the US as frozen spores in glycerol and to foreign destinations as spores spotted on filter paper disks in 96-well plates.
We are asking $100 per plate plus shipping with a cap of $3000 for people who want the entire set.

The first paper describing the KOs is online now

News from the American Association for the Advancement of Science includes the naming of 13 fungal geneticists as fellows. This is a great thing for fungal genetics. The honorees are: Arturo Casadevall, Aaron Mitchell, Louise Glass, Jim Haber, Phil Hieter, Nancy Keller, Tom Petes, Pat Pukkila, Eric Selker, Fred Sherman, David Soll, Kevin Struhl, and Margaret Werner-Washburne.

The FGSC will be passing the 50 year mark in 2010 and it is not too early to begin thinking about collecting materials to document the effort of all the dedicated scientists who have made the FGSC into what is now. Please let us know if you have any photos, essays, recollections