What's under our tree? A new computer! (Actually, it is on the desk, connected to the router and printer.)
What next? Anti-Fungal golf balls?
Although, the idea of "moistening" the needle gives new meaning to being germ-o-phobic.
FGSC BLOG ARCHIVE
12/29/06
As the year comes to a close, we have a moment to take pause and look back upon what we have accomplished. This year we have set new records for numbers of orders and numbers of strains distributed.
We had 558 orders for a total of 2,483 strains. Of this, 176 were for
Aspergillus strains, 27 were for Fusarium, 30
Gelasinospora (the most
Gelasinospora we have EVER shipped), 71 for Magnaporthe, and 153 for the new
Pichia strains carrying
cell wall degrading enzymes from Aspergillus. Finally, we sent over 1962
Neurospora strains with 1190 being strains from the
KO program. This does not include the over 3,500 strains that were sent out
as
arrayed mutants.
All in all, this was a busy year at the FGSC and we thank you for keeping us in your plans. If you have invoices hanging around, please send in payment. We depend on these payments for all of the materials we use. We also have had some continuing issues with our oldest Fisher Isotemp Laboratory Refrigerator. It holds temperature for about a week then goes bad. Already we have put in a new compressor and filled it with freon twice, but it may need a more significant repair.
| Tonight it is the Winter Solstice. We have decorated a
tree at my home in
recognition that the days will again grow longer. Tomorrow is the first
day of
winter. All of our snow, however, is long gone and it is going to be
a
brown Xmas here in
KC. What's under our tree? A new computer! (Actually, it is on the desk, connected to the router and printer.) |
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Fungal-Phobia has reached new heights here in middle
America. They are marketing Soccer Balls as 'Anti-fungal.' What next? Anti-Fungal golf balls? Although, the idea of "moistening" the needle gives new meaning to being germ-o-phobic. |
Volume Fifty-three of the Fungal Genetics Newsletter is complete and available online. The print edition will be mailed next week.
12/11/06
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Spanning the globe: In recent years the FGSC has sent materials to 46 different countries. Meanwhile, the abstracts for the FGC are piling up. They will be posted online at the FGSC site shortly before the meeting next march. |
12/7/06
| One of the few things that we had left over from the days when the
FGSC was in Humboldt, California
was an old 'Signature' brand refrigerator. Today we replaced it with a
modern refrigerator-only unit. We got it from
Sears and saved over a thousand
dollars. Since we are only going to keep unused agar slants in it, it
ought to serve our needs. We liked it so much that we got two. Unfortunately, in the process of moving things to make room for the new one, an old Fisher Isotemp refrigerator went 'psssssssssst' and we are assuming that meant it was venting its freon. It had been making a lot of noise and had even been visited by a service tech last spring. O'dell is sending our regular guy out to look at it. This particular refrigerator was at the FGSC when I joined in 1995. Maybe Craig remembers how old it is. |
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12/1/06
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