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Coordinating the program for the Fungal Genetics Conference is a
challenging and rewarding task. I get to interact with a large number of
people in a variety of capacities. This is, of course, a good thing. Today one of my colleagues called to check on the progress of the program. They apologized that they had not answered my e-mails and explained that they were calling from a SKI LIFT. I would like to be on a ski lift right now, too. |
| Over the nearly 50 years of his support for the FGSC, David Perkins deposited many strains. This graph shows the number of strains deposited each year from 1960 to 2003. The number of strains deposited by members of David Perkins' academic family continues this pattern. |
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2/16/07
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When I first considered the FGSC job, I asked Jak Kinsey what the
winters were like in Kansas City. He
said "the grass is brown, the sky is grey and it is 20 F." That mostly
describes our situation. This week, however, we have more snow than
usual. Since it has been extra cold, the
snow has actually
lasted. Maybe last night was the coldest night of the year. It was 5F
this morning (like -15 C). Brrrrrrr. There was ice on the insides of some windows at home. Good thing we got a new furnace when we moved in. |
2/2/07
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In the 1969 movie
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch asks "Who ARE those
guys?"
I thought of this when I found the
FungiKB at the
University of Delaware.
Carl Schmidt
there had a
grant to develop a database for storing EST data. They work with the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics Fungal Genomics Project at Concordia University in beautiful Montreal, Canada |