| Today is a DARK DAY at the FGSC. It is Ms. Sheera Walker's last day.
Sheera has been with the FGSC for over 8 years and we have come to depend on her organizational skills, her careful bench work, and her pleasant demeanor. Sheera has taken a position with a clinical testing lab where she will have more opportunity to advance her career (and her salary). Please join me in wishing Sheera all the best in her future endeavors. |
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In other news, I finally got around to setting up a wikipedia page for the FGSC.
I have just returned from Stanford where I helped prepare materials to be shipped to the FGSC. Among them are silica gel stocks from David Perkins' lab as well as frozen stocks of many strains. The former are well cataloged while the latter are not. The Perkins lab held a wealth of resources beyond the strains, however. We do not have space to house all of the books, unpublished theses and reprints that David Perkins collected over the years. The bound Tatum reprint collection will go to the Editor of the FGN (The FGSC holds a duplicate set of these reprints).
It was interesting to see what has been maintained, both in the Perkins lab and in the adjacent Yanofsky lab. While removing materials from a walk-in -20 freezer, I noticed what appeared to be cosmid pools from the original Volmer pSV50 cosmid library. These are presumably what had been used to clone by sib selection in the late 1980's and early 1990's. There was a lot of old historical material like this including the original wax-paper envelopes David Perkins used to send strains back from his collecting trips.
5/9/07
Thanks to everyone who inquired about our status. The FGSC sits atop a 5 story building, on a hill overlooking Brush Creek in Kansas City, Missouri. We are a couple of miles from the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. There was some local flooding, but it all drained away in a few hours.
| For those who may have wondered, I did finally sell my handsome 1986
Toyota Landcruiser. I sold it on e-bay and got about 15% more than I was asking locally! I really hated to do it, but even the money I received for it would not have been enough to fix it up. |
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5/4/07
The internet gives many opportunities to validate what we do. Remember to
cite
the FGSC.
