8/25/05

Check the Jobs listing for positions in the Glass Lab at UC Berkeley. The first articles for FGN 52 have been posted on the FGSC web-site.
School has started at UMKC and there are lots of students around. This is quite a change after the long slow summer. UMKC is a very international school and as such has tremendous diversity.

We are about 7 inches (~ 18 cm) more rain than is normal for Kansas City. While my garden appreciates this, it is hard to have a soccer season when every practice is rained out.

8/12/05

The River of Life Farm, outside Dora, Missouri, offers fine camping, canoeing and fishing on the North Fork of the White River.
We are just back from a late-summer trip where the only thing we caught on our hooks was algae. The river is down and were it not for the springs, there would not be enough water to float a canoe. When we went in June, we caught dozens of fish, but mid August is not a good time in the Ozarks.

The FGSC has a new technician. Ms. Rachel Yedlin has joined the FGSC staff. Rachel just finished her BA in Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her most recent project there was to develop a database of all lasers on campus. Rachel has also traveled to Australia and spent a semester at Melbourne University in 2003.

Mrs. Stewart has moved on to pursue her interests in wildlife biology and may take a year off to teach English in China.

The FGSC has obtained a small number of micro-array slides for Neurospora crassa based on the open reading frames identified at the Broad Institute and can offer 8 slides to researchers who have a legitimate use for them at no cost. Additional slides can be obtained by special arrangement with the Neurospora Functional Genomics Program.