From asajjad from umich.edu Thu Mar 5 13:27:45 2009 From: asajjad from umich.edu (Ayesha Sajjad) Date: Fri Mar 6 08:49:57 2009 Subject: [Drosophila] Flybase questions Message-ID: <20090305132745.41351grp1h6pltj4@web.mail.umich.edu> I am undergraduate research student at the University of Michigan and I am new to the flybase. I am trying to find the target genes of transcription factor SIP1. I have the sequences for the binding sites, but I am not sure how to search for the genes on the flybase site. If I could get directions of this procedure I would really appreciate the help. Thank You for the time and consideration. Sincerely, Ayesha Sajjad From nfuse from gcoe.biol.sci.kyoto-u.ac.jp Fri Mar 6 02:31:51 2009 From: nfuse from gcoe.biol.sci.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Naoyuki Fuse) Date: Fri Mar 6 08:50:45 2009 Subject: [Drosophila] I am looking for Tokyo strain Message-ID: Dear all, I am looking for a Drosophila melanogaster strain called as "Tokyo". Does anyone maintain Tokyo strain? I got an interesting line derived from Tokyo strain and would like to get the original strain. I found some old papers describing Tokyo strain but I could not contact with the authors. If you maintain Tokyo strain or if you know any information about it, please let me know. Thank you in advance. Naoyuki Naoyuki Fuse Laboratory for Biodiversity, GCOE Program, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan Tel & Fax: +81-75-753-4261 E-mail: nfuse@gcoe.biol.sci.kyoto-u.ac.jp From dmerrill from k-state.edu Wed Mar 11 15:12:59 2009 From: dmerrill from k-state.edu (Arthropod Genomics) Date: Wed Mar 11 15:15:33 2009 Subject: [Drosophila] Early Registration Deadline: Fri, 3/20, Arthropod Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, 6/11-14/09 Message-ID: Frontiers in Arthropod Genomics 3rd ANNUAL ARTHROPOD GENOMICS SYMPOSIUM June 11 ? 14, 2009, in Kansas City, USA www.k-state.edu/agc/symp2009 Deadline to Register at Early-Bird Rates: Friday, March 20, 2009 Other important deadlines: *Poster Abstract Submissions: Friday, May 15 *Hotel Reservations: Thursday, May 21, or until room block is filled KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: *Fotis C. Kafatos, Imperial College London, ?Evolutionary, functional and population genomics of mosquitoes: The perspective of a malariologist.? *William M. Gelbart, Harvard University, ?Opportunities & Challenges for Arthropod Genomics and Informatics in the NextGen World.? FEATURED SPEAKERS: * Volker Brendel, Iowa State University, ?Opportunities and challenges for automated genome annotation and modeling in a time of unlimited access to sequence data? * Susan J. Brown, Kansas State University, ?Profiling genome transcription during Tribolium development: From egg to eternity? * Jay D. Evans, USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, Maryland, ?Chasing your honey: Genomic studies of honey bees and their pathogens? * Marian R. Goldsmith, University of Rhode Island, ?The new silk road: From Bombyx to butterflies? * David G. Heckel, Max Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, ?Insect defenses in chemical co-evolution: Transcriptional responses of the generalist herbivore Helicoverpa armigera to plant defense compounds, phytohormones, and insecticides? * Kristin Michel, Kansas State University, ?Mosquito salivary gland interactions with malaria parasites? * Terence Murphy, National Center for Biotechnology Information/NIH, ?Arthropod genome support at NCBI and the challenges of annotating genomes in the 21st century? * Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, Kansas State University, ?Sand fly functional genomics and beyond? * Yoonseong Park, Kansas State University, ?Evolutionary processes of the partnership between neuropeptides and their receptors? * Jos? Ribeiro, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIH/NIAID, ?An insight into the spitome of the blood sucking Nematocera? * Denis Tagu, French Nat?l Inst. for Agricultural Research, Rennes, France, ?Using the pea aphid genome to study phenotypic plasticity? * Doreen Ware, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, ?Annotation and comparative analysis of plant genomes? * Stephen K. Wikel, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, ?Tick-host-pathogen research in the post-genomic era? POSTER SESSIONS: There will be two poster sessions. A few platform presentations will be chosen from submitted poster abstracts. Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009. SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM: The symposium sessions will begin Thursday evening, June 11, and continue on Friday and Saturday, with additional events on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Speakers will present new insights from genomic approaches in arthropods and describe the development of tools for genomic analysis. Workshops will be held Thursday prior to the Symposium and Friday evening. Activities will conclude by noon on Sunday, June 14. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Sunday morning will highlight a roundtable discussion led by members of the ArthropodBase Consortium regarding the generation of integrated arthropod genome databases and tools for genome projects. Symposium attendees are invited to join the fun as we share our progress by providing feedback on these projects and proposing new possibilities. REGISTRATION: The early registration fee is $295 ($150 for graduate and undergraduate students) on or before March 20, and will include a welcome reception Thursday evening, breakfast and lunch on Friday and Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday. After March 20, the registration fee is $395 ($225 for students). VENUE: The symposium will take place at the historic Marriott Hotel in downtown Kansas City. Participants are invited to stay Saturday night for an optional evening of jazz and KC barbeque. INFORMATION: Visit our website, www.k-state.edu/agc/symp2009, for complete details and brochure. Add your name to the Symposium mailing list, by sending your contact information to dmerrill@k-state.edu. QUESTIONS: Contact us at (785) 532-3482 or dmerrill@ksu.edu. Please share this announcement with colleagues and students! SPONSOR: Center for Genomic Studies on Arthropods Affecting Human, Animal and Plant Health, Kansas State University SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Robin E. Denell, Committee Chair Susan J. Brown Kristin Michel Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan Yoonseong Park John Reese Doris Merrill, Program Coordinator K-State Arthropod Genomics Center Division of Biology, Kansas State University 116 Ackert Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-4901 (785) 532-3482, dmerrill@k-state.edu www.k-state.edu/agc From geo.vogler from googlemail.com Thu Mar 12 20:44:08 2009 From: geo.vogler from googlemail.com (geo.vogler@googlemail.com) Date: Fri Mar 13 10:36:52 2009 Subject: [Drosophila] tyr1[1] allele stock Message-ID: <5b62e665-0fc6-4aa2-985c-a8faab0d3920@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Hi! I'm looking for a stock b[1] tyr1[1] which is supposed to be available at the DGRC but somehow isn't. If anyone has a copy of that strain I'd greatly appreciate if she/he would contact me. Thanks a lot, Geo From rwoodru from bgsu.edu Fri Mar 13 12:19:29 2009 From: rwoodru from bgsu.edu (Ronny C Woodruff) Date: Fri Mar 13 14:55:48 2009 Subject: [Drosophila] bw^75 Message-ID: Does anyone have a stock of bw^75? Thanks -- ********************************** R. C. Woodruff Distinguished Research Professor CoEditor-in-Chief , GENETICA Department of Biological Sciences Corner Merry and N. College Life Sciences Building Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Telephone: 419-372-0376 Fax: 419-372-2024 email: rwoodru@bgnet.bgsu.edu Who wrote these or where did they appear? 1. "Don't forget, no you, who you are and where you stand in this struggle." 2. "...a history of kitchen and bathroom doodling can give one an intuitive understanding of population genetics." 3. "North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background." ( ) 4. "I am no breeching scholar in the schools. I'll not be tied to hours, nor 'pointed times, But learn my lessons as I please myself." ( ) 5. "If we're not follish young, we're follish old" ( ) 6. "Our genomes badly need worming" ( ) 7. "Meine Zeit wird schon kommen"-"My time will come" ( ) 8. "Our doubts are traitors and makes us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt" ( ) 9. "Beer's a food" ( ) 10. "I am not aware that the tone of society [Australia] has yet assumed any peculiar character, but with such habits & without intellectual pursuits, it can hardly fail to deteriorate (& become like that of the people of the United States)". ( ) 11. "Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law My services are bound" ( ) 12. "We can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron-which we cannot get back." ( ) 13. "...world, world, o world, But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, Life would not yield to age." ( ) 14. "Men should be what they seem;" ( ) 15. "I returned home, much older after crossing the world. Now I ask questions of nobody. But I know less every day". ( ) 16. "That year all the students seemed to mutate..." ( ) 17. "Clearly, advantageous mutations should be much less frequent than deleterious mutations." ( ) 18. "Education is all right, it's the people that spoil it." ( ) 19. "What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am" ( ) 20. "The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep; and was this a time to be poring over musty books in a dark room, slighted by the very sun itself? Monstrous! ( ) 21. "In her winter dress, as now, she was like the tiger-beetle, which, when observed in dull situations, seems to be of the quietest neutral colour, but under a full illumination blazes with dazzling splendour" ( ) 22. "I used to love to drift along the pale-yellow cornfields, looking for the damp spots one sometimes found at their edges, where the smartweed soon turned a rich copper colour and the narrow brown leaves hung curled like cocoons about the swollen joints of the stem." ( ) 23. "Sixty-seven years later, alone again, in a Jackson developed beyond her imagining, widowed, nearly all the adventures of her life in the past, she recalled the earlier memory of solitude. Outside, her overgrown garden, full of trees, the ground dry, yellow, waiting for rain." ( ) 24. "of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body" () 25. "There is commonly less money, less wisdom, and less good faith than men do account upon." ( ) 26. "God so loved the world that he made fruit flies" ( ) 27. "Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn't sense enough to know whom to dispise" ( ) 28. "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!" = ? 29. "I never give them hell, I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." 30. "...natural history, youth's glorious study, has, by dint of cellular improvements, become a hateful and repulsive thing." ( ) 31. "That nobody should remember me who knew me in other days, is natural enough; but there are few people who, seeing me once, forget me now." () 32. "Whatever my hearers might do, I myself always learned something by lecturing. And to those who have experience of what a heart-breaking business teaching is--how much the can't-learns and won't-learns and don't-learns predominate over the do-learns--will understand the comfort of that reflection" 33. Noli turbare circulos meos Don't disturb my circles 34. Nullius in verba Don't take anyone's word for it 35. "You see our pretty things are all outdoors." 36. "You're bound to get ideas if you go thinkin about stuff." 37. "None of us can cast stones, for we are all fellow mutants together." 38. "It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its seasonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time." 39. "...Nought may endure but Mutability" 40. "And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. ... And so we went" 41. "Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I've got others" 42. "Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe still night; too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us: and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence." 43. "It was a fine, busy, breathing, rustic landscape; and as I continued to descend, the highlands of Gevaudan kept mounting in front of me against the sky." 44. "When I stopped to drink, Upon the slimy foot-stone I espied The useless fragment of a wooden bowl: Green with the moss of years, a sight it was; It moved my heart, recalling former times When I could never pass this road but she Who lived within these walls, when I appeared, A daughter's welcome gave me, and I loved her As my own child. O Sir! the good die first, ..." 45. "We do not want the old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things." 1. "So much things to say" Bob Marley 2. "Frogs, flies, and dandelions" M. Schilthuizen 3. "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee 4. "The Taming of the Shrew" 5. The Knight's Tale, "The Canterbury Tales" 6. Matt Ridley, "Genome" 7. Gregor Mendel 8. "Measure for Measure" 9. "Green Hills of Africa" 10. Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle 11. "King Lear" 12. "Look Homeward Angel" 13. "King Lear" 14. "Othello" 15. "And How Long", Pablo Neruda 16. "Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett 17. "The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution", Motoo Kimura 18. Bartender in movie Easter Parade 19. "Waiting for the Barbrians". J. M. Coetzee 20. "The Old Curiosity Shop" Charles Dickens 21. "The Return of the Native" Thomas Hardy 22. "My Antonia" Willa Cather 23 "A Turn in the South" V. S. Naipaul 24. Ecclesiastes 12:12 25. "The Advancement of Learning" Francis Bacon 26. me 27. "A Pair of Blue Eyes", Thomas Hardy 28. ? 29. Harry Truman 30. Jean-Henri Fabre. 1879. "Souvenirs Entomologiques" 31. Dickens "Nicholas Nickleby" 32. Thomas H. Huxley "Man's Place in Nature" 33. Archimedes 212 or 211 BC 34. Royal Society motto 35. Robert Frost "The Housekepper" 36 Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" 37. H. J. Muller, 1950 38. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, "Cross Creek" 39. Shelley "Mutability" 40. John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts "The Log from the Sea of Cortez" 41. Marx (Groucho not Karl) 42. Charlotte Bronte " Jane Eyre" 43. Robert Louis Stevenson "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" 44. William Wordsworth "The Pedlar and the Ruined Cottage" 45. Gore Vidal "Burr" From submit.ajpp from academicjournals.org Wed Mar 18 02:46:42 2009 From: submit.ajpp from academicjournals.org (African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology) Date: Wed Mar 18 08:10:10 2009 Subject: [Drosophila] Call for Papers Message-ID: *African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology* www.academicjournals.org/AJPP Dear Colleague, Introducing =91African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (AJPP)=92 The African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (AJPP) provide rapid publication of articles in all areas of Pharmaceutical Science. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published approximately one month after acceptance. AJPP is a monthly publication and all articles are peer-reviewed. The following types of papers are considere= d for publication: =B7 Original articles in basic and applied research. =B7 Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays. 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Kindly send us an email if you will like to receive publication alert. Best regards, Dr. Seetulsingh- Goorah Editor, African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology http://www.academicjournals.org/AJPP E-mail: ajpp@academicjournals.org, ajpp.academicjournals@gmail.com, ajpp_acadjourn@yahoo.com *http://www.academicjournals.org/AJPP * * * * * * * * * From littlenitnoy from yahoo.co.uk Thu Mar 19 08:43:27 2009 From: littlenitnoy from yahoo.co.uk (Indrayani Ghangrekar) Date: Thu Mar 19 11:04:03 2009 Subject: [Drosophila] Request for dpp mutant or Gal4 lines Message-ID: <58056.62075.qm@web25904.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hello, Does anyone have any dpp mutant lines that have eye phenotypes? Or the dpp-blink Gal4 driver? Please contact me if you can send me any of these flies! Thank you very much, Indi mnfjlig2@student.manchester.ac.uk From zhangpenghua from yahoo.com Fri Mar 27 03:52:53 2009 From: zhangpenghua from yahoo.com (Zhang, Penghua) Date: Fri Mar 27 07:30:16 2009 Subject: [Drosophila] Get Redasoft Plasmid while it's still FREE! Message-ID: <299133.32650.qm@web30602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Sir/Madam I am searching the Redasoft Plasmid and catch this information. If you can share the soft with me when it still free? I am not sure for this information is much old. Anyway I hope this mail won't bother you too much. I look forward to hear from you and appreciate youe help. Sincerely Zhang,Penghua Division of Population Genetics & Prevention Fuwai Hospital & Cardiovascular Institute Chinese Academy of Medicine Sciences Beijing,P.R.China,100037 Tel:086-010-88398071 Fax:086-010-68313012