Information for FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS/bionet.molbio.proteins.fluorescent

USENET newsgroup name:        bionet.molbio.proteins.fluorescent

Mailing list name:	      FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS
 
E-mail posting address:       fluorpro@net.bio.net

Discussion Leaders:

Paul Kitts              e-mail: paulki@clontech.com
Steve Kain              e-mail: stevek@clontech.com
  
  
Bioluminescence, the production of visible light by living
organisms, is a fascinating biological phenomenon. In addition,
bioluminescent organisms have provided biologists with several
powerful research tools: Luciferases which are used as highly
sensitive quantitative reporter genes, Aequorin which is used to
report on intracellular levels of Ca++ ions, the pycobiliproteins,
and most recently Green fluorescent protein (GFP) which is a 
novel reporter that can be used to monitor gene expression and 
protein localization inside living cells and organisms. 

This newsgroup is intended to provide a forum for discussion of
bioluminescence, to promote further development of reporter
proteins obtained from bioluminescent organisms, and to
facilitate their application to interesting biological
questions.

We anticipate that the participants in this newsgroup will be:
- scientists studying the biology and biochemistry of 
  bioluminescence.
- scientists developing new or improved fluorescent proteins,
  luciferases or aequorin-like proteins.
- scientists using these reporter proteins in their research.
- scientists developing instruments for the imaging or 
  quantitation of the light emitted by these reporters.

The newsgroup is intended to provide :
- a forum for the discussion of ideas, problems and recent 
  developments concerning light emitting reporter proteins.
- a place for sharing unpublished results, both successes and 
  failures.
- a source of help on methodological and technical problems.
- opportunities for collaborative efforts between labs.
 
The newsgroup will run unmoderated but we are willing to act as
coordinators.

Paul Kitts & Steve Kain
CLONTECH Laboratories
Palo Alto, California.