LABORATORY IN NORTHERN GREECE SEEKING COLLABORATION
FOR THE 4TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME IN DROSOPHILA/INSECT
GENOME SEQUENCING/EVOLUTION/DEVELOPMENT
A group in the Department of Genetics & Molecular Biology, in the Faculty
of Biology, School of Sciences, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki,
is seeking collaboration with european groups in an already existing
network for the Fourth Framework Programme applications, coming up soon.
We would be interested in joining a network applying for Insect, and more
particularly Drosophila, genome analysis, and study of evolution and
development. Our model organism is the species Drosophila auraria, a
species of the montium subgroup of the melanogaster species group, as
well as other montium species occupying the montium geographical
distribution. We realize that there is only very little time left,
but we are willing to contribute in the proposal as well as in the
diversification of the network, both from a scientific and geographical
viewpoint. Please let us know whether there is any interest, and we
will come back to you immediately.
Contact: Dr Z. Scouras
Associate Professor
Dept. of Genetics
Faculty of Biology
School of Sciences
Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
GR-54006 Thessaloniki
Greece
internet: skouras at olymp.ccf.auth.gr
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
1) Pissios P & Scouras ZG (1993) Mitochondrial DNA Evolution in the
montium subgroup of Drosophila. Mol Biol Evol 10: 375-382
2) Scouras ZG et al. (1994) The b-tubulin genes of Drosophila auraria
are arranged in a cluster. Current Genet 25: 84-87
3) Drosopoulou E & Scouras (1995) The b-tubulin gene family evolution
in the montium species subgroup of Drosophila. J Mol Evol 40: (in press)
4) Konstantopoulou I et al. (1995) A Drosophila hsp70 gene contains
Long Antiparallel Coupled Open Reading Frames (LAC ORFs) conserved
in homologous loci. J Mol Evol (in press)
