HI Could you kindly send the following announcement to all
interested parties. Thank you
The Drosophila Species Center (formerly the National Drosophila
Species Center), housed at Bowling Green State University since
1982, is a unique collection of Drosophila species that provides
material to researchers in over 40 countries. The Center maintains
265 species representing 33 species groups and genera in the family
Drosophilidae, with a total of 1,405 strains at present: the most
diverse collection of living organisms in the world. Both
geographically-based wild type and mutant strains ar represented,
with mutant D. melanogaster stocks maintained at the Bloomington
Drosophila stock Center at Indiana University. The Center is funded
by the National Science Foundation, and filled 324 requests for a
total of 1,165 subcultures during 1997. the Center is staffed by a
Director and 3.5 FTE support staff. An Advisory Committee comprised
of 5 scientists who represent various disciplines in Drosophila
biology; this committee oversees stewardship and policy of the
center.
Due to programmatic changes at BGSU, the university is prepared to
transfer the center to a new locality at the end of the current
contract, March 1, 2001. Proposals for the future management of the
collection will need to be sent to NSF by early July 1999. The
Center's advisory committee has outlined criteria that would be
opimal for the new institution which manages the collection.
Briefly, the Direector should be a scientist with an active research
program in a field served by the Center (population biology,
genetics, systematics, evolutionary biology, development)and with
knowledge of species other than Drosophila melanogaster. The Director
should have strong administrative and communication skills: provide
evidence for long-term institutional commitment to the Center; and
have an active role in its developmant. A new institution home would
ideally have approximately 2,000 sq. ft. of space available for the
Center, with presently existing modern facilities or the capacity to
develop such facilities.
The Advisory Committee is available for discussion with any
interested member of the Drosophila community Contact information is
listed below
Bill Heed, Chair, Univ. Arizona: (520) 621-1835
David Grimaldi, Amer Museum Natural History: grimaldi at amnh.org
Marty Kreitman, Univ Chicago: mke at midway.uchicago.edu
Kathy Matthews,Bloomington Drosophila Stoci Center:
matthewk at indiana.edu
Marv Wasserman, Queens College (CUNY): msw$biol at qc1.qc.edu
THANK YOU
