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Dear Colleagues:
Welcome to Xine, the source for Xenopus news and information. Here's what's happening...
11th International Xenopus Meeting
Dear Colleagues,
I think that everyone attending will agree that the recent Xenopus meeting was a huge success. It was great to see old friends, to make new friends and to see how far we have come since 2004, particularly with regard to genetic and genomic resources. The meeting was extraordinarily well organized and our hosts made it a memorable experience.
If anyone wants to send me photos from the meeting, I will be happy to put them up on my lab web site. Photos of lab reunions/alumni gatherings would be particularly good to have.
Bruce
From Matt Guille
Xenopus Community Transgenics
A consortium is being formed to establish a number of transgenic lines thatwill be of general use to the Xenopus community, covering both cell and developmental biology. The goal is to produce both laevis and tropicalis lines and to make these rapidly available via resource centres.
A committee exists to prioritise the lines to be made first and suggestionsare being sought from members of the Xenopus community. We hope to start work on the first 10 lines in November of this year.
Feedback and comment will continue via Xenbase.
Please send your suggestions for useful lines to Matt Guille at the European Resource Centre before Friday 13th October. Email: matthew.guille@port.ac.uk.
Many thanks.
From Maureen Hoatlin
I attended the Xenopus meeting last week in Japan and thought the Xenopus community might be interested in setting up a Xenopus Community wiki site onOpen Wet Ware, a site originated and hosted by Synthetic Biologist Drew Endy at al at MIT (nice group of folks there!).
A wiki (like wikipedia, only for labs or research communities) might be useful for interactions among the members of the Xenopus community in areas that do not overlap with XenBase.
The main advantage I see is that everyone contributes directly rather than having a bottleneck at the webmaster (less work for the administrator), anddiscussions are facilitated without emails.
I set up a sample page so you can have a look. http://openwetware.org/wiki/Xenopus_Community#XenCommunity , http://openwetware.org/wiki/Xenopus_Community
An example of a more highly evolved wiki community can be viewed at http://openwetware.org/wiki/Synthetic_Biology.
Here is info on getting started: http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Getting_started.
Example of how an open source grant can be written on the wiki: http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Steering_committee/NSF_BDI_Grant.
This sounds like a very interesting idea. Feedback is invited
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Until next time.
Bruce