Eccles:Newsletter Friday November 10th 2006

Developmental Genetics Newsletter

Updates

Mike

• Is working hard towards putting in a proposal for the Cancer Center of Research Excellence together with Tony Reeves, deadline is Nov 24th.
• Reviewing papers:
  • Shujihe and Mike have recently reviewed a paper for Carcinogenesis.
  • Adele and MIke have have just finished reviewing a paper for Oncogene.
  • Upcoming review to be done for Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology.
• Queenstown Molecular Biology Conference 2007.
  • Mike has been asked to get speakers together for a cancer molecular biology satalite meeting.
  • Do you have a favorite famous international scientist you'd like to hear speak on cancer molecular biology? forward ideas to MIke :-)
  • Mike will be away Monday and Tuesday November 20th and 21st to the Auckland Cancer Society Research Center Symposium with Janice and Anthony.

Cherie

• Cherie's working on characterisation of their mouse and human cystic kidney cell lines.
• Will be attending the Membrane Protein Workshop on November 29th.
• The paper has hit the public and can be found online before paper publishing at Epub ahead of print [[1]]

Aaron

• Is working on transfection of melanoma cells and Pax3

Shujie

• Is working on melanoma and Pax3, at the moment she is counting Pax3 and Ki67 cells