This page will provide updates for the pombe community including meetings, organizational discussions, gene naming, genome updates, and postdoc positions. If you have news to be included, please send it to forsburg at U S C dot E D U. Items must be of interest to the international pombe community.
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Community news and the latest from Val |
Postdoc positions | Pombe-only meetings (for other meetings, click here)
Resources on this site: Pombeweb: links to pombe on the internet, Sanger, labs, etc | Pombe people: list of home pages or brochures describing pombe labs worldwide
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Pombe methods, including the pombe FAQ
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Pombe plasmids
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Gene conversion table: what's the cerevisiae equivalent to your gene?
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Sequencing links
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Technical references
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Forsburg Lab homepage
General Repository for Interaction Datasets : A project to record published genetic and physical interactions is underway with Mike Tyers and the GRID group at Toronto. A sample page is here. If you are interested in participating either in direct data entry of your favorite genes, or in assisting in quality control after the data entry is complete, please email Susan Forsburg forsburg (AT) U S C (DOT) E D U or Val Wood val (AT) SANGER (DOT) A C (DOT) U K as soon as possible to join the pombe GRID mailing list. ( September 2004)
3rd International Pombe Meeting, 24-29 August, San Diego CA was a great success. Check out Charlie Hoffman's traditional picture gallery!
Need access to a microarray? Academic users can find out about the SUNY microarray facility from this letter from Janet Leatherwood.
The pombe genome is complete! see this News Release.
Congratulations to Paul Nurse, parent of the pombe cell cycle, who shares the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Lee Hartwell and Tim Hunt! For more information about the award-winning work, see this BBC brief.
Gene expression/microarray data update (from Jurg Bahler) Check profiles of your favorite genes under different conditions with the Gene expression viewer
| Process | S. cerevisiae | S. pombe |
|---|---|---|
| TOTAL | 5762 | 4926 |
| Metabolism | 2564 | 2379 |
| amino acid met | 148 | 155 |
| Transcription | 389 | 340 |
| trancription reg | 299 | 261 |
| RNA processing | 201 | 215 |
| Carbo met | 217 | 208 |
| Lipid met | 198 | 174 |
| energy pathways | 201 | 165 |
| Protein met and mod | 616 | 598 |
| cell cycle | 477 | 510 |
| sporulation | 61 | 71 |
| meiosis | 78 | 111 |
| cell cell fusion | 101 | 117 |
| int ex transport | 173 | 151 |
| membrane transporters | 288 | 230 |
| sig trans | 264 | 294 |
| cell rescue | 213 | 223 |
| cell org | 417 | 485 |
| budding | 26 | |
| ion homeostasis | 33 | 18 |
| At least 1 class | 3809 | 3424 |
| unclass | 1953 | 1502 |
| very hypothetical | 193 | 116 |
| UNSORTED | 292 | 227 |
| hypothetical conserved | 643 | 568 |
| cer/pom specific fam. | 180 | 73 |
| sequence orphan | 550 | 529 |
The overall organising committee is a troika of Paul Nurse, Mitsuhiro Yanagida, and Amar Klar.
Other news and committeesA gene nomenclature committee has been established
Jurg Kohli says: Several colleagues have asked for the experimental data that are the basis for the genetic map as it was published in the pombe book (Academic Press 1989). In the book, these data, that were compiled by Peter Munz, have not been included. So, as one of his last projects before retirement (end of April this year), Peter assembled the data and had them transferred to our home page, where they can be accessed freely. Peter has also written an explanatory text. There is also a version of the map online at NCBI
Available positions will be listed here for no less than three months after submission, after which time I may remove them unless the PI (lab head, or principal investigator) requests an extension. There isn't room for detailed advertisements, only the PI name and location, the project title or 1-sentence description, available date, and email address and /or web site for further information. Lab heads: send me an email with this information for your position, and I will add a listing here. Applicants: need a postdoc? Don't be shy about writing any pombe people to see if unadvertised opportunities are available in their labs! Also, remember that US labs do not have a studentship system--admission to the university is required independent of the laboratory.
Position available PI Melanie Ohi, Vanderbilt University Medical School. A post-doctoral position is available to study the structure and function of spliceosome complexes isolated from S. pombe.
Interim North American/East Coast fission yeast meetin, 11-13 Nov 2005, Miami Beach FLl. Co-organizers:
Gennaro D'Urso and Fulvia Verde European Fission Yeast Meeting
An interim S. pombe meeting will take place on 16th-18th March 2006 at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton (Cambridge, UK). Preliminary details are available at the Wellcome Trust Conference Programme website.4th International Pombe Meeting will be in 2007 in Copenhagen.
Other meetings of interest to pombe biologists
Past meetings
3rd International pombe meeting, 24-29 August, at Univ. California, San Diego. Organizer:
Paul Russell. Click here for pictures.
Interim North American/East Coast fission yeast meeting, Pombe 2003, 25-27 July 2003, at Univ. Massachusetts Medical School. Co-organizers:
Dan McCollum and Nick Rhind. Email pombe2003@umassmed.edu. Click here for pictures.
Interim European fission yeast meeting, EuroPombe 2003, 27-28
June 2003, at ISREC, Epalinges, Switzerland. Co-organisers:
Viesturs Simanis, Jacky Hayles and Paul Nurse. The 2nd International Fission Yeast Meeting was held in Kyoto in March, 2002. The 3rd meeting will be in August, 2004.
The Pombe 2000 workshop was held 28 Sept - 1 oct, 2000 at the ICRF in London. Here's a picture taken during pombe-friend Carl Singer's historical tour of yeast meetings, which featured Paul Nurse's changing facial hair (that's why everyone is laughing....).
Need real instruction? The Copenhagen pombe coursewas last held in June, 2000.
The 1st International Fission Yeast Meeting was held in Edinburgh in September, 1999. Check The Beagle for a review, and Charlie Hoffman's unofficial photo album for the pictures!
Here's the index of the abstract book. 
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