The Forsburg Lab pombe Pages:
Frequently asked questions

This part of the Forsburg Lab website answers the most frequently asked questions about working with S. pombe. It will direct you to the many pages on our site. Visit our home page for a directory to this site. If you want to browse practical information, start with our pombe technology page. Frequent literature citations are on the reference page

• What's pombe?
• What are some useful numbers and constants about pombe (the almanac)?
• How evolutionarily distant is pombe from cerevisiae?
• Can I make beer with pombe?
• Where can I learn about S. pombe history?
• Where does wild type strain 972 come from?

• Make diploids?
• Work with h90 strains?
• Work with non-sporulating (mat2-102) diploids?
• Make crosses?
• Pull tetrads or do random spores?
• Choose markers?
• Do bulk spore germination?
• Do colony PCR?
• Construct disruptions and integrations?
• Find genetic mapping data?
• Make media?
• Counterselect with FOA?
• Use drug selections?
• Just where are all those ade6 mutations, anyway?
• Grow in non-fermentable carbon sources?

• Do FACS (flow cytometry)?
• Find out why pombe FACS has no 1C peak?
• DAPI stain fixed cells?
• Choose the right plasmid?
• Choose the right promoter?
• Transform pombe with a plasmid?
• Shut off the nmt promoter?
• Titrate expression from the nmt promoter?
• Do cross-complementation with genes from other species?
• Do plasmid shuffle?
• Make a temperature sensitive mutant?
• Use hydroxylamine to mutagenize my plasmid in vitro?
• Find more protocols?
• Find info about GFP fusions?
• Treat my cells with DNA damaging agents?
• Design primers to disrupt or amplify open reading frames?

• Get strains?
• Get plasmids?
• Find references for plasmids and methods?
• Name my gene or contact the nomenclature committee?
• Make drug stocks?

• Find or analyze sequences?
• Access the pombe genome project?
• Find out about post-genomics? (also see Juerg's page )
• Find the S. cerevisiae homologue to my gene?
• Find out about genome-wide epigenetic analysis (from Shiv Grewal's lab)
• Gain access to a pombe microarray for my experiment?
• Find out genome statistics?
• Find out restriction site usage in the genome?
• Check codon usage?
• Learn about the related yeast S. japonicus?

• Find pombe people?
• Find pombe meetings?
• Join mailing lists and newsgroups?
• Find postdoc positions?
• Find the latest community news?

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