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January 30, 2012

It is our pleasure to introduce our new software engineer, Yogesh Pandit. Yogesh has recently obtained a Master of Science degree in Bioinformatics from Indiana University. He will be working with Siddhartha Basu on our software team.

November 23, 2011

The Dicty Stock Center will be closed for the holidays from December 19, 2011, to January 2, 2012.To receive items before christmas, please order strains by Tuesday, 12/6, and plasmids by Tuesday, 12/13. All items ordered after these dates or during the holidays will be processed after January 3., 2011.

November 10, 2011

US to Australia Science Fellowships are available from the American Australian Association for US citizens and permanent residents.

October 21, 2011

The Dicty 2012 Conference will be held in Madrid, Spain, from July 29^th to August 2^nd organized by Teresa Suarez, Ricardo Escalante, and Leandro Sastre.

October 20, 2011

Dicty is currently on the cover of the journal Blood in an article about the role of ribosomopathy in the human Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS).

September 1, 2011

We are mourning the sudden passing of our dear colleague Harry MacWilliams. We will remember Harry as a brilliant scientist, an avid contributor to dictyBase, and a good friend. We will greatly miss him!

June 23, 2011

We are grateful to Gad Shaulsky, Blaz Zupan, and their labs to make their RNA sequence data available through our beta RNAseq browser. Click on the RNAseq track to obtain links to citations and the full data download. The browser track represents the compiled transcriptional profiles of 7 time points during the D. discoideum development. The data is available under 'Tools' from the blue top bar from every dictyBase page.

June 20, 2011

We are pleased to announce that we have now finished first-pass gene model curation, which resulted in 12,257 curated protein coding genes, and 649 annotated pseudogenes.

March 24, 2011

There is a new video taken in David Knecht's Cell Biology Laboratory course, also accessible from our Multimedia/Development page. It shows individual cells crawling that begin to lay down 'tracks' at about 17 hrs, as the slug also begins to migrate. Click on the picture to watch the movie.

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