Eccles:Newsletter Friday February 2nd 2007

Mike

 * Has got his calendar on the web!!! Have a look at "http://dsmx1.otago.ac.nz:8080/mike-eccles/week.php?cal=Public"

Cherie

 * Cherie's working on the characterization of their mouse and human cystic kidney cell lines.
 * Will be attending the Forefronts Symposium on Nephrogenetics: from development to physiology being held just north of Boston, USA.
 * Is working hard on getting a poster together on characterization of their PKD cell lines.
 * Will be away from March 6th to 17th
 * May well enjoy the total fitness center, horse riding in the yachting capital of the world!
 * may or may not enjoy traveling with a one year old but is guaranteed to get a few stories out of it ;-)

Aaron

 * Is working on transfection of melanoma cells and Pax3.

Shujie

 * Is working on melanoma and Pax3
 * Is having an extended Waitangi day holiday with Monday off.

Adele

 * Is working hard at getting the Pax8 transfection experiments with ovarian cell lines.
 * Is working on getting primary melanoma cell culture started from pathology samples.
 * Is happy to have Mike Algie here to get working on a stably inducible cell line with the Flp-In T-Rex system.
 * Is now a lecturer! Has taken over from Ken Turner to do Mels305 along with Anna Wiles and they are trying hard to make it a better more interesting course.

Lana

 * Is happy to be back and working hard on growing up some cells to get ready for the characterization studies.

Jody

 * Has heaps of tail tipping to do and can't wait to see what those little mice got up to over the holidays ;-)
 * Has her first scan of the little fella in two weeks.

Hayden

 * Has a big interview on Waitangi day with Edinburgh University for entrance into the Wellcome Trust PhD program. Congratulations Hayden!!!
 * Has only a few weeks left and may well have finished his last experiment!

Grace

 * Has grown up some melanocyes, Mel-ST, free to all!

Nicki

 * Is working hard on her Masters.
 * definitely has no days off, including Waitangi day....

Lucy

 * Will be coming back to full time next week
 * Is trying to get her head around the monthly report.

Amy

 * Has been spending lots of time over at the center for inovation doing wound assays and has got some excellent videos of cells moving around.

Mike A
Will be very busy with his wedding on March 10th and a new baby coming in mid-July, Congratulations Mike!
 * Has come in and got straight to working with the Flp-In T-Rex system with a couple of cell lines.

Matthew

 * Has nearly finished working on the 'What's in the Dewar' project.
 * Getting ready to do some microsatellite marker analysis for the PKD sheep project.

Reminders

 * Well one audit down and two to go, Lynne's been round and more or less things were sweet, thanks for tidying up. And the IBSC will be in a couple weeks.

Happenings

 * IBSC and MAF audits to come.
 * Hayden leaving by the end of February.