Monday, August 28, 2006

29 Aug Lab Meeting

All - a little reminder. Tuesday's lab meeting is scheduled for 11:30-12:30 in 472 LSC - B is presenting DATA!

Saturday, August 26, 2006

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

New Lab Meeting Time

We have switched Liscum Lab Meetings to Tues 11:30-1 in 472 CSBLSC. This is effective starting 29 Aug lab meeting date.

Monday, August 21, 2006

For the record

We had a substantial lab meeting on Friday and Mannie mentioned a number of new items for lab policy. I recorded these and post them here for all:

Individual meeting times

* Show data and plans for experiments to Liscum (regardless of whether you are giving lab meeting) not “I did this…”
* Then in lab meeting everyone in the group will see the data and offer input
* First individual meeting time ought to be lots of stuff to discuss
* Meetings start Monday - 8/21/06 – Meet in Mannie's office
M – 11:15-12 UV
W – 11:15-12 Jen
Thu – 11:15-12 Jo
F – 11:15-12 BC

Lab Meeting

T – 10a-11a New lab meeting time

* All meetings in 4th floor conference room
* Each person presents 1 time in 4 weeks
* People should have new data at lab meeting
* Everyone should comment openly, freely and without fear of criticism (no need to be petty/vindictive)
* Based on people’s data it will be determined whether we do a paper; not an excuse to not have data
* Ullas will present during the first lab meeting – 8/22/06
* Maintain the list of presenters on the blog (liscumlab.blogspot.com)

Mannie’s Rules for Writing Research Papers

* Generate figures with legends and put them into your notebook
* Copping out by writing materials and methods first; instead, save for last
* Liscum starts with the results then the discussion
Results section:
Done the experiments and have the data
Putting prose to the figures
Few references other than to techniques
Discussion section:
Making intellectual sense of results
Conclusions will be referenced highly
* Materials and Methods and Introduction can be written while Liscum reviews results and discussion
* Copy the structure of someone else based on the journal you wish to submit to

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Before we creep out Columbia's 8 and below crowd

Provided the euphoria of the impending Chucky's visit does not overwhelm us on Friday, I am posting a paper for lab meeting (provided we have it of course):

Haodong Chen, Yunping Shen, Xiaobo Tang, Lu Yu, Jia Wang, Lan Guo, Yu Zhang, Huiyong Zhang, Suhua Feng, Elizabeth Strickland, Ning Zheng, and Xing Wang Deng.

"Arabidopsis CULLIN4 Forms an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase with RBX1 and the CDD Complex in Mediating Light Control of Development."

The Plant Cell, July 14, 2006.

http://www.plantcell.org/cgi/rapidpdf/tpc.106.043224v1

Happy reading all!
-B

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Lab outing

Look where (a kid can be a kid) we're going for a lab outing Friday evening!! This is our BIG sendoff to Jessica E - she leaves on lifes adventure of college in a couple weeks but Friday is her last day in the lab.

All are welcome to join the fun and games - pizza, beer, and games!!

Thursday, August 10, 2006

11 Aug Lab Meeting

Because of our previous cacelled lab meeting we will discuss the following paper tomorrow:

Fluorescence cross-corrlation spectroscopy