2007 The year of the Liscum Lab!

We've now entered a new year and it's time for resolutions...I am making a New Year's resolution for the Lab as a whole:

We collectively will put the lab back on the map, on campus and off!

We are in a rebuilding phase in the lab, both relative to relationships and expanding the group (e.g., getting new personnel). We've have several manuscripts that need to get out the door (mostly my fault on this count) and others that should be in the works this year. Let's make this a banner high profile pub year. We can achieve our goals (resolution) if we all put our energies forward. This starts with me and works it way downward, but if I drop the ball you all have to hold me to the fire as well.

I have great faith in our group.

Ho! Ho! It's now THAT time of year

It's been too long since the last lab post when the header is Boo!! and it's now mid Dec!! Not much new, we've had some ups and downs over the last couplee months but as we end this year and enter another I am hopeful for GREAT things from each and every member of the lab. Our annual Christmas/Holiday party is tomorrow at B's (it's in it's 3rd year at B's!!) and we are once again doing the gift exchange/steal, with the change that this years exchange will be of DVDs only. Any DVD mind you, just limited the gift to a certain type...so will Jo bring Zoolander or GalaxyQuest?? Will B bring Saw II (he promised no Saw, which I took to mean no Saw I), what will I annoy people with??? I don't have a clue what our current undergrads might bring. Time will time...stay tuned.

BOO!!! It's that time of year...

Hey all

Time for some Halloween news from the Liscum Lab and the Liscum House of Horrors - If you are wondering what we're up to this Halloween season Click HERE and go to the News/Update section of Mannie's Halloween Page

Happy Haunting

Lab Meeting 17 Oct

All - B will be presenting 'manuscript' ready first versions of hph data (ALL data!) this week at lab meeting. The purpose is to go through tthe data with him in a similar fashion to how we've went through U-man's data to revise/tweak stuff so he can start finalizing what will go into the manuscript!

These data-storming sessions work only if eveyone, presenter and critics, all put their energy into tthis. We've all stepped up to the plate recently...great job...let's keep it up.

10/10/06 Lab meeting

Hello everyone:

For this Tuesday's lab meeting, the recent article of phosphatase (PP1) action in regulating stomatal opening will be discussed.

The link to the article is here:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/103/36/13549

-B

26 Sept Lab Meeting

Adgenda: Jen will have her 're-do' of her sphingo presentation. Ullas may update us on his JBC progress as well.

Howdy Y'all!

Greetin's from a location south of the Mason Dixon, way south.
I've arrived, settled, and to quote the classic movie "Kingpin," am finally above the law.
It's been a lot of work, but I like it. I've got three different classes this semester and four next with research and all the other faculty stuff.

If anyone's out this way, feel free to drop a line. There's lots of outdoor stuff to do here because there is nothing but outdoors. Atlanta is close by though if you prefer the city life.

Also, if you felt like giving a seminar I could hook you up. I'm the committee.

Here's the new info:
tjcampbell@ngcsu.edu

-Tom

Halloween in T-47 days.

12 Sept Lab Meeting

The U-Man is re-presenting data this week (updated figures for his JBC submission he's working on)...come with your thinkin' caps on!!! We need lot's of critical input.

New Day

Today's lab meeting was hopefully a watershed meeting...time will of course tell, but I hope that this is in fact the case. Next week (Tues 12 Sept), Ullas will present what is hopefully his final set of figures for his JBC manuscript...come with questions and comments, criticisms and complements.

Please do take comments made in lab meeting today to heart but not as personal attacks. Criticisms yes, attacks NO. The lab can only grow if we give it room to do so...we all have that capacity and will all benefit from doing so.

I'm proud of ALL of you presently in the lab and have high expectations for each of you - live up to them!

The Boss

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!

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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.

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

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

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!!

11 Aug Lab Meeting

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

Fluorescence cross-corrlation spectroscopy

28 July Lab Meeting - CORRECTION

All - OK due to some absences next week we will do our round table "what I've been doing and propose to do" discussion at this weeks lab meeting. Presentations can be informal to formal, but make them clear and understandable. We'll have projector if you want to use electronic visuals (they are encouraged as a way to show off your data!). Everyone should plan on taking 10-15 minutes each (more is certainly acceptable if discussion deems it).

We'll do the paper previously posted 11 Aug

28 July Lab Meeting - Paper Discussion

All, for this weeks lab meeting we'll discuss the following paper:

Fluorescence cross-corrlation spectroscopy

Euchre

It's euchre night!

If anyone's interested, lets play euchre on Tuesday night (7/25) at 7:30 at my place.
The address is 1709 Hinkson Ave. #4, next to BXR and Stephens Stables. My apartment is in the eastern most building, on the ground floor. Call 815-9035 if you need help.

We could get two games going if there were enough people, but I would need some folding chairs donated. ( I have 6 chairs total).

Uno is a possibility if Ullas brings it. I'll have some beer.

Everybody's invited...even if your new to the lab and I don't know you. Also, we're going to have a BBQ this weekend, saturday night in cosmo park, to which you are also invited.

Who's in for the euchre?

The Big Show

Well, I can't really say it's the "big" time, but I'm happy about it nonetheless and since this is the forum for Liscum Lab posts, here's my update. I'm finally above the law...as an associate professor! Yep, I'm packing up my stuff and moving to a new school in Georgia. Now, if I can just forget that this is the same area where Deliverance was filmed, I'll be fine.

Anyways, to finance my move, I was thinking to host a poker party, but then I remembered that I suck at poker and would end up losing, so I think I'll have a euchre night instead- in the coming week or two. I'll keep the board posted.