It was nice to fly into Dulles late yesterday afternoon over the green piedmont of Northern Virginia. The day before I had a great meeting at Caltech’s Broad Cafe with Andy Cameron of The Biological Bulletin’s editorial board who is working on the Sea Urchin Genome Project–nearly finished. The Sea Urchin is a remarkable model system, not only for developmental biology but also for those of us looking a protein kinase C- (PKC) mediated signal transcription in a simple system. What’s also interesting about the Urchin is that gene super-families often are reduced to a single member (PKC is an example of this). So we’re really looking forward to this annotated data when it comes out, probably over the summer.
Mid-week, I’m off to Scotland, for a few days of vacation.
Jim
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