From isabell.witt from uni-koeln.de Thu Jun 5 11:58:28 2008 From: isabell.witt from uni-koeln.de (Isabell Witt) Date: Thu Jun 5 18:39:43 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] PhD studentships in Biology Message-ID: <025201c8c72d$6087d6f0$219784d0$@witt@uni-koeln.de> The Graduate School for Biological Sciences in Cologne?????????????????????????? has openings for 10 Ph. D. studentships starting autumn 2008 Deadline for admission is July 31, 2008 The GSfBS will provide you with an excellent scientific environment and an outstanding curriculum for your doctorate. Faculty members listed below do research in molecular genetics, functional genomics, cell biology, evolutionary biology, biotechnology and biochemistry in a variety of model organisms. Details of the training and research programme can be found on the website. We invite you to apply for a position in the graduate school in Cologne, the exciting city in the heart of Europe. For further information please visit our web site at: http://www.gs-biosciences.uni-koeln.de/gsfbs_start.html Contact: Dr. Isabell Witt, Graduate School for Biological Sciences, Zulpicher Strasse 47, 50674 Cologne, Germany. isabell.witt@uni-koeln.de, +49 (0)221 470 1683 Faculty Marcel Bucher, Jurgen Dohmen, Ulf-Ingo Flugge, Ute Hocker, Thorsten Hoppe, Jonathan Howard, Martin Hulskamp, Reinhard Kramer, Christian Kubisch, Thomas Langer,? Maria Leptin, Michael Melkonian, Carien Niessen, Siegfried Roth, Bjorn Schumacher, Gunther Schwarz, Mirka Uhlirova; Brunhilde Wirth Dr. Isabell Witt Graduate School for Biological Sciences Z?lpicher Strasse 47 D-50674 Cologne +49 (0) 221 4701683 fax: +49 (0) 221 4701632 isabell.witt@uni-koeln.de From sean.cutler from ucr.edu Fri Jun 6 12:47:50 2008 From: sean.cutler from ucr.edu (Sean Cutler) Date: Fri Jun 6 13:01:43 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Screening library for plant chemical genomics Message-ID: <48497846.4090306@ucr.edu> Hello everyone- Over the past few years my lab has assembled a collection of ~3600 bioactive small molecules tailored for use in plant chemical genomics. We have shared this library with several labs to assist their screening initiatives and this email is to notify any interested users of its availability. More information about the library can be found at: http://cutlerlab.blogspot.com/2008/05/latca.html. Thanks- Sean Cutler -- Assistant Professor University of California, Riverside Department of Botany and Plant Sciences Center for Plant Cell Biology Department of Chemistry (CFM) 5451 Boyce Hall Riverside, CA 92521 (office) 951.827.6990 (lab) 951.827.6991 (fax) 951.827.4437 http://cutlerlab.blogspot.com/ From sean.cutler from ucr.edu Mon Jun 9 17:54:07 2008 From: sean.cutler from ucr.edu (Sean Cutler) Date: Mon Jun 9 20:36:44 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] LATCA chemical screening library, repost Message-ID: <484DB48F.2060006@ucr.edu> Hello everyone, Over the past few years my lab has assembled a collection of ~3600 bioactive small molecules tailored for use in plant chemical genomics. We have shared this library with several labs to assist their screening initiatives and this email is to notify any interested users of its availability. More information about the library can be found at: http://cutlerlab.blogspot.com/2008/05/latca.html Apologies for the repost, a problem with the link on the last email was reported. Sean Cutler -- Assistant Professor University of California, Riverside Department of Botany and Plant Sciences Center for Plant Cell Biology Department of Chemistry (CFM) 5451 Boyce Hall Riverside, CA 92521 (office) 951.827.6990 (lab) 951.827.6991 (fax) 951.827.4437 http://cutlerlab.blogspot.com/ From peifenz from acoma.stanford.edu Thu Jun 19 17:14:48 2008 From: peifenz from acoma.stanford.edu (Peifen Zhang) Date: Thu Jun 19 20:30:57 2008 Subject: [Plant-biology] Plant Metabolic Network News Announcement Message-ID: <485ADA58.2000800@acoma.stanford.edu> Dear Plant Researchers, The Plant Metabolic Network (PMN) is pleased to announce the initial launch of its official web site (http://plantcyc.org) and the first release of PlantCyc, a comprehensive biochemical pathway reference database dedicated to the plant kingdom. The PMN is an NSF-funded collaborative project among databases and biochemists with a common goal to build a broad network of plant metabolic pathway databases. The central database of PMN, PlantCyc (version 1.0), has over 500 pathways and about 3000 enzymes involved in primary and secondary metabolism, consolidated from over 290 plant species. The majority of these pathways come from AraCyc (version 4.5, http://www.arabidopsis.org/biocyc/index.jsp) and MetaCyc (version 12.0, http://metacyc.org). Many pathway diagrams were manually extracted from the plant literature. They are either supported by experimental evidence or are based on expert hypotheses. A small portion of the pathways were computationally predicted but validated by curators with supporting evidence in the literature. Evidence codes are attached to pathways and to enzymes to indicate data quality. In addition to PlantCyc, the PMN will develop and host a collection of single-species databases like that of AraCyc (Arabidopsis). We are currently developing databases for several agronomically important plants including poplar, soybean, wheat and maize. PMN will also host databases developed elsewhere such as RiceCyc (rice), MedicCyc (medicago) and LycoCyc (tomato). These single-species pathway databases place the sequenced and annotated genomes or ESTs in a biochemical context to facilitate the discovery of enzymes and the engineering of metabolic pathways. They also provide a platform for users to display and analyze functional genomics data, such as those generated from microarray and metabolomic experiments. Nearly 30 plant biochemists serve on the PMN editorial board to provide overall vision and guidance to the PMN project and they play an active role in ensuring the high quality of the information present in the PMN. The enhancement of the PMN databases is an ongoing effort. All users are encouraged to send corrections, feedback, and new data. Please contact us at curator@plantcyc.org. The PMN Team