From xenbase at ucalgary.ca Tue Aug 12 10:13:28 2014 From: xenbase at ucalgary.ca (xenbase) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:13:28 -0400 Subject: [Xenopus] Aquatic Animal Models of Human Disease 2014 conference. Message-ID: <9C2F92B6-0C6C-470B-9B9E-53791D36F30E@ucalgary.ca> Registration is now OPEN for the 7th AQMHD conference, being held in Austin, Texas, December 13-18th 2014. Visit the website for more information: http://aqmhd.txstate.edu/ This is a great opportunity to promote Xenopus as a model to study many aspects of human disease. Registration is discounted for students ($200) and postdocs ($375)- Please encourage them to attend! The registration fee includes admission to all sessions and events, breakfast, lunch, dinner and coffee breaks at the resort daily. Also included are transportation to and from Austin or San Marcos by coach. 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I forgot to put out the signup sheet at the meeting - if you?d like to receive emails about their latest content, please let me know: bheald at berkeley.edu or sign up at: eLifesciences.org Thanks! Rebecca Rebecca Heald, Professor Chair, Division of Cell and Developmental Biology 311 Life Sciences Addition Department of Molecular & Cell Biology University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-3200 phone: (510) 643-5493 fax: (510) 643-6791 http://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/heald/ From mustafa.khokha at yale.edu Fri Aug 29 22:42:02 2014 From: mustafa.khokha at yale.edu (Khokha, Mustafa) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:42:02 +0000 Subject: [Xenopus] PI Meeting - Things to Do Message-ID: <1B730EF0-3687-460E-BC91-F05C04554884@yale.edu> Thanks for everyone that participated in the PI meeting at the end of the Xenopus Meeting at Asilomar. I thought I would send a list of action items we discussed at the meeting. Wonderful to see you all. Best, Mustafa Please write three letters of support. Letter should be brief and state that each resource saves costs to your grants and increases your productivity. Funding leads to less overall cost! Specific examples are extremely effective and will be used by James Coulombe in his summary to leadership at NICHD. #1 - Support for NICHD to continue to co-Fund NXR, send to Marko Horb at the MBL mhorb at mbl.edu #2 - Support for NICHD to provide Xenbase with bridge funds until renewal - Send to Aaron Zorn #3 - Support for NICHD to renew Xenbase - Send to Aaron Zorn Aaron.Zorn at cchmc.org Identify White Paper Priorities. Very preliminary list 1. Renewal of ORFeome 2. Gene Editing to create disease models 3. Continued annotation of Xenopus genomes and support. 4. Xenopus specific Antibodies. Please send additional white paper items or Community Resource ideas to: Mustafa Khokha - mustafa.khokha at yale.edu Sally Moody - samoody at gwu.edu Inclusion of Xenopus if you find websites, meetings, resources that include model organisms but not Xenopus, email them and tell them to include Xenopus. Also email Mustafa and Sally and we will contact them and strongly encourage them to include Xenopus. We can also mobilize the community to write them and ask for inclusion. Write reviews and commentaries about the power of the frog. Serve on editorial boards, serve as reviewers, serve on society boards. Make frogs visible. Advocate for Xenopus. Mustafa Khokha Associate Professor Pediatrics & Genetics Yale University School of Medicine mustafa.khokha at yale.edu