By Steve, on March 29th, 2012
After almost 7 years the Gates team is slowly dissolving. Dean will shortly depart for Australia to his soon to be acquired orchard near Manjimup. We’ve had fun I think and done some good science along the way!
Good luck Dean
By Steve, on March 20th, 2012
Up to Hampden to see Killie play Celtic in the League Cup final. ”The day was bright and sunny” (Proclaimers – Joyful Kilmarnock Blues). We travelled more in hope than expectation but were rewarded by a fine performance from the Lads, some splendid goalkeeping from man of the match Cammy Bell, a goal 6 min from time and Killie are in Dreamland.
2012 League Cup Winners without conceding a single goal in the whole tournament.
Drink was taken!
By jelena, on March 8th, 2012
In the glorious world of post-viva freedom, Jelena is joining in with mass fruit fly worship at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago. She’s also occasionally expressing her enthusiasm by blogging and tweeting about it.
By Steve, on March 1st, 2012
Our paper on the mRNA content of fly sperm, a collaboration between FlyChip, Tim Karr and Steve Dorus, is published in Proc R Soc B today. We make the interesting observation that mature fly sperm contain an mRNA repertoire and that at least some of these transcripts are transferred to the egg upon fertilisation. Intriguingly, the major signature of the fly sperm mRNA population is a striking enrichment for mRNAs encoding ribosomal proteins and other translation functions: we find exactly the same enrichment in the mRNA purified from human sperm. A mystery 
By Steve, on February 27th, 2012
Jelena had her PhD viva on Friday, after delivering a research talk to the dept, and survived relatively unscathed. Drink was taken
Well done!
By Steve, on February 14th, 2012
The long awaited (by me at least) record from Twilight Sad is to be recommended. Following my enjoyment of the Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, a collection of Nine Inch Nails records are now available. Check out the Feist records (in preparation for Green Man Festival) and a few other more esoteric things for your delectation.
Enjoy
Steve
By Steve, on January 31st, 2012
A fantastic paper from Giacomo Cavalli’s lab – a whole genome Hi-C map of the fly genome develops a model of the way the fly genome is partitioned into regulatory domains in the nucleus. This is a technical tour-de-force that provides a basis for exploring how the genome is partitioned into active and inactive domains in the 3D space of the nucleus.
Sexton et al (2012) Cell 148:
By Steve, on January 31st, 2012
Kenny Anderson (AKA King Creosote) & Jon Hopkins performed their sublime Diamond Mine record at J2 last night, spellbinding (apart from the twats with the loud clicky cameras who had to be restrained). If you haven’t heard this record, you should check it out.
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By Steve, on January 6th, 2012
Esperanto for Happy New Year. 
New music added to the music server for 2012 includes Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Head and The Heart, Eli “Paperboy” Reed, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Girl with Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, film was not to bad for Hollywood, could have been soooo much worse), which includes a splendid version of Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song. Also, for the nostalgic or frankly elderly easy listening fans amongst you……60 classic tracks from Glen Campbell (I had a burning desire to hear Wichita Lineman over the festive season).
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By Steve, on December 17th, 2011
Jelena submitted her thesis on Thursday, on the day she had set as a deadline. Excellent job!
After almost 7 years the Gates team is slowly dissolving. Dean will shortly depart for Australia to his soon to be acquired orchard near Manjimup. We’ve had fun I think and done some good science along the way!
