ONZM for Kathryn

Work started at 7 am this morning with a Skype with Gill and Taryn. Nice to hear Kathryn received the insignia of the ONZM from the Governor General in Government House yesterday.

Kathryn Stowell being congratulated by Governor General Jerry Mateparae

We have now been here in Marburg 6 weeks but I have still not caught up with everyone in the Kahmann lab - but close now. Today I met with Joachim and Andre. I was already familiar with the background to Joachim's project as I was one of the judges of his poster at Asilomar. It was nice to have the time to more fully understand the complexities of the project. The Dictyostelium bioassay for an active Acb1 peptide was very cool. Andre took me through his PhD work on Pit2. Nice to have such a clean host interaction phenotype and to identify the host interactors. We also spent some time discussing the RNAseq experiment he is managing which will require some very serious computational analysis. I shared with him some of our RNAseq data sets and how they were analysed.

Tomorrow we are off to London then on to Cambridge Monday and Norwich Wednesday.