This [...]]]> We bid farewell last weekend to our lab visitor, Nastassa Gioti, who is headed back to Sweden after 6 fun weeks in Riverside.  We learned from her, and she got to dig into her genome datasets for Neurospora in the context of the comparative and genome annotation tools we have, so it was fun all around!

This also marked the second get together (but the first where we remembered to bring a camera). Since we gathered at a local mexican restaurant with whimsical and amazing sculptures and art from recycled material, it was fitting we document it with pictures.

I also had a chance to present some work at UCLA [...]]]> A talk today in the CS department on open problems in bioinformatics and hope to entice some computer scientists to work on more of the problems here. Here are the slides in PDF and on SlideShare.

I also had a chance to present some work at UCLA in their Bioinformatics series and the PDF and SlideShare are available.

Wordle for [...]]]> Making some signs for the doors to offices.  Here’s a Wordle plot from abstracts of last 7 years of papers. Tip the hat to M. Dunham for the idea to make it part of the lab signs.

Wordle for StajichLab (2009)

Yah!  Freezers, fridges, ordered.  A few lab compute servers are being placed.  Slowly getting things up [...]]]> To the newly finished Genomics building on campus.  Our (well only me still ) move date in mid-September or when the office furniture is installed.

Yah!  Freezers, fridges, ordered.  A few lab compute servers are being placed.  Slowly getting things up and running.