Fungal Evolutionary Genomics » travel http://lab.stajich.org/home Stajich laboratory at UC Riverside Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:08:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Back from Ireland http://lab.stajich.org/home/2010/03/back-from-ireland/ http://lab.stajich.org/home/2010/03/back-from-ireland/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:52:26 +0000 Jason Stajich http://lab.stajich.org/home/?p=356 I am back from a short trip to Ireland where I gave a seminar at National University of Ireland, Maynooth and spend some time with folks interested in evolution or fungi like David Fitzpatrick, James McInerney, Davide Pisani. I also learned about a new spinoff company from one of the faculty producing media that will help [...]]]> I am back from a short trip to Ireland where I gave a seminar at National University of Ireland, Maynooth and spend some time with folks interested in evolution or fungi like David Fitzpatrick, James McInerney, Davide Pisani. I also learned about a new spinoff company from one of the faculty producing media that will help Bee immune systems. In my chats with some of the faculty I found out that I had lots in common with Sean Doyle on Aspergillus and some basidiomycete genomics questions and also much in common with Gary Jones working on prions in yeast.  After my trip to Maynooth, I spent a few days in Dublin afterwards to see the town which included a visit with some Dublin yeast researchers Ken Wolfe and Geraldine Butler who took me out to see Newgrange.

I learned that there is an abundance of yeast research in Ireland.  In addition to the researchers there is a whole shop devoted to Yeast.
The Irish Yeast Co
And my visit to the Guinness Brewery at St. James Gate taught me that that Yeast is a national treasure in Ireland.
Yeast!
Complete with an important safe for insuring there are backup strains. I have to assume there is a -80 freezer somewhere in the Guinness complex holding old strains as well.
P1000438-20100309

Did you know one of the master brewers at Guinness was also the inventor of the Student’s T-test? Here’s the proof
P1000436-20100309

So it was great to visit and look forward to going back at least in 2012 when SMBE will be held in Dublin.

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[...]]]> Went from CA to OR to ID, MT, and WY for work (Bioinformatics symposium at Oregon State) and a little vacation.  Here are a couple of mushrooms and lichens seen along the way.

Amanita family Agaricus augustus Coprinopsis sp

Polypore Agaricus Coprinus on Bison dung

Puffballs Lichen

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