Maintenance on wireless network

LTS will be working on the campus wireless network Monday, Nov 3, starting about 6 pm. See bulletin board for details.

Policy on postdocs

While searching the Brandeis web for something totally different, I stumbled across Brandeis’s stated policy on postdoctoral fellows. Might be worth a quick read if you’re a postdoc or faculty member.

http://www.brandeis.edu/osp/policies/postdocpolicy.pdf

dnastar-users mailing list

I created a new mailing list dnastar-users for those who use our group license for DNA* Lasergene.

Mostly this is so I can nag people to quit Lasergene so they stop using up licenses. Please quit Lasergene if you are not using it. Leaving it open all day is not acceptable.

Rotation Talks

Rotation talks by Biochemistry and Biophysics first-years today, Fri, 10/31/08 in Gerstanzang 121, 11:30am.

There will be pizza.

NIH gradually moving from PureEdge to Adobe forms

Now that you’ve gotten used to the PureEdge forms that NIH was using for electronic submission, they’re moving to use Acrobat forms instead.

• http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OH-09-001.html
• http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/

During the transition, be sure to check the program announcements to figure out which format you should be using.

Windows haters should be happy about this, I think.

Surplus lab supplies

Sue Paradis says she is cleaning up preparatory to the move, and has leftover stuff from Kalpana’s lab to give away:

• glass culture tubes (lots) from VWR, Fisher, etc + assorted caps
• small plastic scintillation vials
• dialysis tubing
• glass micropipets (1-5, 10, 20, 50 ul)
• gel equipment-assorted boxes, combs and leads
• glass plates for running bigger vertical acrylamide gels

Stuff is on a cart in the hallway outside Bassine 330

Elections

Tuesday is Election Day. Remember to vote. Finding your polling place.

If you are voting in Massachusetts, there are ballot questions on subjects you may find interesting (taxes, dope, dogs)