gilbertd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) (01/09/91)
DROSOPHILA INFORMATION NEWSLETTER Volume 1, January 1990 The Drosophila Information Newsletter has been established with the hope of providing a timely forum for informal communication among Drosophila workers. The Newsletter will be published quarterly and distributed electronically, free of charge. We will try to strike a balance between maximizing the useful information included and keeping the format short; priority will be given to genetic and technical information. Brevity is essential. If a more lengthy communication is felt to be of value, the material should be summarized and an address made available for interested individuals to request more information. Submitted material will be edited for brevity and arranged into each issue. Research reports, lengthy items that cannot be effectively summarized, and material that requires illustration for clarity should be sent directly to Jim Thompson for publication in DIS (see below). Materials appearing in the Newsletter will be reprinted, in unedited form, in the next issue of DIS. Material appearing in the Newsletter may be cited unless specifically noted otherwise. Material for publication may be submitted in any of the following formats - Macintosh Microsoft Word or MacWrite, MS-DOS WordPerfect, or text/ASCII file. Figures and photographs cannot be accepted at present. Send material, in order of preference, as E-mail (addresses below), on floppy disk, or as laserwriter or typed hard-copy (not bit-mapped). Technical notes should be sent to Carl Thummel, all other material should be sent to Kathy Matthews. The e-mail format does not allow special characters to be included in the text. We have made obvious substitutions in most cases (e.g. u for micro, B for beta). Both superscripts and subscripts have been enclosed in square brackets; the difference should be obvious by context. Bold face, italics, underlining, etc. cannot be retained. Please keep this in mind when preparing submissions. Drosophila Information Newsletter is a trial effort that will only succeed if a broad segment of the community participates. If you have information that would be useful to many of your colleagues, please take the time to pass it along. The editors: Carl Thummel Kathy Matthews Dept. of Human Genetics Dept. of Biology Univ. of Utah Medical Center Indiana University Salt Lake City, UT 84132 Bloomington, IN 47405 801-581-2937; FAX/5374 812-855-5782; FAX/2577 THUMMEL@MEDSCHOOL.MED.UTAH.EDU MATTHEWK@IUBACS.BITNET MATTHEWK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU *** To add your name to the Newsletter distribution list, send one of the following E-mail messages. Via Bitnet -- To: LISTSERV@IUBVM Subject: Message: SUB DIS-L Your real name Via Internet -- To: LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Message: SUB DIS-L Your real name LISTSERV will extract your user name and node from the E-mail header and add you to the list. Use your Internet address if you have one. You will receive confirmation by E-mail. If you are on the list and do not wish to receive DIS, or you want to remove a defunct address, replace SUB in the above message with UNS. The SUB command can also be used to correct spelling errors in your real name; the new entry will simply replace the old as long as it was sent from the same USERID@NODE address. *** DIN Vol. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS >Introduction to Drosophila Information Newsletter >How to subscribe to the Newsletter >TABLE OF CONTENTS >ANNOUNCEMENTS >DIS Vol. 70 - Traditional DIS >32nd Drosophila Research Conference >Corrections to Ashburner Drosophila Handbook and Manual >REQUESTS FOR MATERIALS >Clones needed for Drosophila genome project >DATABASES/COMPUTING >Integrated Drosophila Database >Drosophila genetic maps >Drosophila GENMAP database >IUBIO//Stock center stock lists >GENETIC NOTES >Conventions for the naming of genes and their alleles >TECHNICAL NOTES >Drosophila codon tables >A single base error in the pCaSpeR-Bgal polylinker >P element-mediated transformation of D. melanogaster using purified P element transposase >Targeted tissue-specific expression of genes in Drosophila - A P element expression system that uses the Gal4 activator >Whole mount in situ hybridization to imaginal discs using digoxygenin labeled DNA probes >Antibody staining of imaginal discs >Single-fly DNA preps for PCR; Inverse PCR >Topical insecticide test method for Drosophila >EQUIPMENT >Population bottle update *** You may also obtain vol. 1 of this newsletter by anonymous ftp to iubio.bio.indiana.edu, in subdirectory [archive.fly.news], as file dis-news.1 -- Don.Gilbert@Iubio.Bio.Indiana.Edu biocomputing office, indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405, usa