PSI-MR News

PSI Funding Opportunities

Are you interested in becoming involved with the Protein Structure Initiative? Funding opportunities for the next phase of of the Protein Structure Initiative, PSI:Biology, are now posted!

What's new with the PSI-MR?

• 11/19/09: During the holidays we will not be shipping plasmids between November 25th-30th for Thanksgiving break and December 23rd-28th for the Christmas holiday. If you place an order during this time, we will begin processing your order as soon as we return. Everyone at DNASU and the PSI-MR wishes you a happy and healthy holiday season!
• 11/13/2009: See our recently published paper in Nucleic Acids Research about the PSI-MR and the Expedited MTA process: Protein Structure Initiative Material Repository: an open shared public resource of structural genomics plasmids for the biological community
• 10/9/2009: Visit DNASU to see our new features: Plasmid of the Month, Functional Sleuth, and PSI-MR Empty Vectors (overview here)
• 10/9/2009: We have begun distribution at DNASU!
• 10/9/2009: Updated prices! Now plasmids for PSI researchers are only $26/plasmid and for all other researchers only $36/plasmid. See here for details.


• 6/15/2009: The PSI-MR has moved to Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute. Dr. Joshua LaBaer, Director of the MR, will be the Director of the Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics. See the news story here.

Upcoming Meetings

The scientific liaison for the PSI-MR will be attending and presenting at the following meetings:

• American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB): December 4-9, 2009
  San Diego Conference Center, San Diego, CA
  • Poster: Tuesday, December 8 - 12:30pm-2:00pm - Board #: 2065/B444
  • Workshop with the PSI SGKB: Using the Protein Structure Initiatives/Resource Centers to Enable Your Research
    December 7 - Tutorial F 5:45pm–7:15pm - Room 25A
• Biophysical Society Annual Meeting: February 20-25, 2010
  San Francisco, CA
• Enabling Technologies for Structural Biology: April 19-22, 2010
  Bethesda, MD
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB: April 24-28
  Anaheim, CA

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