Expanded capability!

We are in the process of setting up a small-scale molecular lab out here in the entomology division (extraction thru PCR cleanup). The first of a steady stream of boxes of equipment and supplies arrived outside my office this morning (containing a $2000 centrifuge, two sets of pipettes, and a vortexer). Hopefully we'll be doing our test runs by the end of January.

Catching up: ESA 2009

The annual Entomological Society of America meeting (ESA) was in Indianapolis this year. It ended about two weeks ago, but I'm playing catch up with the blog anyway. The lab was well-represented at the meeting by Taro, Grey, and myself. Grey presented a poster on his work on the genus Guyanobius. I gave the keynote lecture at the Coleopterists Society meeting on some of the new discoveries in Myxophaga and other wet rock beetles (insert: title slide).