Dear Gianna,

Ismael Rafols did very nice work some years ago on slugs with altered
aspect ratios. I don't know whether he is still working with CSMs these
days, but you could write to him and ask: [log in to unmask]

With best wishes,

Vidyanand Nanjundiah

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> On Sep 15, 2015, at 3:53 AM, Gianna <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> My name is Gianna Lishmund and I am an honours student in Paul Fisher's
>> lab.
>> I am working with the gene VPS35 and I have obtained mutants with
>> dramatic changes in the slug length to width ratio. I was curious to see
>> whether anyone else has come across this phenotype and what other genes
>> may be involved?
>>
>> Kindest regards,
>>
>> Gianna
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> Dear Gianna,
>
> basically, I have no idea about dicty. We are Physicists working with the
> slime mold Physarum Polycephalum. Especially we look at different
> morphologies and topologies
> during foraging. It turns out there is a special shape of the plasmodium
> really different form other stats when Physarum is starved.
>
> Do you know in which pathways VPS35 is envolved?
>
>
> In any case, since you deal with shape, and slime molds I would like to
> notify you about our upcoming
> workshop PhysNet in NYC this Dec 3-5. MAy be that is of interest to you
> and/or your lab.
> Submission ist still open for a few days despite todays deadline ;-)
>
> Check it out!
>
> http://physnet.bionetics.org/2015/show/home
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> Cheers
> HG
>
> P.S. I just see you are in Melbourne, a little far away for a Christmas
> trip.
>         Check out the Beeckmann group in Sydney!
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> Prof. Dr. Hans-Günther Döbereiner, Ph.D.
> Institut für Biophysik
> Universität Bremen
> NW1 Raum O4040
> Postfach 330440
> 28334 Bremen
> Germany
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> Tel.  +49 421 218 62305
> Fax. +49 421 218 98 62305
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