Hello Vivoarts Students, Visiting Artists and Involved Peoples, Check out this video document:
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=4579567496694967354 We are still in Vivoarts process. A document of Our last lab, the transgenic quail and pheasant embryology lab, mixed with body performance, video documented and now edited by Zoot and Jeanette is now online for the Wide World... http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=4579567496694967354 I promised some history and we now have it. A document like no other. And, you are all bright and tweaked and engaged. Amazing! Almost one and a half hours.... Send it to film fests as a documentary feature, I will if you will: http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=4579567496694967354 MORE NEWS: So there is a call to help with the sectioning and staining of the two preserved transgenic embryos. The histology will be done at the end of the summer and I am looking for anyone from the class that is interested in helping 'hands-on' with the microtubule analysis of our embryonic art projects. So email me if you are interested in going back to Gorleaus in a month or two for this phase of Art/Science interaction. By the way, the plasmid we used in our homemade micro injectors for raw transfection in class has a name. Some students have been asking for the full name of our 'art' plasmid. She is called pDSRed-Dcl. The vector (transgene infectious agent) included in the plasmid is CMV (CytoMegalo Virus.) The Red stands for RFP+ (red flourescent protein positive.) RFP+ expression is what we seem to see in our sections so far. This means that the chimeric proteins (pDS and Dcl) should have fused in the genomes of some of the embryonic somatic cell genomes. Togetether, pDS and Dcl express for a microtubule protein that is quite disruptive when found in normal development. I will try to find out more about how studying the effects of microtube mutants aids in Medical Pharmacology and/or preventing birth defects. In class we used 20 doses of 3-4 micrograms of these plasmids. I think that pDSRed-Dcl also has online research presence and your college may be able to order more for you if you can find a scientist/mentor who is willing to sponsor you! Enjoy the film, Adam ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
