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The first version of the new dictyBase or DCR (Dicty Community Resource) will come soon

Rob Kay and Kees Weijer wrote a wonderful obituary for Jeff Williams published in Development and freely available tinyurl.com/2p8a4u76

The Dicty Stock Center will be closed from June 17 to June 24. Your orders will be prepared after the DSC reopens on Monday, June 27.

Dicty meeting in Stirling: Registration deadline is June 24. The abstract deadline is July 1st. dicty2022.weebly.com/registration.h…

Register for the 2022 Dicty Meeting in Stirling Scotland. Early bird rates end on May 16. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3scn8a3m

There is a press release for the work of Falk Hillmann and colleagues engineering Dictyostelium to produce cannabinoid precursors and other polyketides. leibniz-hki.de/en/press-relea…

Jeff was a pioneer of molecular genetics in Dictyostelium and a friend and mentor to many. He will be greatly missed. A fuller appreciation is planned at a later date. Rob Kay on behalf of Jeff's family, friends and colleagues.

We are very sorry to inform the Dicty community that Jeff Williams died on Saturday, January 8th, 2022 after a long battle with ill-health.

After 2 years off due to the pandemic, the 2022 international Dicty meeting is planned for 7-11th August 2022 in Stirling, Scotland. Mark the date for now. Happy Holidays!

We have a new Dicty development video on our website dictybase.org/Multimedia/dev… thanks to Marko Kaksonen a colleague of Thierry Soldati.

The DSC is closed from December 15, 2021, to January 2, 2022. Happy Holidays!

The DCR (Dicty Community Resource) will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, November 25/26.

A new and funded industry-linked PhD position is available at Robin Williams' lab at Royal Holloway University, of London UK. Investigation of cannabinoids as medicinal treatments. More information at dictycr.org/community/jobs

There is a new PhD position in the University of Potsdam, near Berlin / Germany, in a Dicty lab. dictycr.org/community/jobs

Download an iTasser annotation file of unknown genes (so far) created by students of R. Gomer dictycr.org/community/anno…

There is a new post-doc position with R. Huber at Trent University, Ontario, Canada dictycr.org/community/jobs

The 2021 Dicty conference in Croatia has been canceled and will be postponed to 2023

Dear Stock Center users, the DSC will be closed for the holidays from December 24, 2020 to January 3, 2021. Happy holidays everyone!

The DSC will be closed for Thanksgiving on November 26 and 27. Thanks for your understanding.

The DSC is now ready to receive Dicty strains, plasmids, or other material submissions. Please contact us before you send anything, and we pay for shipping dictybase.org/StockCenter/De…