Hello,

I'm a graduate student at Harvard, in Don Pfister's lab, and I'm interested in Neolecta.  Its season is coming, and so I'm putting out this request for collections of Neolecta (there's a great picture of it in Bessette et al, if you're not sure what it looks like).

Gregg Jedd and I are going to try to look at protein and gene expression in Neolecta, so I'll let you know what happens with the collections.

Gregg Jedd and I did some work on the Neolecta collections that Pete and Kitty Griffith and Kris Peterson made last year, and we found pretty good evidence that there are Woronin bodies in Neolecta (this supports TEM work that showed structures that look like Woronin bodies). We're both looking forward to doing more work on that.

Also, I have been looking at the Neolecta that you collected last year in Franconia, to see if I can find out if Neolecta has dikaryotic hyphae (like Taphrina), and also to get a sense of the nuclear condition of the spore and - for that matter! - all the tissue. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm trying to work out the nuclear staining protocol (I've used Giemsa).

thank you,
David

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E pur si muove                                  On action alone be thy interest

David Hewitt
dhewitt@oeb.harvard.edu
Farlow Herbarium
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138