Summer is finally here (although we’re predicted to have overnight frost this weekend, just in time to kill all the new plants).  Anyway, some recent updates from the lab’ and elsewhere…

PeerJ is now on PubMed, which means our paper is now listed!

If anyone knows how to fix a fatal error #323 on a Spectramax Gemini plate reader (tray is not positioning correctly, so it shoots a lamp-failure error), please let me know. We tried a new lamp and that didn’t work.

Apparently NIH director Francis Collins is requesting researchers to post their personal experiences of the impact of the federal budget sequester on Twitter.  Please keep it civil.

URMC is dropping server access for IMAP and POP3 this month, which sucks if you use a desktop email client that doesn’t support Outlook protocols.  I found a workaround called DavMail, and wrote a guide to implementing it here.

Our AJP Heart paper on mitochondrial KATP channels is now out.

Paul & Sergiy will be headed to the AHA BCVS meeting in July.

And lastly, congrat’s to our colleague Jola Skalska, who will be taking up a faculty position at Alfred University this fall.