Sinorhizobium to Ensifer

This blog replaces the news page on my website. One major change I have made is changing all Sinorhizobium names to Ensifer. Ensifer is the earlier heterotypic synonym and thus takes priority (Young, 2003). This means that all Sinorhizobium spp. must be renamed as Ensifer spp. according to the Bacteriological code.

Reference:

Young J. M. (2003). The genus name Ensifer Casida 1982 takes priority over Sinorhizobium Chen et al. 1988, and Sinorhizobium morelense Wang et al. 2002 is a later synonym of Ensifer adhaerens Casida 1982. Is the combination "Sinorhizobium adhaerens" (Casida 1982) Willems et al. 2003 legitimate? Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 53, 2107-2110. (IJSEM Link)

Matt's Wedding

From left to right: Dave, Gareth, Matt, Dean, and Me at Matt's wedding

Bibliography database

My latest addition to my website is a HTML dump of my endnote bibliography database, currently this has 466 papers listed. These are some of the papers I will cite in my PhD thesis, however the list is incomplete.

If I have a paper missing that you think I should have read, please tell me about it.

10,000 Visits

My website http://www.rhizobia.co.nz has now had over ten thousand visits since August 15, 2003. Most popular are my rhizobia taxonomy page and my step by step modeltest guide.

Spam and Viruses

This graph shows the number of spam and viruses I have recieved over the last ten months.

Three Years

On the first of March 2002, three years ago I officially started my PhD thesis. Now it has officially ended, along with my pay.

Fortunately I am nearly finished the experimental work, and then will just have the writing to go.

Gmail invites

Gmail is a free web based email system that gives you 1000 MB of storage, but is invite only - currently you can't sign up. However, I now have 50 invites to give away. Leave me a message if you want one (with email address).

Skype

I found out today about an interesting program called Skype http://www.skype.com. It is a program that allows you to talk (actually talk not type) over the internet at very high quality. But its most interesting thing is that can call land line phones as well (for a few cents a minute). My Skype user name is: onco_p53

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. Normally it works pretty well but with the recent earthquake in the Indian Ocean, this article is receiving over 3 edits per minute. People are overwriting others changes.

Rauchen Verboten

On Friday New Zealand no smoking laws came in to effect. We celebrated by going out to the pub. It was nice coming back without the stink of smoke in your clothes and hair, no to mention the health benefits