39th FACT: U of G has more than 800 Year microcomputers available for Ar GUELPH student use. Volume 39 No. 26 University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario July 12, 1995

FIRST GLANCE Candidates speak Three short-listed candidates for the position of dean of gra

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"I should have taken !he watch.~ librarian. The following areas will be closed between 9:50 a.m. and 12: JO p.m. on these days: the Wel- lington County Room, Media Re- sources, the library administration 00 and reference service points. The $750. information desk will be open for limited reference assistance. Circulation and reserve service REBATE PSA compact signed points will be open with limited for Graduating Students borrower assistance at the Circu- President Mordechai Rozanski and Ruth Gillespie, chair of the Professional Staff Association, sign a lation and Interlibrary Services Call for details: compact that commits the association and the University to collegial co·operation. (See story, page 1). desk. Pholo by Margaret Boyd, University Communications id~ Wellington All members of the -University eommunity are invited to attend VJkJ Motors Ltd. the presentations. in the Guelph Auto Moll • Michael Ridley of the Univer- LETTERS sity of Waterloo will speak July 12 at JO a.m. in Room t 13 of the MacNaughton Building. 822-8950 • Virginia Gillham of Wilfrid Come and (re)discover the Arboretum Laurier University will speak To begin the Arboretum's 25th- uted to the success of the day - make good use of their wonderful July 13 at 10 a. m. in Mac- Advertise With Us! anniversary celebrations, the re- those who shared their talents and ''backyard," to walk the trails, ex- Naughton I 13. cently formed Arboretum auxil- gave their time. But we especially plore the natural areas and enjoy • Richard Malinski of Ryerson iary organized an anniversary thank our guests for their interest the plant collections and 1he tran- Polytechnic University will open house June I 8, which coin- and enthusiasm. We hope that quillity of the new David G. Porter speak July I 4 at JO a.m. in cided with Alumni Weekend, Fa- everyone will return often to memor.ial Japanese Garden. Room t714oftheOVCLearn- ff you or your department/unit ther's Day and tho hottest Sunday wa1ch the Arboretum growing and Come and discover (or redis- ing Centre. 0 would like to advertise in the ~ of the year! changing, not just with the years, cover) us. following publications, contact: 1 The event was enjoyed by but with the seasons as well. Vicki Gojanovich alumni, members of the local We also hope that members of Janet Dalgleish Correction Advertising Co-ordinator community and visitors from far- the University community will Auxiliary convenor University Communications ther afield. For some, it was their In the June 28 issue of..At Guelph, 824-4120, Ext 6690 I Fax 824-7962 first encounter with the "jewel" in an ineorrect e-mail address was Monday· Thursday given for new Board of Governors 8:30 a.m. - 4~ p_m_ the University's "crown." Others Roots of student-athlete returned after a Jong absence and member Diane Boyd of the library. •:· At Guelph .;. Alumnus The correct address is ·l Gonvocation Special Edition were impressed by the transfor- mation from an open field to a site program date back to '70s [email protected]. 0 •:· Reseaich Magazine ~ •:• Uot ?Telephone r.rectory • of considerable horticultural, bio- I read with interest the June 28 At topics such as study skills, time ... o.v.c. Crest • logical and ecological signifi- Guelph article "Transition Pro- management and assertiveness ·:·Insert Service Available cance. gram Gives Student Athletes a training. Obituary ~'°""'...... ~~ ..... --~~ We thank everyone who contrib- Sporting Chance." 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UGSA ratifies agreement

The U of G Staff Association (UGSA) voted unanimously last week to rati fy a new collective agreement with the University. Negotiations on the agreement, which runs until the end of the social contract March 3 1, 1996, began in April 1994. Agreement was reached following concili- ation. "We' re very happy to get an agreement with the Universit y this year," says UGSA president Dave Robinson of the Department of Biomedical Sciences. "Every- one on our negoti ating team worked hard to gel the agreement that we did, and we see the changes th at were made in our contract as signifi cant in tenns of SPC members gather improving job security for the as- sociation." Members of the Strategic·Planning Commission gather for a group Donna Woolcott and Jack MacDonald. Fourth row: Brian Pettigrew, photo at a recent reception hosted by president Mordechai Rozanski John Roff, Wayne Marsh, Pat Hoare, Michael Keefer and George to recognize their contributions to the University. Front row, from left: Penfold. Absent: Donald Cockburn, Doug Dodds, Hugh Earl, Fred Joint committee Barbara Abercrombie, Andre Auger and Diane Boyd. Second row: Evers, Madie F0r0re, Pat Gentry, Michael Hoy, Derek Jamieson, Bruce Anderson, manager of SPC chair Bev Kay, John Barta, David Josephy and Trish Walker. John leatherland, Murray McEwen, Bryan McKersie, John Miles and employee relations, says the Uni- Third row: Gerrit Bos, Nigel Bunce, Derek Bewley, Connie Rooke, Garry Round. Photo by Martin Schwalbe versity is also pleased that a new collective agreement was success- fully negotiated and unanimously ratified by the Staff Association. Printing services centralize in University Centre "Over the next few months. a joint UGSA and University committee The presses are rolling in the new facility will provide faculty, stu- there's good news for students shifts, says Round. will be meeting to try to resolve a centralized quarters of Express dents and staff with ·~op-notch who bum the midnight oil-serv- A security system is in place for number of significant and highly Copy and Graphics in the Univer- service," he says. ice will be available at the facility faculty who use the service for complex. issues that remained un- "Express Copy and Graphics is sity Centre. from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Customers examinations. And Docutech is resoJved during the negotiation Located next to Peler Clark Hall a service organization whose fo- in the MacKinnon Building can linked in10 a high-speed scanning process." he says. in the basement of the centre, the cus is the community and as such drop orders off al the porter's system in the booksrore thal stabi - In other campus negotiations. facility boasts same-day service, will strive to maximize conven- desk, where there will be two lizes the quality of hard copies by the Canadian Union of Public Em- extended hours of operation and ience, accessibility and af- pickups and deliveries daily. Traf- archiving them as digital masters ployees Local 391 3 has requested competitive prices, says Garry fordability for all," says Round. fic from other areas on campus on an optical cli sk. conciliation to try to reach fi rst Round, director of Hospital- "We are dedicated to meeting will be monitored with an eye to Visitors to the newly revamped collective agreements for Unit I ity/Retail Services. deadlines and improving the qual- expanding this service, Round print services will find the opera- (graduate teaching assistants) and Representing the final step in the ity of production and service on says. tion more visible thanks to the centralization of print services on campus." Access to Express Copy and Unit 2 (sessionals). installation of a large service win- campus that began last year, the When it comes to accessibility, Print Services is also available Anderson says that negoti ations through lhc campus high-speed dow and more overhead lighting. on fi rst collective agreements usu- network. Round says. all y take anywhere from 18 to 24 This c onvenie nce will be The facility will be particularly months to complete. Negotiations Collaboration makes matched in the shop itself, which visible Aug. 29 when it hosts an between lhe University and Local has the only public- access open house for the University 391 3 began in January. Docutech printer in the city. The community. Express Copy and Concilia tio n mee tings a re jazz festival sing shop can produce up to a quarter Graphics can be reached at Ext. scheduled for July 25 and 26 for of a million copies a day over two 3496. 0 units I and 2 respectively. 0 by Keritb Waddington this year by grants from the On- University Communications tario Arts Council, the Downtown Just duet! Board of Management and the That's the philosophy behind U City of Guelph, in addition to a of G 's collaboration with the city number of Guelph businesses. again this year to stage the second Barton believes this support is annual Guelph Jazz Festival. indicative of appreciation for the Dedicated to promoting an ap- festival and the community- preciation of jazz, fostering a minded focus it works hard to sense of community and rejuve- nating the downtown core, the fes- maintain. tival is expected to attract hun- "It seems that people in Guelph dreds to a variety of local venues. were waiting for jazz to come to Running Sept. 7, 8 and 9, it again the city," she says. "The innova- leads into the Eden Mills Writers' tive and intimate nature of the fes- Festival Sept. 10, enabling both tival appears to be answering a events to benefit from each other, need that existed for this kind of says Judy Barton, a recent MA cultural event." English graduate who is publicity Headlining this year's program agent for the jazz festival. are Toronto Outist and saxophon- Collaboration is what makes this ist Jane Bunnett and saxophone event a community festival in the truest sense of the word. says and violin duo Ned Rothenberg Barton. "Not only do a number of and Mark Feldman. The Univer- people from the University and sity Club will again host the open- the city work together orgaruza- ing perfonnance, and there will be tionally, but there are also venues concerts on campus during orien- both on campus and downtown," tation. A free six-hour concert she says. "Local and provi~cial will be held in St. George's MacDonald says goodbye support also helps keep pnces Square on Saturday afternoon. low, so we can keep accessibility Showing a ballooning interest in parades, retiring academic vice-presid~nt Jack MacDon~ld leads t~e Tickets are expected to go on high." . way to a picnic held in his honor June 29 on Creelman Plaza. Just behind to MacDonald s left are his Fund-raising efforts by festival sale by mid-August. For more in- wife, Lillian, and son Mark. The VP retired June 30 after 20 years at U of G. Photo by Martin Schwalbe organizers were supplemented formation, call 837-1'.335. 0 4 At Guelph I July 12, 1995 Minitubers aren't small potatoes Tissue culture technology improves seed potato industry

by Anne LeBold nally, the growing tubers axe exposed to insects and Office of Research disease for at least six years, increasing their chances of becoming infected. U of G researchers are developing faster and cheaper The SPUD lab approached U of G for a better methods to grow tuber.; for Ontario's $2.5-miltion system. The response? Fast-multiplying, efficient seed potato industry. "minitubers." Prof. Vince Souza-Machado and researcher Ahmed Minitubers are smaller versions of tubers and can Ali of the Department of Horticultural Science are providing the province's seed potato upgrading and be grown from cuttings of potato plantlets in shallow distribution (SPUD) laboratory with a model for trays of artificial soil in a greenhouse. Because they growing tubers or seed potatoes. The reseaxchers' can be grown in the greenhouse , minitubers replace method saves grower.; and the SPUD lab time and two of the SPUD lab's former steps - growing the money in seed potato production. As a result, the lab plants in pots and in the field. is turning out tonnes of tubers. Using the minituber system has several advantages. ''We're providing the know-how, and the SPUD lab • Artificial soil and trays are cheaper than using soil applies our new concepts in a practical environment and pots. on a laxge scale," says Souza-Machado. ''The result • Minitubers are easier to transport to the field than of our teamwork is virus-free tubers, fas ter than they plants. could be grown before." • Production is year-round because the plantlets are The SPUD lab sells tubers to Ontario seed potato multiplied in test tubes and the minituber.> are farmer.; to plant and multiply. They, in tum, sell their grown in the greenhouse. tubers to potato farmers . • Minitubers can be planted in the field earlier than Under their traditional system, SPUD lab co-ordi- nator Sam Squire and manager Becky Hughes grew plants, so they grow longer and have higher yields. potato plantlets in a test tube in the lab, then took the • Because the greenhouse protects from insects and whole plantlet and put it in a pot of soil until it was viruses in the fall and winter and has optimum big enough to be transplanted to the field. conditions of light, temperature and moisture, it Once in the field, each plant produced about five yields a high-quality minituber. tubers underground. These were then sold to seed • The larger quantities of high-quality minituber.; potato farmer.>, who planted them and harvested from the greenhouse multiply at a faster rate in the Hanging in there: Sheet metal worker Brad Johnson takes the plunge them the following year. The tubers were tested for field. That means seed potato farmers can produce to work on the ventilation system in the library . disease and, if they passed, were planted again. The the same number of tubers in fewer field genera- harvest/test/replant process was repeated for six tions, which reduces their exposure to viruses and years, until the tubers had multiplied enough to be increases tuber quality and production efficiency. certified and sold to potato grower.;. The U ofG researcher.;' and the SPUD lab's team- Maintenance staff There axe problems associated with thi s method. Each step in cultivation was limited to the growing work has caught the competition 's eye - New season , so a crop of tubers could take up to eight Brunswick tuber producer.> want to adopt the SPUD reach new heights years - six with the farmer and two with the SPUD lab's minituber techniques. lab. Jn addition, it's difficult to transport delicate This research is sponsored by the Ontario Ministry by Kerith Waddington valved," he says. plants to the field without damaging them. And fi - of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affair.;. D University Communications Because he had previously taken Some people will go to any lengths a course offered by Superior to do a good job. Safety for maintenance workers That's true of Brad Johnson, a on campus, Johnson says he felt Transgenic plant field tests continue sheet metal worker in the Struc- confident about being lowered and hoisted by Hall (who donated tural Shop who was recently low- by Kersti Kahar bicide, allowing for more effec- monly grow around it. By insert- his time and equipment) while be- ered five fl oor.> (about 65 feet) in Office of Research tive weed control. ing a foreign gene into the ing handed tools by Powell a duct chase in the library- using Alfalfa is being treated with two canola's DNA structure, the plant through supply panels on each equipment similar to rock-climb- potential stress-tolerance genes is able to withstand the herbicide. floor. There were some problems New varieti es of transgenic plants ing gear - to work on the venti- - one (alcohol dehydrogenase) These genes were recently ap- with movement of the sling, says are being field tested this summer lation system . from a relative of canola and one proved for "unconfined release" Johnson, but otherwise the project at the Elora Research Station. The library's duct system is the (superoxide dismutase) from a after a lengthy study by Health came off without a hitch. Faculty from the Department of means by which air is circulated relative of tobacco. And canola is Canada, Environment Canada and "Although working on the as- Crop Science are growing trans- throughout the building. A pre- being treated with microbial Agriculture and Agri-Food Can- signment itself was not unusual, genic canola, alfalfa and soy- liminary air-quality study done by the method by which it was ac- beans. The testing is designed to genes that aid hybrid seed produc- ada, says Hume. That clearance Physical Resources called for its complished certainly was," he see how the plants - which are tion. for release means varieties con- overhaul , but access to the system says. "This was a job probably typically developed in laborato- Two recently developed strains taining these genes can be sub- is limited. The Kitchener-based every kid would want to have." ries - perform when exposed to of canola, treated with genes ex- jected to unrestricted testing with Superior Safety Company, work- Hygiene safety officer Cathy natural stresses such as weather tracted horn yeast culture, demon- more conventional strains of ing with Bnvironmenta1 Health Novosad - on site to ensure the and predator.>. strate a marked tolerance to cer- canola. and Safety, came up with the idea safety of staff - has words of "Researchers at Elora have been tain popular commercial Although no transgenic canola of lowering someone into the praise for Johnson. "Although te sting genetically engineered herbicides, says Hume. These her- will be planted in Ontario this ducts. Brad is used to work that is physi- crops since 1989, evaluating the bicides would normally kill the year, sma11 amounts will be grown The work was completed by ca ll y demanding, he deserves plants' performance under field canola, owing to the plant's close commercially in Western Canada Johnson, co-worker David Powell credit for hi s outstanding efforts conditions," says Prof. Dave relation to many weeds that com- on a trial basis, he says. 0 and Charlie Hall of Superi or on this job," she says. Hume, chair of the Department of Safety over two days this spring. Novosad doesn't cx pec[ thi s Crop Science. Johnson believes this is a "stunt" type of work to be performed very "All procedures adhere closely no one has ever done here before. often, but notes that the Electrical to the guidelines issued by the F acuity to speak at first "This was certainly a firs t fo r me, Shop has since purchased the plant health directorate of Agri- but everything was done very same non-conductive gear for culture and Agri-Food Canada to poultry welfare conjerence safely, so there was no danger in- work in confined spaces. 0 minimize any threat that trans- genic plants might pose to each Three Guelph faculty will present Hens" Aug. 13 during a session on other or the environment." papen> at the First North American cage and equipment designs. Transgeni c plants are those Symposium on Poultry Welfare in The conference is modelled after Three win SSHRC awards whose genetic makeup has been Edmonton in August. the annual European Poultry Wel- altered; specifically, a gene from Prof. Ian Duncan, director of the fare Symposia and geared towaxds Three Guelph students have been Work: Personal and Organiza- another plant or organism has Centre for the Study of Animal improving living conditions for awarded doctoral fellowships in tion al Outcomes." Her adviser is been inserted into their DNA Welfare in the Department of Ani- laying hens and broilers in North the Social Sciences and Humani- Prof. Kevin Kellaway. structure. Gene transfer provides mal and Poultry Science, will America, says Duncan, who is in- ties Research Counci l' s 1995 na- Sylvestre is conducting research many new opportunities to im- speak on "Behavior and Behav- volved in organizing the sympo- tional competition. into new way s of measuring and prove plants' growth rate, resis- ioral Needs" Aug. I 2 as part of an sium. Psyc hology students Kimberly conceptu ali zin g "Adolescents tance to disease or toxic agents, overview of welfare considera- The tal ks are aimed at answering Rogers and John Sylvestre and Coping with Chronic Stress" un- and other properties that contrib- tions. growing concern s about animal philosophy student Keith Culver der the supervi sion of Prof. Ben ute to crop productivity. Prof. Richard Julian, Pathology, welfare and the accompanying are three of the 526 Canadian stu- Gottlieb. This summer's agenda for will examine "Rapid Growth need for scientifically based infor- dents awarded the fellowships lhis Cul ver, a participant in the Guelph 's team at Elora involves Problems: Ascites and Skeletal mation , he says. Issues to be cov- year for demonstrating hi gh Guelph-McMaster joint doctoral evalu atin g several innovati ve Deformiti es in Broilers" Aug. 12 ered include skeletal and respira- standards of academic achieve- program in philosophy, is re- transgenic lines, including soy- in a session on health and hus· tory problems, feather pecking, ment. The awards are valued at searching "Authority and Nonna- bea ns treated with mi crobi al bandry consid erations. Prof. transportation and induced moult- $14,436 a year. tivity in H.L.A. Hart's Philosophy genes derived from yeast culture. Frank Hurnik, Animal and Poul- ing. Roger.; received the fe llowship of Law." His advi ser is Prof. Bill This is aimed at increasing the try Science, will outline "Experi- For more information. call for her research on "Violence at Hughes .. D plant's resistance to a certain her- ences with an Aviary for Laying Duncan at Ext 3652. D At Guelph I July 12, 1995 5

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Vet's poetry draws on human connections

by Margaret Boyd to stay sane." Today, he is mostly University Communications inspired by "the Limits of science in coming to terms with the rich- he Impossible Uprooting. ness of real life." T the fifth book of poetry by Waltner-Toews believes that Prof. D avid W a ltner-Toews, poetry is a community activity, as Population Medicine, draws on opposed to a solitary one. and for the human connections in both this reason, he likes to perfonn cultural and ecological communi- poetry or hear it read aloud. ties. The poems explore the need "I tend not to write for a literary to understand links between these audience," he says. " A lot of my communities. performances are in front of vet- Diverse in their imagery, the po- erinary students, church groups ems move from ships at Santa and birthday parties. Poetry is like Cruz to family pets, from the Getting, a feel f~r the environment on campus is Rick Su~st rum , the ;~~~y a~p~inted field manager for music: it's a way of communicat- author's memories of Winnipeg to Guelph s Capacity Enhancement Project in east central and southern Africa. ing among different people." old friends. But what they have in Photo by Kerith Waddington, University Commun!caUoos Waltner-Toews's fo ur earlier common is a celebration of Li fe. poetry collections are That Ines- Most of the 42 poems in the col- African project names field manager lection are new. although some capable Animal, The Earth Is One have been "pulled out and revised Body, Good Housekeeping and from earl ier collections," Endangered Species. He is also by Kerith Waddington and the research papers that will be produced will Waltner-Toews says. the author of One Animal Among University Communications generate useful information about Africa's environ- Some of the poems draw on his Many: Gaia, Goats and Garlic The recent selection of a field manager for U of G •s ment and natural-resource sector." Mennonite roots and are set in the and Food, Sex and Salmonella: three-year environment/natural-resource planning Sunstrom has worked in Botswana on behalf of the fictional voice of Tante Tina. an Tlte Risks of Environmental Inti- and management project in east central and southern Canadian International Development Agency, in the old Mennonite woman with natu- macy. Africa has brought the project closer to realization. Sudan and Sri Lanka on behalf of Plan International ral insights into human nature. With Guelph graduate Andrea Rick Suns trum of Ottawa, a 197 I graduate of (an international non-governmental organization) Others are decidedly ecologically Ellis, he wrote Good For Your Kemptville Agricultural College who has worked and in Malawi with the World University Service of inspired, but they are always filled Animals, Good For You: How to Canada. He has also travelled extensively in south- extensively in southern Africa. will manage the pro- with human experience and hope. Live and Work with Animals in ern Africa as a program officer with the Association ject implementation over the next three years. Work- Waltner-Toews has been writing Therapy and Activity Programs of Canadian Community Colleges. ing out of the field office at the Unive,.ity of Cape- poetry since Grade 5. His fi" t and Stay Healthy. Project director Prof. Nonita Yap, University poem was written as a punishment town in South Africa, he will be responsible for He has contributed to Fiodle- School of Rural Planning and Development, believes for talking in class, but the teacher administrative and supervisory tasks such as hlring head. Grain, Harrowsmith, Miss Sunstrum's selection is one ofsevera l important new enjoyed his poem so much thal field staff and setting up training programs in the developments in what is becoming a major initiative she had it published in the Mani- Chatelaine, New Quarterly and area. in environment management. toba Teachers' Society Journal. other publications, and his writing He explains his impetus for being involved. A memorandum of unde,.tanding between U of G "I got a double message," recalls has appeared in numerous an- "I like working in the area of environment and I and the University of Capetown is currently being Waltner-Toews. "Poetry is pun- thologies. Me11no11ite Blues, a the- know the region of southern Africa," he says. '1t's drafted, and Yap expects the ftrst competition for ishment, but it can also make you atrical adaptation of his poetry. an interesting ecosystem, possessing flora and fauna research grants to be held this December. Anyone famous." was staged in 1985. that deserve the world's attention to preserve and interested in getting involved in the project is invited His first academic degree was in The Impossible Uprooting is protect. But the benefits work both ways. The project to pick up an information brochure in Room 016 of literature. and he has always writ- published by McCle lland & will open the Unive,.ity of Guelph up to the world, Johnston Hall or to call Ext. 3773.0 ten poetry ''for a sense of balance, Stewart Inc. 0 Cell sorter enhances research in plant, animal biotechnology

by Jell' Stuart crospores. Microspore culture leads to the of bull sperm. The new method will be used average more small granules than resistant and Anne LeBold creation of genetic homozygotes, or "pure" for rapid quality assessment of the fresh or varieties. Small starch granules are more Office of Research lines of plants, with the same genetic infor- froren/thawed semen produced by Cana- easily degraded than larger ones. The flow An instrument that diagnoses diseases such mation as the parent. Microspore culture dian artificial insemination centres. cytometer allows them to determine the size as cancer and AIDS is finding new applica- technology eliminates variability in crop va- • Biomedical sciences professor Anne distribution of starch granules in different tions in plant and animal biotechnology re- rieties so that farme" get high-quality. ge- Croy and research associate Betty-Anne potato varieties. search at U of G. netically uniform crops. McBey are using the cell sorter to study a Jn light of the profusion of researchers Called a flow cytometric cell sorter, the • Profs. Ann Gibbins and Rob Etches and special subset of "natural killer" lympho- using the cell sorter, Pauls sees a promising machine counts, identifies and sorts cells graduate students Gord Speksnijder and cytes (immune cells) that grow in the uterus future for the new technology. like a high-tech coin sorter. In AIDS- and Mansoor Mohammed, Animal and Poultry ofpregnant women. The purpose of the cells '"The flow cy1ometric cell sorter is and cancer-detection tests, the machine identi- Science, use the facility to help develop is unknown, so Croy and McBey are study- will be a critical resource for the research fies and sorts unhealthy or mutant cells transgenic chickens. The cell sorter is used ing the same cells in pregnant mice to un- carried out by students. technicians and from normal cells. At Guelph, its potential to sort genetically engineered cells from derstand their function. At diffe rent stages 01her researchers here at Guelph," he says. has extended into new research initiatives normal ones. The transformed cells are in- in pregnancy. some of these immune cells "It's an invaluable tool." 0 such as plant-breeding methods and trans- jected into chicken embryos, which grow change. so the researchers use the cytometer genic poultry production. into adults with pre-programmed genetic to separate the changed celJs from the paren1 crour ability to carry out our respective characteristics. Some chickens that contain cells. Health Canada research projects depends on access to this cells sorted by the flow cytometer have al- • Microbiology professors Roselynn state-of-the art instrument," says Prof. ready hatched. Stevenson and Lucy Mulharia, working Peter Pauls, Crop Science, the principal • Postdoctoral researcher Glen Cassar, with graduate student Neil Blackbum and revamps funding applicant in a group of I t Jabs that applied Animal and Poultry Science. is studying research assistant William Moreno, are us- Health Canada's National Health Research successfully to the Natural Sciences and turkey eggs that can develop into embryos ing the cell sorter to identify different kinds and Development Program is reviewing its Engineering Research Council for funding without being fertilized, a phenomenon of immune cells. To compare the immune strategic directions and funding priorities to buy the cytometer. "And we're encour- called parthogenesis that occ"" naturally in cells in fish with those of mammals, the over the next year. (n the meantime, the aging students to get involved and learn some turkeys. He's found a mixture of hap- researche" are taking cells from fi sh and October 1995 competition will serve as a staining them in such a way that the different more by using this device," he says. loid cells (containing a single set of chromo- transition call for proposals that focus on somes) and diploid cells (with a double set types will end up in different vials after The flow cytometer uses lasers to identify policy ~ re l evant research in selected areas. travemng through the cell sorter. cell types, based on the cells' ability to of chromosomes) in the unfertilized turkey This competition will operate under a embryos. He's using the flow cytometer to • Profs. Alex Marangoni and Rick Yada deflect and absorb light. Operated in tan- limited budget and will discourage the sub- fi nd the ratio of haploid cells to diploid cells and graduate student Eileen O'Donoghue of dem with a powerful microcomputer. it mission of large-budget proposals. Con- in each embryo. the Department of Food Science are deter- sorts the cells into like groups that can be ferences, workshops and off-cycle projects further analysed or cultured individually. •The flow cytometer is also being used for mining the size distribution of starch gran- will be considered only on an exception The cytometer is being used for a variety a collaborative project with Guelph-based ules in potatoes. When potatoes are stored basis. Letters of intent are being requested of projects. animal genetics company United Breeders in cold temperatures over the winter. starch •Pauls. research associate Jan Brazolot and Incorporated (UBI). UBI researcher Tom breaks down to sugars. As a result. chips to identify high-priority proposals and graduate student Derek Schulze use the sys- Kraetsch is working wilh Brazolot and from the stored potatoes tum black when must be received by July 20. tem to study embryo development in tissue Pauls to develop a flow cytometric method they're fried. The researchers have hypothe- More information is available from the cultures of immature pollen cells called mi- for measuring sperm counts and viabilities sized that sensitive potato varieties have on Office of Research. 0 6 At Guelph /July 12, 1995

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A paper by School of Engineering comer, joined the faculty July I , spring. Douglas spoke on "Taking graduate student Mike Gregory 1974, from Brock University. To Charge: Planning and Develop- on continuous SWMM modelling mark these retirements, the De- ment Strategies for Sustainable has earned him the International partment of Physics is staging a Communities.'' Junior Scientist Award from the series of seminars Sept. 6 begin- Prof. Glen Van Der Kraak, Zo- Stockholm Water Symposium. ning at 1 p.m. in Room 113 of the ology, and Prof. Keith Solomon The award is an all-expenses-paid MacNaughton Building. A recep- of the Guelph Centre for Toxicol- trip to the August symposium, tion at the Whippletree will fol- ogy represented the Canadian which is the most important water- low. Anyone interested in attend- Network of Toxicology Centres SUMMER SPECIALS related event in the world. ing these events should call Ext. (CNTC) at the Endocrine Disrup- Two graduate students in the 2261 or send e-mail to rv@phys- tors Workshop at the U.S. Envi- Department of Philosophy have ics.uoguelph.ca. ronmental Protection Agency received the first Carr-Wiggin Prof. John Hubert, Mathemat- (EPA) last month in Minnesota. Canadian Criss Cross Award for the best papers ac- ics and Statistics, gave an eight- Solomon also attended an EPA by Walter D. Feener cepted by a conferenee or journal. hour short course on "Quantita- Superfund Workshop in Chicago Karen Houle won for her paper tive Risk Assessment" at the and the Society of Environmental on "Owning, Borrowing or Steal- International Statistical Sympo- Toxicology and C hemistr y ing: Intellectual Property and In- sium (Biometric Society) in Co- (SET AC) conference in Copenha- digenous Knowledge." Mani lombia last month. He also pre- gen. 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Graham of friends, colleagues and faculty, Linking Science: An International O'Brien presented research on the award is sponsored by the Conference on the St. Lawrence the penetration of pesticides into Guelph Philosophical Society. Ecosystem" in Cornwall this plastic pesticide containers. A reception will be held July 20 0 for Roy Lefneski, construction co-ordinator in Physical Re- sources, who is retiring after 11 years with the University. l'he re- Game theory focus of talks ception will run from 4 to 6 p.m. An international conference on tionary Games in Tenitorial Spe- in the University Club. Cost is $7. "Dynamic Evolutionary Game cies" and "The Evolution of RSVP to Connie Male by July 14. Money as a Medium of Ex- Theory in Biology and Econom- ACROSS DOWN 32. Hairpiece: sl. On Sept. I, three members of the ics" will run Aug. 15 to 19 at Wil- change." 33. Elicit Department of Physics with a frid Laurier University and U ofG. Aug. 18 sessions will run at 1. Peat bog 1. 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