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From: achristensen@CRCVMS.UNL.EDU (Alan C. Christensen, Ph.D.)
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Subject: Drosophila faculty
Date: 16 Jun 1995 12:07:33 -0700
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In discussions of faculty hiring priorities, no doubt many of you have
heard comments such as "We already have enough Drosophila labs here".
Naturally, we all realize that Drosophila is not a field but an organism,
and that Drosophilists come in an impressive array of fields, but our less
enlightened colleagues don't often realize that (for example) a person
working on transcription factors in Drosophila and a person doing
population genetics with Drosophila are not actually working on the same
thing, and that a developmental geneticist working on Drosophila would
actually broaden and strengthen a Department rather than being redundant.

So my question is simple:  What arguments have been successfully used to
persuade a diverse group of biologists (including ecologists,
parasitologists, plant biochemists, etc.etc.) that another Drosophila
faculty hire is actually a good idea?

I would also like to collect information on various Departments around the
U.S. and list how many of the faculty work on Drosophila, in order to
demonstrate that a group of 3 or more P.I.s is actually healthy.

Please e-mail responses to me.  If anyone is also interested in knowing
what the responses are I can share them or post a compilation.

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