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Networking
Networking
has assumed many faces, among which those dealing with MANDALA are
highlighted:
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Standing L to R: Gail Kampmeier, Barbara Crandall-Stotler,
Ray Stotler,Dave Krayesky, and Jimbo Bray; seated: Bob Pollok
(former therevid-PEET databaser, now at SIU)
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 MANDALA
has been adapted for use with taxa other than therevids. Representatives
from other PEET projects [Ray Stotler & Barbara Crandall-Stotler
(liverworts), Southern Illinois University; Pam Arnofsky (aplacophorans),
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; Peter Hibbs (snipe flies),
Smithsonian Institution] visited our laboratory for training
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Stotler's group hired one of our undergraduate student aids
in their modifications of MANDALA. Another potential PEET
project (on microsporidia, L. Solter et al.) proposes to modify
MANDALA for its use.
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| Robin
Carlson (right, visiting Irwin lab for training) and Sally Regan,
part of the Schlinger acrocerid project, continue to use MANDALA
to catalog their dipteran spider parasitoids. Gaimari now uses
MANDALA to catalog the Lauxanioidea (Diptera). Other individuals
(Elden Neal, Southern Illinois University; Ed Dewalt & Kathy
Zeiders, Illinois Natural History Survey; Ebbe Nielsen, CSIRO,
Canberra, Australia; Lynn Hanson, SIRIC Librarian, INHS; Geoffrey
Bowker & Shubha Nagarkar, School of Library Science, UIUC)
were given demonstrations at UIUC and clones of MANDALA. |
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Others
such as Mark Wetzel (INHS) and individuals from the 4th International
Diptera Congress (Dr. Gerhard Baechli, Zoological Museum, Zurich,
Switzerland; Marc Pollet, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences,
Belgium; Thomas Pape, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden; Kai
Heller, Forschungstelle für Ökozystemforschung, Germany;
Matthias Buck, University of Ulm, Germany;) and the '98 Taxonomic
Databases Working Group meeting (Nick Parker & Richard Monk, USGS/Texas
Tech University, Lubbock, TX; Georgina MacKenzie, BIOSIS, U.K.; Ian
Reid, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia; Charles Hussey, The Natural History
Museum, London, U.K.) saw demonstrations and a poster of MANDALA and
received demo versions. Two people working at FileMaker, Inc. also
requested demo versions of MANDALA (Jeff Gagne & James Gudeli).
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