Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne. The first session on Friday started with a talk by Frauke Melchior from the ZMBP in Heidelberg on SUMO. Apart from being interesting to work with, it also is good for some rather funny paper titles At the start, she gave a short introduction on the proterties of SUMO.

Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne. Just after lunch the next decision: Neurogenetics or Evolution? Here I went with the topic that is less far from my field, and attended the evolution session.

Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne. This time I had to decide between two parallel sessions for the first time at this meeting. Plant genetics or Development? Coming from plant molecular genetics myself, there perhaps was a ready-made decision, but I decided otherwise.

The second guest post from fellow science blogger Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Conference currently held in Cologne. The first session was all over the place in terms of topics. Starting off the meeting, Linda Partridge from the Institute of Healthy Ageing in London and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne told us about the Genetics of Ageing.

Another guest post from Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Conference in Cologne. Dusko Ehrlich fom Jouy en Josas in France started off the second session of the meeting. He is working with the MetaHIT project, which tries to do a metagenomic analysis of the human intestinal tract.

This is the first of several posts by guest science blogger Alexander Knoll, who will report from the Annual Meeting of the German Genetics Society. I will be back from my summer vacation on Sunday. Away from my usually blogging grounds at Alles was lebt at the German Scienceblogs, I want to bring you impressions from the Annual Meeting of the German Genetics Society in Cologne.

We did it. Yesterday was Science Online London, a conference about the online communication of science that took place at the Royal Institution. I hope that everybody that attended had a great time. You can see a lot of conference coverage on Twitter (hashtag #solo09) and in the FriendFeed Science Online London group.

Euan Adie in June announced the Streamosphere service on the Nascent blog: Welcome to the Streamosphere. His simple explanation of what Streamosphere does: The Nascent blog post explains Streamosphere in more detail, in another post from July Euan talks about some updates to the service. I've asked Euan a few questions to learn more about Streamosphere.1. Can you explain what Streamosphere is and does?

At SciBar Camp Palo Alto last month, Peter Binfield from PLoS ONE gave a very interesting presentation on Article-level metrics from the PLoS perspective. Particularly interesting was his announcement that PLoS journals will provide usage data (HTML pageviews, PDF and XML downloads) for all their articles in September.

Problem You want to distribute papers for a regular journal club in your department.Solution Create a group for your journal club in FriendFeed. You can create a either a private group, where only group member can read and post messages, or a public group that is open to everyone. Then invite all regular participants of your journal club to FriendFeed and make them join the group.

Regular readers of this blog know that I often talk about bibliographic management tools (most recently here and here), and it was probably for this reason that I was invited to an interesting full-day workshop last week at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library in London: Bibliographic Management meets Web 2.0 . The event was organized by science librarians Frank Norman, Nathalie Cornee and Betsy Anagnostelis, and was attended