My opinion piece on genetics teaching is in press at PLoS Biology.
The visiting grad student's paper on Gallibacterium anatis transformation is in press at the Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
The RA's first paper this year (on E. coli competence) is already published in PLoS One.
My short essay on 'Do bacteria have sex' has now appeared in a collection of essays titled Microbes and Evolution: The World that Darwin Never Saw, published by the American Society for Microbiology. (only $14.95)
And what about our GFAJ-1 #arseniclife paper? After receiving largely favourable reviews from Science we submitted the revised manuscript on April 13. Yes, that's six and a half weeks ago, and they still haven't reached a final decision. If our email queries had gotten any interesting responses I couldn't tell you about them, because we've been cautioned that correspondence between Science editors and authors is confidential and that alerting the press to a manuscript under review may jeopardize its acceptance.
"we've been cautioned that correspondence between Science editors and authors is confidential and that alerting the press to a manuscript under review may jeopardize its acceptance."
ReplyDeleteYou could always do it later, ala Fred Menger and Albert Haim.
http://tinyurl.com/6oobhxk
Science and Nature are both notoriously slow. Once, this darling trait almost set my former boss up for scoopage.
ReplyDeleteScience and Nature may be notoriously slow, but it's interesting that the Wolfe-Simon et al. manuscript was reviewed in less time than Rosie's response. Looking at Science's website, it was only 5 weeks and 2 days between receiving the GFAJ-1 paper and accepting it.
ReplyDeleteGood to see your other endeavors are moving along well though Rosie.