GCAT Milestones

1998

• Hear Pat Brown (Stanford) talk at ASCB meeting.

1999

• First batch of 135 yeast chips from Pat Brown and Barbara Dunn (Stanford).

• 23 brave faculty sign up for bold new adventure.

• GCAT members discounts on 3DNA reagents.

• Establish GCAT-L listserv.

2000

• GCAT members GeneSpring software for free.

• MUE grant that purchases chip reader.

• GCAT official collaborators on SMD.

2001

• Students present results.

• Faculty submit grants to NSF and NIH.

• Lee Hood (Institute for Systems Biology) donates 200 yeast chips.

• Ellen Wisman (Michigan State University) donates 12 Arabidopsis chips.

• Fred Blattner (University of Wisconsin-Madison) donates 20 E. coli chips.

• Richard Bookman (University of Miami) donates 30 partial human and 20 mouse chips.

• Mark Salata (Gordon College) begins formal assessment.

2002

• 41 faculty sign up for third year.

• Davidson College purchases mini-DNA microarrayer.

• CSU system-wide program.

• Halophylic project at Northern Arizona University (Dick Shand)

• Kathy Takayama (University of New South Wales, Australia) launches DoGCAT pilot studies.

2003

• Laurie Heyer develops MAGIC Tool free microarray software.

• Hiram College Microbiology Identification Chip.

• Added Fly and Maize microarrays.

• Mike Boyle (Juniata College) offers protein chip scanning.

• Two GCAT faculty purchase microarray scanners.

• GCAT outgrows supplier's capacity.

• NSF-sponsored Best Pactices Workshop at ISB

2004

• NSF-Funded Microarray Workshop (July 2004)

• Bar Code microarrays piolot studies (Jef Boeke)

• HHMI Funds GCAT for Four Years!

• GCAT Collaborates with Washington University for Microarrays

• Propose Genome Sequencing Consortium in Collaboration with Washington University