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The Eicosanoid
Laboratory was officially born September 2000, after the
definitive arrival of Dr. Jesús Balsinde to the Institute
of Molecular Biology and Genetics (IBGM) of the University of
Valladolid. In the ensuing months, no one but Dr. Balsinde was
around, so a website at that time seemed of little use. To be
brutally honest, at that time there was not even a physical location
for the lab. Well, there was a physical location (i.e. a space
within four walls) but there was no lab at all. Construction
of the lab began July 2001 and was completed at the end of that
summer. Not all were disgraces at that time though. An office
and a fully functional computer (that meaning connected to the
world wide web) were available from the very beginning.
The first person
to join the lab was Yolanda Sáez, our technician, who
stayed initially from June to November 2001. She would re-join
in July 2002. Dr. María Balboa joined in November 2001,
after obtaining a Research Assistant Professorship from the Spanish
Research Council.
The first version
of our website was published on-line March 2002. Below you can
see how its main page looked like. A slightly different version
of the page, with white background and navy blue lettering would
follow a little bit thereafter. At that time the site was located
in the webspace provided by the IBGM. In May 2002 the site was
moved to a private server and got its own domain name.
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Version
1.0 -- Mar 2002-Sep 2002 |
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In July 2002,
Rebeca Pérez, our first grad student, joined the lab.
Version 2.0 of
this website, featuring a spanking new logo and a
lesser amateurish look was inaugurated Sep 2002 (pic below). Initially
a white background was used, but it would later be changed to
light blue in version 2.1.
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Version
2.0 -- Sep 2002-Feb 2003 |
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Version 3.0 saw
the light in March 2003. Almost everything was changed from the
previous version to this one. It would last until June 2003,
when the current version (4.0) was published. It goes without
saying that version 4.0 again changed practically everything,
including the logo. The one only thing that remains from the
very beginning is the pic showing the structures of arachidonic
acid and prostaglandin G2
on the front page.
With version
4.0, a News page was created to serve as a sort of blog (web
log) for this site. From this point on, the News page reports
on all the exciting novelties that this lab and the people who
form it get through. But before we finish with this brief lab
history, just mention that Roberto Melero, a prospective graduate
student, joined in June 2003.
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Version
3.0 -- Mar 2003-Jun 2003 |
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