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This genome announcement includes draft genomes from Claviceps purpurea s.lat., including C. arundinis, C. humidiphila and C. cf. spartinae. The draft genomes of Davidsoniella eucalypti, Quambalaria eucalypti and Teratosphaeria destructans, all three important eucalyptus pathogens, are presented. The insect associate Grosmannia galeiformis is also described. The pine pathogen genome of Fusarium circinatum has been assembled into pseudomolecules, based on additional sequence data and by harnessing the known synteny within the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex. This new assembly of the F. circinatum genome provides 12 pseudomolecules that correspond to the haploid chromosome number of F. circinatum. These are comparable to other chromosomal assemblies within the FFSC and will enable more robust genomic comparisons within this species complex.

Despite — or maybe because of — the insisting preoccupation with silence in Beckett’s work, it is a state that seems hard to reach. Noise is continuously interfering in one way or another. Introducing the notion of the ‘dramaturgical oxymoron’ that opens up a gap between two different modes of narration, this essay will argue that Beckett’s plays demonstrate the impossibility of ultimate silence, which lies outside the symbolic order. In this sense these background noises are similar to other disruptive signs, such as the scratch, which is a recurring motif in Beckett. What may seem a mere detail in Krapp’s Last Tape, a scratch on the girl’s thigh, inflicted by picking gooseberries, serves as a metaphor for the loss of completeness and one’s alienation from the world. In the voice, finally, the character is disembodied, virtualised. Existing of nothing but thin air, in Mouth’s ‘own’ words in Not I, the voice does not seem to belong to the body and gives rise to the alienating effect of what Derrida calls s’entendre parler. Although the French deconstructionist has never written on Beckett, his writings on the primacy of the voice and the opposing stance he distinguishes in Artaud probably say as much about Beckett.

Is er sprake van een stilistisch verband tussen literatuur en waanzinni_qe taal? Laurens De Vos, universitair docent in Theaterwetenschap, onderzoekt deze relatie in zijn arti­kel. Aan de hand van psychoana!),tische concepten van Jacques Lacan 9eejt De Vos een uiteenzettin_q over de taal van waanzin en welke plaats der_qelijke taal inneemt binnen of buiten de symbolische orde. Betekenis en betekenaar schijnen elkaar te hebben verloren. Alhoewel de ordenende principes van literatuur niet lijken te passen bij de chaos van de waanzinni_qe taal, ziet De Vos in de theatertekst Not I van Samuel Beckett een poetica die er sterke 9elijkenissen mee vertoont.

Biofouling has a major impact on the global shipping industry. The fouling demands extensive efforts to clean the fouled vessels, increases the expenses for the shipping companies and worsens a number of environmental problems, such as carbon dioxide emissions due to increased drag, or the transport of organisms outside their habitat. In the past, toxic paints were found to be the solution for this problem. The ban of TBT (tributyltin), because of its negative impact on the environment, has led to the research of several other alternatives. Until now, however, no other equally effective product as TBT has been found.Nowadays, scome scientific evidence points towards hydroacoustic antifouling systems. According to its manufacturers, hydroacoustic antifouling systems are an eco-friendly solution to biofouling on merchant ships. The system consists of transducers at the inner side of a ship's outer hull which emit acoustic ultrasound waves. The alteration of positive and negative pressure created by these waves result in cavitation bubbles. These bubbles make the hull an unattractive environment for the barnacles and mussels to grow on. The second working principle is resonation, capable of destroying single cell organisms, which are the feeding ground for fouling organisms. Studies have shown that the use of these acoustic antifouling systems are working well on specific frequencies, exposure time and amplitude. An hydroacoustic antifouling system is capable of keeping the outer platting of vessels free of the fouling barnacle Amphibalanus amphitrite. Therefore, a frequency of 23 kHz, an exposure time of 300 seconds and an amplitude of 20 kPa is the optimal configuration. (Shifeng, 2012). Before implementation of hydroacoustic antifouling systems, further research is still be done to investigate the impact of ultrasound on other marine life, as the frequencies used are within hearing range of sea mammals and pinnipeds.SHIFENG, G. (2012).A Study of Ultrasonic Effects on the Marine Biofouling Organism of Barnacle, Amphibalanus Amphitrite, Doctoral dissertation, National University of Singapore.