Dear Lars, I hope all is well with you and that you had a good Christmas and New Year. I am writing about two things. Firstly, I have to write a series of new lectures on plant domestication and would like to include some of your shattering stuff. Would it be possible to send me some of your slides to use for teaching? I want to talk about shattering and will have to make slides showing the genetic interactions, but of course you already have them with some nice photos too. Also, are you going to publish that stuff about the same amino acid change in Brassica and rice sometime soon? The second thing was to ask whether you were interested in giving a seminar here sometime. I was hoping to get a speaker for the 3rd or the 5th May, if you could make either of those dates. Best wishes, Brendan