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Several postdocs have joined the group in the last few months, though I’ve been remiss to make an announcement. Dr Sofia Robb, who completed her PhD at the University of Utah, joined the lab in August 2011 and has been working on the NSF funded Rice transposable element project in collaboration with Susan Wessler’s lab. She has [...] Congrats to graduate student Yizhou Wang who passed his qualifying exam today. We’re proud to have him through this hurdle and to continue working on his research into genome defense and silencing of transposable elements in Neurospora crassa. Jason and Yizhou at [...] Our community sequencing project at the JGI was awarded which will allow a consortium of researchers to sequence 1000 fungal genomes through the DOE’s Joint Genome Institute. The intention is to sample two species from every major lineage of Fungi. Some press releases on the project below and we will coordinate it through several websites including a [...] We wished postdoc John Abramyan a farewell and happy trails last week. He was the first postdoc to join the lab and completed a projects relating to Bd, chytrid cell wall genes, and some a gene regulation bioinformatics project. He also was main force in getting the experimental portion of our lab started when the group was [...] Welcome to two new programmers to the team working on FungiDB. Daniel Borcherding and Ragu Ramamurthy join us to work full time on the FungiDB project to support genomic data integration, website improvements, and supporting the system move from beta into production mode. We look forward to new improvements in the system and establishing a release cycle [...] Sofia Robb joined the lab this week to begin work as a postdoc scholar on genomics and bioinformatics aspects of studying transposable elements in Rice. She will also participate in developing teaching modules for the Dynamic Genomes course in collaboration with the Wessler lab. Sofia recently completed her PhD from the University of Utah working on [...] Edgar Medina has been visiting the lab for the last few months from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia to work on Batrachochytrium genome evolution. This past Friday he completed his Master’s degree, defending his thesis via Skype. Was quite fun to see him adeptly switched between Spanish and English in the Q&A period while showing [...]
We will be working on discovery of active transposable element discovery in three mosquitos thanks to a grant that began this year from the W. M. Keck Foundation. We will be using Illumina based resequencing of populations of mosquitos, RNA-Seq to study expression of genes and TEs to determine differences between active and silenced elements, bioinformatics to identify [...] Postdoctoral Research in Bioinformatics and Transposon Biology in Rice Position Description UCR undergraduate Jessica De Anda has been working in the lab this summer and Fall will be starting in the MARC U* STAR program at UCR. This program provides mentoring to students interested in pursuing a graduate degree in science and supports laboratory research during the school year and the summers. We’re excited she was selected to [...] |
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