Friends visiting #cellbio2023 this year, I have something interesting to share. Come visit my talk at Minisymposium: Genome Architecture in Space and Time
Talk: Sunday, December 3, 6:05-6:20pm, Room 210C. Stowers Institute Jennifer Gerton

Issue 11 is now complete!

On the cover: mouse blastocysts were cultured and trophoectoderm was differentiated to highly polyploid trophoblast giant cells. DNA (DAPI/yellow), lamin B1 (cyan) and α-tubulin (purple). See Research article by Singh et al.

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Polyploidy in the placenta: Myc is having a (tropho)blast

Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Vijay Pratap Singh, Jennifer Gerton & colleagues Stowers Institute:

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Related talk: Building and Understanding the Human Pangenome youtu.be/ukopTzkfPVk. Given at Stowers Institute April 25, 2023 while on a collaborative visit hosted by Jennifer Gerton

Jennifer Gerton Tamara Potapova Leonardo had an awesome time working with Erik Garrison Andrea Guarracino on this project and we look forward to unraveling Robertsonian chromosomes with you!

Excited to announce the first view of human centromere variation! We completely sequenced all centromeres from a second human genome & compared them to those from the first complete human genome, uncovering new sequences, structures, & chromatin landscapes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please RT: *JOB ALERT*
We have an open post-doc position in our lab to study sister chromatid resolution during mitosis. PM for more info.
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Next week in Memphis: #MemPANG23 pangenome.github.io/MemPanG23/, a workshop on the theory and practice of working with lots of genomes. Join us online next Friday June 2nd from 9:00-16:00 (CDT/UTC-5) for 6 talks on pangenomics (webinar tennesseehipaa.zoom.us/j/92881122014?…)

My favorite T2T/Pangenome discovery so far: a multi-megabase inverted segmental duplication on the short arm of chr14 that explains the mechanism of Robertsonian translocations. Great writeup by Stowers Institute 'Answering a 50-year-old mystery' stowers.org/news/investiga…

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I am excited to share my work at the labs of Barna Lab and Jonathan Pritchard in collaboration with the amazing Theo Susanto, jeffrey spence, Naomi Genuth and Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong

“A comprehensive rRNA variation atlas in health and disease”
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New #research from the SaraH Zanders 🎃💀, published in eLife - the journal, has uncovered a selfish gene family that has survived for over 100 million years – casting new doubt on established beliefs on how natural selection and #evolution tackle these threatening sequences. bit.ly/3Snwpio

All #SRC speakers are invited to present tandem-talks with early career researchers from their labs

At the upcoming #StuckOnRepeat meeting in October, Jacob Mueller and Eden Dulka University of Michigan will co-present 'The Fruits of Chromosomal Conflict'

Register here: stowers.org/conferences/sr…

Do the short arms of heterologous human acrocentric chromosomes recombine? Thanks to the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium project, we can study such dark regions in the human pangenome, and... something is happening in the population! Check the preprint at biorxiv.org/content/10.110….

Have you registered for our upcoming Stowers Research Conferences? 14 talks will be selected from abstracts. Abstracts not selected for a talk will be invited to present a poster at one of two poster sessions. REGISTER TODAY! stowers.org/conferences/sr…

This sure is going to be a one of a kind meeting! My excitement level can be gauged by the fact that I postponed my trip to India (pending for 2 years) and Durga puja (pending for 5) for this meeting! Am honored to co-organize this with Jennifer Gerton SaraH Zanders 🎃💀 & Scott Hawley

This meeting focuses on repetitive regions of genomes (TEs, satellites, rDNA, centromeres, gene families, etc) and has a great lineup of speakers. Many more to be selected from abstracts.

Gerton lab Stowers Institute is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to study female reproductive aging, long term collaboration with NU Duncan Lab, please RT shar.es/aWPA8g

Scientists in the Telomere-to-Telomere ( #T2T ) consortium have published the first complete, gapless human genome sequence. This can lead to a better understanding of our genomic variations and provide insight for missing heritability and human disease. genome.gov/T2T

Read our profile on Adam Phillippy to learn more about his exciting career and how it led to completing a project that could provide a lot of new insight into missing heritability and human disease! go.usa.gov/xzE9D