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🎉 Congratulations Caroline Bendickson, a junior at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, on being selected as a prestigious Goldwater Scholar! 🎉 #UAH #GoldwaterScholar #ExcellenceInEducation Learn more : ow.ly/qu5A50REa26

The Amborella genome is a part of the Joint Genome Institute Open Green Genomes Initiative and the genomes are available on Phytozome phytozome-next.jgi.doe.gov/info/Atrichopo… phytozome-next.jgi.doe.gov/info/Atrichopo…

We are beyond proud of Caroline and her work in our lab HudsonAlpha on Trillium phylogenomics. Caroline is so deserving of the recognition as a Goldwater Scholar!

Leaving work today…

Join us next weekend for our Cheers to Alabama Barley tap takeover event at Stovehouse! Enjoy locally-brewed craft beer made with Alabama-grown barley and learn about the science from seed to sip lead by HudsonAlpha and collaborators!

The "NitFix" paper is finally out! Check out the latest and greatest phylogenetic hypothesis in the nitrogen-fixing clade (NFC), and how it suggests a complex homology behind symbiotic traits. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

In the most recent version of the ‘WA 38’ genome paper, we phased the chromosomes into parental haplotype bins. The first in any pome fruit genomes 🍎 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Probably the best envelope in the world arrived today The Daffodil DNA Project Botanic Garden, University of Dundee Oxford Nanopore UoD Life Sciences UoD Bioinformatics/Data Analysis Group The Royal Society #partnershipgrants Alex Harkess RHS Garden Wisley Alastair Culham Royal Society of Biology Tom Ireland I genuinely want to frame an envelope!

Wrapping up the Pacific stop of our DNA Learning Center “Summer of Oxford Nanopore” DNA sequencing for educators tour. At University of Hawaii at Manoa

#SMBE2024 want to hear some exciting talks about sex chromosomes?! Catch us tomorrow, July 8, at 15:50-18:10 in Costa Alegre to hear this fantastic line-up on the “Progress and challenges for understanding the molecular evolution of sex chromosomes across Eukarya”! @_ellie_cat

Introducing Chromo, our new package for performing differential analysis in chromosome regions. Chromo works with any type of quantitative data, including RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, and more. It will be available soon

Two papers in nature present a new genome editing technique that enables the insertion, inversion and deletion of long DNA sequences at user-specified genome positions. The approach may provide an easier method of genome editing. go.nature.com/3RGkI8M go.nature.com/3RHBvIs

📍Madrid, Spain Faculty Investigator Alex Harkess, PhD (Alex Harkess) and postdoc associate Sarah Carey, PhD (Dr. Sarah Carey) are participating in the XX International Botanical Congress this week! #IBC2024

The Jersey Daffodil Project: Integrating nanopore sequencing into classrooms improves STEM skills, scientific identity and career development Hale et al. @BeaulieuBio Alex Harkess konyves_kalman Beaulieu School HudsonAlpha RHS Garden Wisley The Royal Society 📖ow.ly/egrY50SL82a

This semester, undergrads in BIOL 499 are part of the American Campus Tree Genomes project of Alex Harkess #ECSU. We are sequencing an oak 🌰 tree near the library. Just sent off the HMW DNA 🧬to be sequenced 🤞🤞. Students will then learn to annotate. #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu

We are still looking for speakers for the PAG Plant Reproductive Genomics session - please reach out if interested!

New OA Article: "ZW sex chromosome structure in Amborella trichopoda" rdcu.be/d1MVn With News & Views rdcu.be/d1MVB The haplotype-resolved genome in Amborella addresses questions on the structure and gene content of the recently evolved ZW sex chromosomes.

The #G3journal December cover features the "mother tree" of all 'WA 38' apples. A relatively new apple cultivar produced as a cross between Enterprise & Honeycrisp, 'WA 38' was bred by Kate Evans & Bruce Barritt of the WSU Apple Breeding Program. 📸: Robert W. Hubner 🔗⬇️

Our Cosmic Crisp® Apple genome made it to the #CoverStory of #G3journal! Co-first authors (Itsuhiro Ko @ashtonEaker) and corresponding author (Stephen Ficklin) celebrating at The Black Cypress Thanks #ACTG, especially Alex Harkess, and the wtfrc Agricultural Research Service for support!

Proud of my students who put together the genome and the manuscript! This is the second publication from #AmericanCampusTreeGenome project (spearheaded by Alex Harkess), and more are on the way!