Our new method, plotsr, for visualising structural properties of multiple genomes is now published in Oxford Academic Bioinformatics. Using plotsr we visualised genomic differences between six human, eight thaliana and four potato genomes. doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…

Join the 6th International Fascination of Plants Day on May 18th! This initiative is launched by plant scientists across the world under the umbrella of the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO). To learn more and get involved, visit: buff.ly/3vEZfkY #FoPD22

Variation graphs are an attempt to solve a key theoretical problem in biology: How do we model many-way comparisons between sequences that describe all possible DNA mutations?

Towards col du Lautaret for five days study tour. #France Université Grenoble Alpes

Flash-back on our Annual PLANTA International Symposium that took place last Thursday at Jardin du Lautaret (UGA/CNRS), with Université Grenoble Alpes and Università degli Studi di Milano colleagues. Congrats to committee members and speakers, who are current students and alumni of the PLANT-Int/Plant Science Master program

And we ended the day with a Gala dinner Hôtel des Glaciers:

It was a great experience to attend an International annual Planta International Symposium in Du Lautaret, hosted by Università degli Studi di Milano & Université Grenoble Alpes Congrats, to Luca Gianfranceschi & Cristel Carles for successfully hosting it. The professors were so friendly and Cooperative.

and now: Flash-back on the integration week of our newly recruited PLANT-Int Master students: some work for sure but also lots of fun, cooking/eating and hiking together.

Congrats to the PLANT-Int graduates we could celebrate this year at the APIS event for those who were able to join us Jardin du Lautaret (UGA/CNRS), and to those also, who couldn't make the trip up there 👏👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓.

Una volta i concorsi per diventare professore universitario chiedevano ai candidati di tenere una lezione. Se la lezione di Luigi avesse avuto questo grafico non sarebbe finita bene. È un grafico inaccettabile anche per una tesi di laurea.

Two studies from Kim, Lee, Ko, Erich Jarvis & co compare old and updated genome assemblies for example mammal, bird, and fish. One focuses on artefactual gene losses, and one gene gains, and they explore the factors leading to these genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo – this year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physiology or medicine – accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans.

Today's meeting between administrative representatives of the Uni Grenoble-Alpes and Uni Milan. An example of excellent collaboration to make our double degree master's program even better and the various procedures simpler and less stressful for students.

Our pangenome work on the barn swallow is out! Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) Simona Secomandi @GuidoRGallo Luca Gianfranceschi @ABonisoli cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Check out our work on barn swallow pangenomics!! 🧬🐦🎉 cell.com/cell-reports/f…

How plants locally adopt to diverse environmental conditions, an intersting talk by @LaskyJR at Università degli Studi di Milano, thanks to Lucio Conti for hosting. #research

Thinking of prof Mirella Sari-Gorla, whose funeral took place today. She was a true pioneer and role model video.unimi.it/media/327/

The first #gull chromosome-level #genome assembly is available! Check out our paper presenting a new black-legged #kittiwake genome tinyurl.com/5n6dc9r9 👇👇 a couple of highlights: