Deadline extended to the 12th of June! You still have time to submit to our SI in Molecular Ecology

Less than one week to submit your papers to our Special Issue in Molecular Ecology Send us your chromosome rearrangements stories! Kay Lucek Hannah Augustijnen Cristina

Our new genome for Waterbuck has been released today! PacBio HiFi contigs by the awesome Corey Kirkland plus HiC from thednazoo Working on the manuscript with other very cool samples! #antelopes #chronosomes #genomeassemblies

📣📣📣Starting in 6 hours at 13:00 UTC EASEL: software for eukaryotic structural and functional genome annotation by Jill Wegrzyn (jillwegrzyn.bsky.social) Cynthia Webster Vidya Vuruputoor (vuruputoor.bsky.social) Zoom and Discord links at BGA23.org/sessions

🌟EastBio PhD Studentship🌟 Exciting opportunity to join James Prendergast and I to work on annotation of telomere to telomere genomes for sheep and pig 🧬🐑🐖Apply by 24th Nov ✉️ findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

PhD position available to work to work with me, Frances Pearl and Marta Farré on Patterns of Mutation in the Human Genome. Closing date 8/1/23 details at southcoastbiosciencesdtp.ac.uk

Join us on Tuesday 12 March 1pm in SLT1 where Marta Farré will present her lab's work on 'Genome evolution in mammals: from marsupials to antelopes, and all the way to mouse'. For more info visit Farré lab: bit.ly/3T3c4kM

Two new chapters from my open-access textbook in human population genetics are now online: - Population structure: I. Ancestry estimation - Population structure: II. More about admixture web.stanford.edu/group/pritchar…

MEIOTIC DRIVE AND THE EVOLUTION OF CHROMOSOMES In 2001, Pardo-Manuel de Villena and Sapienza observed that positions of centromeres in mammalian genomes does not follow the expected normal distribution. What was going on? (1/8)

#JOB ALERT!👩‍🔬🌱 We have a #postdoc #PDRA position at the University of Kent School of Biosciences, University of Kent for scientist from #Vietnam interested in studying #plant #centella to develop anti #cancer drugs. research.kent.ac.uk/british-counci… Deadline 30th June RT appreciated! 🙏 #plantscijobs #postdocposition #scijobs

This week we're testing the new PromethION P2Solo School of Biosciences, University of Kent and launching the new Agricultural Genomics (AG-GEN) group. So far so good! #nanopore

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

At the Annual Postgraduate Conference University of Kent University of Kent Graduate and Researcher College I was the runner up for Best Research Supervisor Award of the Uni😊 THANKS to my research group Sarah Quigley Carla Canedo Ribeiro Corey Kirkland and Frances Burden for nominating me! 🥹 🥹#EmotionalAndSlightlyEmbarrassed