The Current Biology paper is getting a bit of press, starting with Kobayashi-san on NHK and Asahi And then more locally on Newstalk ZB. As well as in Australia.
And more great news – Saumya’s Genome Research paper in collaboration with Brian McStay in Ireland has finally been accepted, and is available as an advanced online version here!! Congratulations to Saumya and everyone involved!
Great news – our Current Biology paper with Takehiko Kobayashi’s group is now out. You can find it here.
A PhD position with Assoc Prof Murray Cox at Massey’s PN campus that is part of a collaboration with Austen is now available. It is looking at the fate of gene expression in polyploids using next-generation sequencing. See the Positions page for details.
Brenner’s Encyclopedia of Genetics, 2nd edition, has just been released and contains a chapter I did on concerted evolution, which can be found here.
The Dothistroma septosporum and Cladosporium fulvum genome paper led by Rosie Bradshaw and Pierre de Wit has just come out in PLoS Genetics. You can see the article here.
Next week is the NZMS meeting in Dunedin, followed by a trip to the University of Canterbury
I have applied for funding for a summer scholarship for my lab. If you are interested, please check here for more details and application information.
The new ENCODE papers on the organisation and expression of the whole human genome are out (in Nature and other journals). They show that the vast majority of the human genome is functional, with the intergenic regions providing a wealth of regulatory functions. The main paper can be found here
Next week is the NZ Queenstown Molecular Biology meeting. The lab will be presenting two talks and three posters!