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New in G3: a beaver genome, some sparkling yeast, and neon proteins
Check out the February issue of G3! Table of Contents Genome Report Genome Report: Identification and Validation of Antigenic Proteins from Pajaroellobacter abortibovis Using De Novo Genome Sequence Assembly and Reverse Vaccinology Bryan T. Welly, Michael R. Miller, Jeffrey L. Stott, Myra T. Blanchard, Alma D. Islas-Trejo, Sean M. O’Rourke, Amy E. Young, Juan F.…
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New Faculty Profile: Carolyn Phillips
New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website. Carolyn Phillips Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences (Since 2015) University of Southern California Lab website Research program: The Phillips lab studies the mechanisms of…
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Beyond genetics
I’m just back from a week-long vacation in magnificent southeast Alaska, nestled up against British Columbia. Off remote Chichagof Island, humpback whales surrounded us, so close we rafted our kayaks and thumped on them. In the Inian Islands, we spotted bald eagles perched amidst the tall Sitka spruces, their heads visible like golf balls in…
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Trying to Find your Way in the Nervous System? C. elegans can help!
Guest post by Daniel G. Taub. With billions of neurons in the human brain, making the right connections during development seems a daunting task. A developing neuron often follows the lead of trailblazers, using existing bundles of axons called axonal tracts as a guide. But how does the original axonal tract get laid down? In…
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New Faculty Profile: Steven Zuryn
New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website. Steven Zuryn Group Leader, Stafford Fox Senior Research Fellow Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australiae Lab website Research program: One of our main…
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It was Greek to me (Julius Caesar)
One of Shakespeare’s First Folios was recently on loan from the Folger Library to Seattle, and my wife and I went to view it. You don’t have to be a theatre-lover to feel awestruck peering at the page opened at: “To be or not to be…” in a printing from Shakespeare’s troupe made shortly after…
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Behind the podium: TAGC Keynote Speaker Jef Boeke
“This is the first self-replicating species that we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer. Because it’s very difficult to eliminate multiple genes from a cell . . . we decided early on that we had to take a synthetic route—even though nobody had been there before—to see if we could synthesize the…
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New Faculty Profile: Divya Sitaraman
New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website. Divya Sitaraman Assistant Professor (since 2014) Department of Psychological Sciences University of San Diego Lab website Research program: My long-term goal is to understand behavioral outputs…
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Behind the podium: TAGC Keynote Speaker Cori Bargmann
Dr. Cori Bargmann studies how an animal’s genes, environment and experience cooperate to influence different behaviors. Bargmann, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and the head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, served as co-chair of the NIH Advisory Committee for the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative…
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New Faculty Profile: Philip Jordan
New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website. Phillip Jordan Assistant Professor (since 2013) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Bloomberg School of Public Health Lab website Research program: Assessment of the functions of…
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New in G3: Cotton, Candida, and Chlamydomonas
Check out the June issue of G3! Investigations Sdt97: A Point Mutation in the 5′ Untranslated Region Confers Semidwarfism in Rice Jiping Tong, Zhengshu Han, Aonan Han, Xuejun Liu, Shiyong Zhang, Binying Fu, Jun Hu, Jingping Su, Shaoqing Li, Shengjun Wang, and Yingguo Zhu G3 June 2016 6:1491-1502; Early Online April 29, 2016 doi:10.1534/g3.116.028720 Abstract…