November 28, 2013: A paper I am involved in titled "Earliest holozoan expansion of phosphotyrosine signaling" was accepted for publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution. November 25, 2013: Nicholas Lee's project on Mississippi anuran parasites was funded through a generous grant by the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Undergraduate Research Award. November 25, 2013: A paper that I am on was just accepted with minor revisions in Molecular Biology and Evolution ! November 25, 2013: The lab's first 2 Illumina libraries are off to be sequenced! November 19, 2013: We prepped our first TEM samples this week. We are examining a type of mitochondrial cristae configuration unique among Amoebozoa. We will be using the EM facilitates at I 2 AT !
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November 13, 2013: Our book chapter on dating the eukaryotic tree of Life using phylogenomics and the fossil record was accepted for publication in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology: Eukaryote Evolution. November 8, 2013: Nicholas Lee, an undergraduate researcher, was awarded funding for his project on Mississippi anuran parasites by the Department of Biological Sciences, Biology Student Research Award. Congratulations Nick! November 6, 2013: The lab’s research was featured on the MS State homepage. The news article is here ( http://www.msstate.edu/web/media/detail.php?id=6333 ). October 2, 2013: Dr. Jeffrey Silberman (University of Arkansas) and I were interviewed for KUAF’s (an NPR station) “Ozarks at Large” program about our Pygsuia (Pig-Sooie-a) manuscript. The radio show can be heard online ( http://www.kuaf.org/content/tiny-organism-gets-familiar-name ). September 19, 2013: Job opportunity in my la...
June 24, 2013: Assemblies for the genome and mitochondrial genome of Fonticula alba have been released. The final assembly stats are as follows: Genome: Scaffold length 32.22Mb Contig length 25.33 Mb # scaffolds 210 Scaffold N50 2.53Mb # contigs 5693 contig N50 7.56kb Mitochondrial Genome: Scaffold length 79.84kb Contg length 77.6kb # scaffolds 4 The Life Cycle of Fonticula alba Scaffold N50 45.19kb # contigs 5 contig N50 17.89kb