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Phylogenetics
Phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships among biological entities - often species, individuals or genes (which may be referred to as taxa). The major elements of phylogenetics are theoretical and empirical. Credit: Shutterstock
NOV 08, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: November 08, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CET) Many enzymes form homomeric complexes comprised of subunits encoded by the same gene. Assembly into homomeric...
APR 20, 2021 | 12:00 AM
The complete assembly of each human chromosome is essential for understanding human biology and evolution. Using complementary long-read sequencing technologies, we complete the first linear...
AUG 06, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Protein structural disorder helps avoid misfolding and aggregation, but in impeding protein folding might also impede function. The balance between these two selective pressures on protein b...
JUN 09, 2020 | 6:00 AM
DATE: June 9, 2020 TIME: 6am PT, 9am ET, 3pm CEST The importance of disposable plastic consumables and their overall impact on the experimental workflow of qPCR has been taken into considera...
SEP 11, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Learning objectives:1. Metagenomic analysis is already complex, and complicated further by incomplete and non-standardized databases of known organisms2. Fungi may have their own 'mic...
AUG 22, 2019 | 10:30 AM
DNA profiling tools to teach undergraduate students about forensics generally utilize the PV92 Alu and D1S80 VNTR markers, but are both limited in scope. In contrast, advanced profiling syste...
AUG 14, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: August 14, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDT Infectious disease surveillance and monitoring is critical in settings where disease outbreaks and antibiotic resistance can dramatically im...
SEP 13, 2018 | 6:00 AM
In the US, the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System has been using WGS of Salmonella as a tool of routine surveillance since 2013. To date, NARMS has generated MIC and WGS data...
SEP 12, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Whole genome sequencing of bacterial isolates via next-generation sequencing is becoming a standard approach for clinical microbiology and bio-surveillance labs seeking to conduct outbreak in...
