A postdoctoral researcher in Professor Joseph Ecker’s lab, Illouz-Eliaz is this year’s recipient of the Weizmann Institute of Science award. The program “supports Israeli women scientists during their postdoctoral training at leading institutions and laboratories abroad at a crucial stage in their career development.” Illouz-Eliaz will receive career coaching and $70,000 over two years.
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Read the news release here: https://www.salk.edu/news-release/new-maps-of-chemical-marks-on-dna-pinpoint-regions-relevant-to-many-developmental-diseases/

To understand how cellular machinery functions, scientists have looked to an organism’s DNA. But genome sequence has not proven to be the complete instruction manual that researchers had hoped for. (more…)

Shelly submitted her thesis on August 31! Congrats Shelly – moving on to postdoc at UW!

Congratulations Chongyuan Luo on Nature Communications publication describing snmC-seq2 – terrific improvements to single cell methylome profiling method!

Bobby Henley received an BRAIN Initiative Fellows: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship.

*From sciencenews.org In a landmark event more than a decade ago, geneticists unveiled the human genetic instruction book. This year, the book was turned into a movie adaptation in 3-D: Researchers cataloged how chemical (more…)

*From popsci.com June marked the release of the first map of the human epigenome: the chemical markers that tell your DNA what to express when. “Think of the genome as the hardware in your computer and the epigenome as the software,” says Joseph Ecker, director of the (more…)

*From discovermagazine.com In the 12 years since the Human Genome Project was completed, biologists have linked more than a thousand regions of the genome to disease. “But in most cases, we don’t actually know how they function,” says Manolis Kellis, a computational biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Enter the epigenome. (more…)

Transcriptional gene silencing is a pivotal mechanism for regulating gene expression and genome stability. In Arabidopsis, combined analyses of small RNAs (sRNAs) and DNA methylation reveals that mobile 24-nt sRNAs are involved in reinforcing genome-wide silencing of transposons through DNA methylation. (more…)

This weeks Arabidopsis Research Roundup features a paper from David Baulcombe and Joe Ecker that further deciphers mechanisms of RNA silencing and is kindly discussed by postdoc Mat Lewsey in a short audio description. Elsewhere there are three studies that include researchers from CPIB in Nottingham. (more…)

Agricultural grafting dates back nearly 3,000 years. By trial and error, people from ancient China to ancient Greece realized that joining a cut branch from one plant onto the stalk of another could improve the quality of crops. (more…)

LA JOLLA—A new technique developed by Salk Institute scientists for rapidly mapping regions of DNA targeted by regulatory proteins could give scientists insight into what makes some plants drought tolerant or disease resistant, among other traits. (more…)

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Salk scientists and colleagues have proposed new molecular criteria for judging just how close any line of laboratory-generated stem cells comes to mimicking embryonic cells seen in the very earliest stages of human development, known as naïve stem cells. The tests found that no current protocols lead to truly naïve stem cells, (more…)

An international team of scientists has sequenced the whole genomes and epigenomes of more than 1,000 Arabidopsis thaliana plants, sampled from geographically diverse locations. The collection of 1,001 genomes and 1,001 epigenomes not only illuminates new aspects of the plant’s evolutionary history (more…)

Infertile couples might be able to greatly boost their chances of having a baby by using the genetic discards of egg cells, researchers from the Salk Institute and Oregon Health and Science University said in a new study. (more…)

The small green trays of plants in this Salk Institute greenhouse are far more captivating to these researchers than the ocean view. Carol Huang reaches out for a tray. (more…)

DAP-seq is fast, inexpensive, easily scaled method enabling high-throughput generation of cistrome and epicistrome maps for any organism. (more…)

Scientists from the Salk Institute and University of California San Diego report identifying a number of previously unknown types of human brain cells. They’ve also discovered genetic switches that make these neurons. (more…)

Shelly Trigg’s work lands on the cover of Nature Methods. Congrats Shelly et al! (more…)

Read the paper here: http://rdcu.be/vR5K