In the latest Yeast review article, Takashi Hirasawa discusses the Saccharomyces cerevisiae knockout strain collection and its applications in functional genomics studies, biotechnology and human disease research, including its caveats and future prospects.
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Yeast Knockout Strain Collection: Driving Functional Genomics, Biotechnological Applications and Human Disease Research
The knockout strain collection of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has served as a valuable resource for functional genomics and yeast-based biotechnology studies. A comprehensive single-gene knockout strain...
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September 24, 2026 at 10:19 AM
In the latest Yeast review article, Takashi Hirasawa discusses the Saccharomyces cerevisiae knockout strain collection and its applications in functional genomics studies, biotechnology and human disease research, including its caveats and future prospects.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Hey everyone! I’m a functional microbial genomics researcher who loves symbiosis and cocktails :) follow if interested in either!
February 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hey everyone! I’m a functional microbial genomics researcher who loves symbiosis and cocktails :) follow if interested in either!
Friends and colleagues, I’ve written a book on effective functional genomics study design, which will be available on Amazon in a couple of weeks. Sharing the TOC to spark interest. I hope students and those planning genomics experiments will find it useful! I’ll share updates soon
January 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Friends and colleagues, I’ve written a book on effective functional genomics study design, which will be available on Amazon in a couple of weeks. Sharing the TOC to spark interest. I hope students and those planning genomics experiments will find it useful! I’ll share updates soon
A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects.
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Postdoctoral fellow in Noctuidae functional genomics
Subject description The project will use a comparative functional genomes approach to study a species-rich group of moths, Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). Noctuidae have both a huge negative and positive imp
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February 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects.
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New research group leader @matthiasmuhar.bsky.social joins @mpi-cbg.de! 🥳 With his group "Functional genomics of proteome remodeling,” Matthias wants to pursue high-throughput genetic studies to understand how protein turnover is regulated. Welcome, Matthias! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
New research group leader for functional genomics
Molecular biologist Matthias Muhar becomes part of the MPI-CBG faculty
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December 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New research group leader @matthiasmuhar.bsky.social joins @mpi-cbg.de! 🥳 With his group "Functional genomics of proteome remodeling,” Matthias wants to pursue high-throughput genetic studies to understand how protein turnover is regulated. Welcome, Matthias! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Absolute pleasure to have been asked to write this perspective in @science.org along with Ellen Bushell covering two groundbreaking functional genomics papers in the monkey malaria parasite P. knowlesi 🧪
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Not just monkey business
Functional genomics in malaria unlocks comparative biology across the family tree
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February 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Absolute pleasure to have been asked to write this perspective in @science.org along with Ellen Bushell covering two groundbreaking functional genomics papers in the monkey malaria parasite P. knowlesi 🧪
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Interested in using functional genomics to understand the brain in health and disease?
Check out our Gordon research conference below! Slots for posters and short talks are still available! Deadline March 9th
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Check out our Gordon research conference below! Slots for posters and short talks are still available! Deadline March 9th
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2025 Functional Genomics of Human Brain Development and Disease Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Functional Genomics of Human Brain Development and Disease will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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January 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Interested in using functional genomics to understand the brain in health and disease?
Check out our Gordon research conference below! Slots for posters and short talks are still available! Deadline March 9th
www.grc.org/functional-g...
Check out our Gordon research conference below! Slots for posters and short talks are still available! Deadline March 9th
www.grc.org/functional-g...
New book of possible interest: An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design by Yoav Gilad amzn.to/4hcwMcw
An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design
Amazon.com: An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design: 9798218585952: Gilad, Yoav: Books
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January 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
New book of possible interest: An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design by Yoav Gilad amzn.to/4hcwMcw
I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
One month to go until the CSHL Biology of Genomes abstract deadline! My all-time fav meeting, and one of the few covering genomics broadly. We have a ✨🤩 lineup of speakers, but it's the abstract talks & posters that really make the meeting - send us your best work! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
January 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One month to go until the CSHL Biology of Genomes abstract deadline! My all-time fav meeting, and one of the few covering genomics broadly. We have a ✨🤩 lineup of speakers, but it's the abstract talks & posters that really make the meeting - send us your best work! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
@ygilad.bsky.social has what looks like a useful book just released:
An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design
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I just bought a copy for the lab.
An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design
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I just bought a copy for the lab.
An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design
Amazon.com: An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design: 9798218585952: Gilad, Yoav: Books
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January 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
@ygilad.bsky.social has what looks like a useful book just released:
An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design
www.amazon.com/Intuitive-Pr...
I just bought a copy for the lab.
An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design
www.amazon.com/Intuitive-Pr...
I just bought a copy for the lab.
Personalized functional genomics atlas for Alzheimer’s disease that uses knowledge-guided graph neural networks to analyze donor-level functional genomics, identify disease subpopulations and trajectories, and link genetic variants to gene regulation.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Personalized single-cell transcriptomics reveals molecular diversity in Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Communications
Personalized functional genomics atlas for Alzheimer’s disease that uses knowledge-guided graph neural networks to analyze donor-level functional genomics, identify disease subpopulations and trajecto...
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September 25, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Personalized functional genomics atlas for Alzheimer’s disease that uses knowledge-guided graph neural networks to analyze donor-level functional genomics, identify disease subpopulations and trajectories, and link genetic variants to gene regulation.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design" - Check out @ygilad.bsky.social 's new text book!
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January 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
"An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design" - Check out @ygilad.bsky.social 's new text book!
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Faculty Job Alert! #ScienceJobs
Michigan State University Integrative Biology is looking for a TT Assist Prof in Functional #Genomics. Join a vibrant research community for non-traditional #EvoDevo animal models! tinyurl.com/4hya8vet Deadline: 11/27/24 integrativebiology.natsci.msu.edu
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Michigan State University Integrative Biology is looking for a TT Assist Prof in Functional #Genomics. Join a vibrant research community for non-traditional #EvoDevo animal models! tinyurl.com/4hya8vet Deadline: 11/27/24 integrativebiology.natsci.msu.edu
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MSU Careers Details - Assistant Professor-Tenure System - Functional Genomics
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November 11, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Faculty Job Alert! #ScienceJobs
Michigan State University Integrative Biology is looking for a TT Assist Prof in Functional #Genomics. Join a vibrant research community for non-traditional #EvoDevo animal models! tinyurl.com/4hya8vet Deadline: 11/27/24 integrativebiology.natsci.msu.edu
Pls repost!
Michigan State University Integrative Biology is looking for a TT Assist Prof in Functional #Genomics. Join a vibrant research community for non-traditional #EvoDevo animal models! tinyurl.com/4hya8vet Deadline: 11/27/24 integrativebiology.natsci.msu.edu
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CRISPR RNA-Guided Integrase Enables Targeted Genome Engineering and Prophage Functional Genomics in Plant-Pathogenic Pseudomonas https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.22.753576v1
September 25, 2026 at 5:00 AM
CRISPR RNA-Guided Integrase Enables Targeted Genome Engineering and Prophage Functional Genomics in Plant-Pathogenic Pseudomonas https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.22.753576v1
Call for papers for a cool new special issue of Genetics focused on Functional Genomics:
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Using functional genomics to explore biological networks: a call for papers
The journal GENETICS is calling for submission of papers for a Special Issue on “Using functional genomics to explore biological networks.”
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August 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Call for papers for a cool new special issue of Genetics focused on Functional Genomics:
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The Nano Lab is opening in the Dept. of BioSciences, Rice University, Oct 2026! 🧠🦉
We’ll be profiling and perturbing the molecular cues that shape the human brain using single-cell functional genomics and cortical organoids.
We’ll be profiling and perturbing the molecular cues that shape the human brain using single-cell functional genomics and cortical organoids.
August 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
The Nano Lab is opening in the Dept. of BioSciences, Rice University, Oct 2026! 🧠🦉
We’ll be profiling and perturbing the molecular cues that shape the human brain using single-cell functional genomics and cortical organoids.
We’ll be profiling and perturbing the molecular cues that shape the human brain using single-cell functional genomics and cortical organoids.
My book, An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design, is published! I’d really appreciate it if you could help spread the word, and I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback. I hope people will find it useful.
It’s available on Amazon: tinyurl.com/mx2hewen
It’s available on Amazon: tinyurl.com/mx2hewen
January 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My book, An Intuitive Primer on Effective Functional Genomics Study Design, is published! I’d really appreciate it if you could help spread the word, and I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback. I hope people will find it useful.
It’s available on Amazon: tinyurl.com/mx2hewen
It’s available on Amazon: tinyurl.com/mx2hewen
Great meeting with speakers in genomics, functional proteomics, quantitative imaging, microscopy, and theory. Plenty of talks selected from abstracts!
Join #EMBOOmics which aims to showcase new technologies and formulate questions to move the systems biology field forward 👉 s.embl.org/omx26-01-bl
📥 Abstract deadline 11 September
📥 Abstract deadline 11 September
March 19, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Great meeting with speakers in genomics, functional proteomics, quantitative imaging, microscopy, and theory. Plenty of talks selected from abstracts!
1/10 I am delighted to present my lab's latest research by Daniel Richard et al entitled "Functional genomics of human skeletal development and the patterning of height heritability" in Cell at:
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Functional genomics of human skeletal development and the patterning of height heritability
Underlying variation in height are regulatory changes to chondrocytes, cartilage cells comprising long-bone growth plates. Currently, we lack knowledg…
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November 15, 2024 at 7:31 PM
1/10 I am delighted to present my lab's latest research by Daniel Richard et al entitled "Functional genomics of human skeletal development and the patterning of height heritability" in Cell at:
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I have accepted the fact, but I will never understand why we collectively refer to profiling molecular phenotypes using methods that couple molecular biology to high throughput sequencing detection as "functional genomics". A genome-wide RNAi screen in C. elegans, that is functional genomics
January 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I have accepted the fact, but I will never understand why we collectively refer to profiling molecular phenotypes using methods that couple molecular biology to high throughput sequencing detection as "functional genomics". A genome-wide RNAi screen in C. elegans, that is functional genomics
Exciting cluster hire of post-docs and PhD students at U Puerto Rico, on Butterfly Functional Genomics and more.
Spread widely
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Spread widely
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March 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Exciting cluster hire of post-docs and PhD students at U Puerto Rico, on Butterfly Functional Genomics and more.
Spread widely
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Spread widely
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Review on guide RNA-directed transposition (CAST) with an eye to functional genomics, "The promise of CRISPR-associated transposons for bacterial functional genomics" (Note JM Peters is not me or a relative, but is a friend and former coauthor!). #TEsky #MicroSky doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
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December 5, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Review on guide RNA-directed transposition (CAST) with an eye to functional genomics, "The promise of CRISPR-associated transposons for bacterial functional genomics" (Note JM Peters is not me or a relative, but is a friend and former coauthor!). #TEsky #MicroSky doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
We developed CrossFilt, a read-level, cross-species filtering approach that avoids these errors without sacrificing usable data. It outperforms all existing strategies and exposes just how much signal in comparative genomics has been misread.
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CrossFilt: A Cross-species Filtering Tool that Eliminates Alignment Bias in Comparative Genomics Studies
Comparative functional genomic studies are often affected by biased read mapping across species due to inter-species differences in genome structure, sequence composition, and annotation quality. We d...
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June 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
We developed CrossFilt, a read-level, cross-species filtering approach that avoids these errors without sacrificing usable data. It outperforms all existing strategies and exposes just how much signal in comparative genomics has been misread.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our lab is recruiting 🐜🧬 :
- PhD student, functional genomics, Chinese nationals only
- Postdocs, population genomics, open internationally
Lab info and contact: lab-darras.github.io
Based at Zhejiang University 🇨🇳, one of the very best research universities in the world (tinyurl.com/4nb56pv6).
- PhD student, functional genomics, Chinese nationals only
- Postdocs, population genomics, open internationally
Lab info and contact: lab-darras.github.io
Based at Zhejiang University 🇨🇳, one of the very best research universities in the world (tinyurl.com/4nb56pv6).
July 4, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Our lab is recruiting 🐜🧬 :
- PhD student, functional genomics, Chinese nationals only
- Postdocs, population genomics, open internationally
Lab info and contact: lab-darras.github.io
Based at Zhejiang University 🇨🇳, one of the very best research universities in the world (tinyurl.com/4nb56pv6).
- PhD student, functional genomics, Chinese nationals only
- Postdocs, population genomics, open internationally
Lab info and contact: lab-darras.github.io
Based at Zhejiang University 🇨🇳, one of the very best research universities in the world (tinyurl.com/4nb56pv6).