On August 2nd we had our lab warming party. Together with Dr. Yvonne Böttcher’s junior research group (“Genetics of Adipositas”) we celebrated the start of our wet lab activities. We want to thank everybody of the former Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF) for welcoming us so warmly.
Our group, Petra (our secretary), and Jens (our systems administrator) at the party
Nadine Rastig now supports our group as a student assistant. Nadine currently studies Biology in the 5th semester. She is helping our group in the lab by participating in various experiments. Welcome, Nadine!
Our paper describing the content and evolution of Krüppel-type zinc finger (KZNF) genes in primates is accepted for publication in PLoS One: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021553. Data from this project are contained in our Primate KZNF catalog (http://znf.igb.uiuc.edu/). The work was performed in Prof. Lisa Stubbs’ lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The paper will be online starting June 29th.
Rui Faria from CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversidade and Genetic Resources) at the University of Porto, Portugal, visited our lab from May 15th to May 22nd. He gave a talk on “Chromosomal speciation revisited: rearranging theory with pieces of evidence”.
Luz Rosalina Tincopa Marca from Peru joined our lab on May 10th as our second PhD student. Welcome Rosalina!
Lia Abbasi Moheb joined our group on April 1st as a postdoc. Welcome Lia!
Katja Jacob started on April 1st to support our group as technician. Welcome Katja!
Stefano Berto from Italy joined our lab on March 15th to do a PhD. Welcome Stefano!
