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5/23/2022 0 Comments

New chiton genome!

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When one chiton genome just isn't enough... sequence another! Happy to share our paper on the genome of Hanleya hanleyi, a lepidopleurid chiton with SO MANY REPEATS. Take a look HERE! 

We tackled this genome with a combination of nanopore and short-reads. Running the flow cells ourselves was a fun process, and benefitted a lot from the short-read eliminator kit from Circulomics. 

Seems like chitons enjoy expanding repeats as much as long crawls on the beach; Hanleya has more repetitive content (66%!) than any other molluscs sequenced to date. But this beautiful chiton offers new data from Lepidopleurids, the clade that falls sister to all other chitons. 
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5/21/2022 0 Comments

Washington Post Article - Outreach MATTERS!

Embarrassing as it may be to have pictures of myself as a 4 year old out in the world, the Washington Post recently covered my quest to find and thank a childhood mentor. I'm so grateful to Dawn Fallik, the reporter who helped put me in touch with the amazing Dr. Vernard Lewis. Read the full article here: 

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/05/21/bugs-rebecca-varney-vernard-lewis/

And don't forget to thank your mentors! We are all here because of the people who took our dreams seriously. If Vernard hadn't told me what a PhD was, and told me that anyone could go to college, I might not be sitting here with a PhD, ready to take a shot at the academic job market. If I successfully become a professor, I hope to one day receive letters from 4-year olds. 


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