centromere

Rapid Chromosome Evolution in Gibbons

Gabrielle Hartley from the University of Connecticut presented at London Calling 2023 a lightning talk. The session’s title is “Telomere-to-telomere nanopore-based genome assembly reveals genomic and epigenetic features of karyotype radiation.” Hartley is a graduate student and is studying the evolution of gibbons. They noted that, unlike other apes, gibbons “have highly rearranged karyotypes concomitant […]
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Studying Centromere Structure with ONT

I continue to watch the YouTube “Assembly” playlist from the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) channel. Tonight, I watched session #8! Ian Henderson from the University of Cambridge in the UK presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021. The session was titled “Assembling the centromeres – the ‘black holes’ of the genome.” Henderson said the centromeres […]
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Centromere Evolution in Gibbons

Gabrielle Hartley from the University of Connecticut presented at London Calling 2023 a session entitled “Telomere-to-telomere nanopore-based genome assembly reveals genomic and epigenetic features of karyotype radiation.” Hartley is a Ph.D. candidate. They are using Nanopore-based sequencing to learn about chromosome evolution in primates. Hartley is focusing on gibbons, small endangered apes with 18-20 species […]
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Dimelo-seq and CENP-A to Determine the Centromere Protein A Landscape

Yuan (Daniel) Xu from the University of California, Santa Cruz, spoke about the “Determination of the centromere protein A landscape at single-molecule resolution” during the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022. Their five-minute session was based on their work as a graduate student. They spoke about centromere localization and how CENP-A helps determine the region. The objective […]
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