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Latest news from our group - both science and social.
2025
The latest multi-omics approaches to study biological systems.
EI Innovate is our institutes annual engagement event that provides insight into our research, exploring opportunities for innovation and collaboration.
Welcome to Warren (Cai group, Manchester) - visiting for three months.
Celebrating all of Isabel’s contributions with tubing and dinner, then cake on her last day.
Eduardo and Isabel presented at the Birmingham Centre for Genome Biology 2025 Conference.
Angela, Anna, Conrad and Nerea attend and present at the CSH DNA replication meeting
This year we hosted three Nuffield students for a two week research placement.
Our third group retreat at the beautiful Earlham Hall on the UEA campus - joint with Julian Blow and group.
Jamie and Rose’s paper, discovering the sites of DNA replication initiation across the human genome on single molecules, is published in Genome Biology.
Our second iteration of our popular course on detection of DNA base modification using nanopore sequencing.
2024
We were delighted to welcome Prof. Daigaku to visit and give a seminar.
A sunny day for a group barbecue and welcome to Nerea Murugarren (from the Gutiérrez Lab).
Our second group retreat at the beautiful Earlham Hall on the UEA campus - post-UK general election (so some exhaustion).
For the first time we’ve run a course on detection of DNA base modification using nanopore sequencing.
2023
Our group 2023 Christmas lunch - thanks to Angela for organising.
Our collaborative project, led by Patrick Cai, to design, construct and test a synthetic neo Chromosome - a chromosome that is new to nature - has been published. The tRNA neochromosome is used to house and organise all 275 nuclear tRNA genes from the yeast and will eventually be added to the fully synthetic yeast where the tRNA genes have been removed from the other synthesised chromosomes. It forms part of a wider project (Sc2.0) that has now successfully synthesised all 16 native chromosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, common baker’s yeast, and aims to combine them to form a fully synthetic cell.
Group afternoon tea trip and welcome to our new PhD student, Lukasz, and Year in Industry student, Georgia.
Our first group day out on Goose as we welcome Lukasz on his first visit to Norwich.