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2024
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.