Strong representation by the WGG (Wild Genes Group) at the SMBE 2016 – the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre, Queensland, Australia (@OfficialSMBE).
A big ‘thank you’ to SMBE for awarding Kimberly Pinch and Nynke Raven with student travel awards and making it possible for them to attend SMBE 2016!
Researchers have been desperately trying to develop treatments against the disease, but despite some promising progress towards a vaccine, for the most part, study after study has come back with nothing but bad news.
Could ‘active immunotherapy’ be the solution? Read more on this via ScienceAlert.com and find out what lead researcher Beata Ujvari, from Deakin University in Australia has to say.
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Beautiful summary of our work by @GrrrlScientist. Check it out at:
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Tasmanian devils have highly complex and ancient immunoglobulin light chain variable repertoires. Our article with Kathy Belov just gone online. Check out:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165242715001750
Well done Patrick, we are so proud of you!!!
Nynke Raven and Kimberly Pinch receive the prestigious Student Travel Awards to attend GSA2015. We are so proud of you girls!!! Well done! http://www.genetics.org.au/2015-conference/
Evolutionary Applications’ Highlights has featured our DFTD epigenetics article as one of the exciting papers using evolutionary biology to address questions of practical importance.
Read more about it: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eva.12040/abstract
