GENOME CLUB, SPRING 2012

26.1

Jenni Hultman (Institute of Biotechnology)
Comparative Metagenomics on Thaw Gradient of Alaskan Permafrost  – Implications to Climate Change

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Olli-Pekka Smolander (Institute of Biotechnology)
Modeling regulatory mechanisms of gene expression and gene network dynamics

23.2

Taina Lundell (Fungal Biotechnology Group)
The largest basidiomycete mitochondrial genome so far: splicing of genes, repetitive elements and recombination allowed

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Kirsi Kiiski (The Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Biomedicum Helsinki)
Targeted array CGH analysis of the giant nebulin gene - identification of novel pathogenic deletions and normal copy number variation

22.3

Juha Immanen (Wood Development group)
Enhanced cytokinin signaling stimulates cell proliferation in cambium of Populus

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Emilia Kuuluvainen (Institute of Biotechnology)
The Cdk8 module of Mediator regulates GATA dependent transcription

Denis Dermadi Bebek (Division of Genetics)
Effects of the western-type diet on protein expression levels and tumorigenesis in normal colon mucosa of the Mlh1+/- mice - a link between metabolism, epigenetic and genetics

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Ari Löytynoja (Institute of Biotechnology)
DNA strand-switches instantaneously produce mutation clusters and RNA stems

10.5

Timo Hytönen (Department of Agricultural Sciences)
Identification of flowering time QTLs by genome resequencing

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Teija Ojala (Institute of Biotechnology)
Genomic characterization of Lactobacillus crispatus