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Genomics, molecular cytogenetics, chromosome and genome evolution research

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lab of Pat Heslop-Harrison & Trude Schwarzacher, University of Leicester UK phh4(a)le.ac.uk

Molecular cytogenetics homepage

The MolCyt.com site has been redesigned with this homepage linking to nine topics, two blogs, our Department and a contact page. www.MolCyt.org is used for content management and you can subcribe to e-mail updates there.

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The previous MolCyt pages remain available as not all information is in the new site.
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Latest publications and news
The banana genome has been sequenced and analysed!

We have the sequences of all the 36000 genes in this important crop. The publication of is of applied importance, giving knowledge of the genes giving the agronomic and food-related properties; and of fundamental importance to research since it allows us to compare banana with the related grasses and palms to understand genome evolutionary processes.

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Future and recent conferences
We have included a page to link to conference presentations and can feature individual meetings such as Modelling Ecosystems. More conferences are featured at

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Teaching material is linked here

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And social media posts including YouTube here

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Our research, lab and impact

Our work lets us understand how farmed animals and plants have arisen. We use our new knowledge to breed crops with increased sustainability and better yield. We study biology and evolution of genomes by molecular cytogenetics and DNA analysis, investigating diverse groups of plants and animals. We focus on large-scale processes of genome evolution and control at levels of 1) DNA sequences, 2) genomes in polyploids and 3) chromosomes. Microscopy, in situ hybridization, molecular (epi)genetics and systems biology lets us explore, understand and use biodiversity in crops, farm animals, relatives and model species.
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People, collaborators, editing and teaching

The group includes PIs, PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, undergraduates and sabbatical visitors and a part time technician.
Our lab is involved in reviewing and editing many journals, including Annals of Botany, Genome, Sexual Plant Reproduction and Theoretical and Applied Genetics. We also advise and review international laboratories and programmes.

We give undergraduate and advanced courses in the University of Leicester and internationally based on our research.

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Our publications, conferences, press and social media

We have an active publication programme. Titles of recent publications are listed here, or available from Pubmed here. www.MolCyt.org contains abstracts and links from 2012 while publications from earlier are here (including at the John Innes Centre JIC, Norwich and Plant Breeding Institute PBI, Cambridge).

Information about talks, interviews and other outputs are discussed here.

Publications and literature we are interested in discussing is here.


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Phone: +44/0 116 252 3381
Email: phh4(a)le.ac.uk

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  • Banana genomics
  • Drosophila repeated DNA
  • Pararetroviruses
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