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Important Topics To Study For GATE XL | GATE Life Science Exam - Complete List! ✔️ 👇 https://lnkd.in/grz2HHA7 #gate2025 #gatexl #lifescience #gatepreparation #studytips #GATETopics #examstrategy #biochemistry #botany #microbiology #zoology #foodtechnology #gatesuccess

🌿✨ An extraordinary week of sharing and growth! Last Thursday marked a milestone as I presented my research project, "From Microbes to Ecosystems: Dissecting the Relationship Between Lake Microbiomes and Environmental Features," at the Undergraduate Symposium. Today, I had the wonderful opportunity to further discuss these findings at the Department of Plant Pathology. Diving deep into the microscopic world of lake microbiomes has been a fascinating journey. Exploring how these tiny but mighty ecosystems interact with their environment has not only broadened my understanding of ecological dynamics but also highlighted the critical role of microorganisms in sustaining our planet. I am deeply grateful to everyone who attended my presentations. Your engaging questions and enthusiasm for the topic have truly enriched this experience. It’s discussions like these that drive the scientific community forward and spark innovative ideas. A very special thank you goes out to my PI, Claudia Solis-Lemus, for her exceptional mentorship and steadfast support. I also owe much of my project’s success to the insightful contributions of Rosa Aghdam, PhD, and the diligent collaboration with brilliant biologists Patricia Tran, PhD, and Karthik Anantharaman. Your expertise and encouragement have been instrumental in navigating the complex interplay of factors influencing lake microbiomes. As I continue on this academic path, I’m excited about what lies ahead and can’t wait to dive deeper into our next discoveries! 🌱 #PlantPathology #Research #Microbiomes #EnvironmentalScience #UndergraduateSymposium #AcademicCollaboration #Gratitude #ScienceCommunication

One of my favorite things about the work we do is how often we work with rare species for evolutionary biology! At Rapid Genomics we pioneered the use of probe hybridization as a service platform for academics needing to generate #UCE or #UltraConservedElement data quickly and with high accuracy. Scientists have been using this data in all sorts of ways, including sequencing DNA from mummies, frogs, butterflies, dung beetles, raccoons, bears, all types of fish, and even tiny insects like ants and spiders to produce phylogenetic trees and understand speciation events. Because our #CaptureSeq platform targets the same dataset and routinely retrieves sequences from distantly related samples, we've been working with our partners for going on a decade now! If interested in our existing panels, take a look below at our most popular ones. Don't see what you're looking for? Let's make it! We can synthesize our own probes so if you have a published kit you want us to use, or if you have a new project, we got you! Ready to Use Panels: Algae GoFlag Angio408 Angiosperm353 Arachnida1.1Kv1 Cactacaea591 Diptera2.7kv1 GoFlag451 GoLife Ferns Lemmon's Firefly Probes LEP1 Tetrapod2.5Kv1 Tetrapod5Kv1 Now at LGC Biosearch Technologies, we are continuing to improve on our services including Capture-Seq pricing for academic consortiums. Photography by @austinsheppe on Instagram #NGS #Genomics #Academics #Academia #UCE #Genotyping #AncientHistory #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #EB #Population #PopulationGenomics

🌱 Some updates from the OliCit project! We're reaching an exciting new milestone with the launch of our experiments! Before diving into field deployment to collect insect traps, our collaborators at CBGP bring their expertise to assess the feasibility of biological analyses and the relevance of each selected compound, ensuring the success of our project. Biological molecular research presents several challenges to overcome, particularly due to the random weather conditions in harvesting areas and the large number of individuals to identify in each sample. This fine-tuning phase is crucial before moving on to the experimentation stage. By developing standardized sampling protocols and optimizing biological analyses, alongside AI, we ensure obtaining quality data with each harvest. An essential step for the success of our project! 🚀 #OliCit #Research #MolecularBiology #Innovation#entomology #PCR #ScientificProtocol #Corse #Occitanie

Academics provide a wealth of knowledge, but the NPTEL platform has been particularly instrumental in helping me explore my favorite area of biology—Plant Development. I have a deep interest in understanding plants, their properties, and their habitats. This specific NPTEL course allowed me to dive deeply into the behavioral study of plants, extending to the genomic and chromosomal levels, with excellent examples such as the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. It’s an incredibly fascinating course, and I would highly recommend it to peers who share a keen interest in plant development. While scoring well in such subjects can be challenging, the learning experience is undoubtedly worth the effort. #nptel #plantdevelopmentbiology #happylearning

I am pleased to share our study on the role of miR-219-5p in the zebrafish circadian clock. https://lnkd.in/gr4F4p_p

🔊 Another new paper from our group: 'The European earwig: a model species for studying the (early) evolution of social life'. 🔎 If you want to catch up with the last 15 years of research on earwigs, this is the paper for you! In this review, we give a detailed overview of what we know about the European earwig and explain why it could be a fantastic model system for studying social evolution. After an outline of its life cycle and multiple forms of sociality, we explain how this species allows us to advance our knowledge of the interplay between social conflict and cooperation in the maintenance of facultative social life, the role of pathogens and symbionts in the transition between solitary and social life, the impact of anthropogenic change on social evolution, and the chemical, hormonal and genetic regulation of facultative social behaviour. 🎊 I am very proud of this review, which was a collaborative effort between many students and colleagues working on earwigs. With Romain Honorio, Marie-charlotte Cheutin, Laura Pasquier and many others. Have a good reading! 💴 This work was funded by the ANR (Agence nationale de la recherche) (project MicroSoc), the Région Centre-Val de Loire (DisruptCare) and by Ecophyto animation nationale (project BioIndicFin) 📰

I'm recommending this very insightful article to all of my health care colleagues. I've always considered biology to have "soft margins" with intense interactions between an organism and its constituent "co-habitants" as well as its surrounding environment. It's very limited to think that organisms (including humans) are somehow walled off from their internal and external ecosystems. It's my hope that my health care colleagues will come to use these holobiont and hologenome frameworks to better understand human health and broaden our approach to effective personal behaviors, diagnostics and therapeutics.

From December 2nd to 4th, I attended the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics. It was a great learning moment, featuring Dr. Maria Emilia Walter (UnB) and Dr. Giancarlo Guizzardi (University of Twente). At this event, I presented the de novo transcriptome assembly data for the species Euterpe edulis, conducted by the Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding at Ufes - Campus de Alegre . #bioinformatics #fapes #ufes #transcriptome #cnpq #sbc #palmtree

Comenius University Bratislava, Slovak Academy of Sciences Zvolen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and University of Montana opted for the CIPRES Gateway to conduct their research, emphasizing its pivotal role in facilitating their computational analyses. Their study highlights the importance of sufficient sampling from broader areas supported by sequence data, which is essential for estimation of species delimitation, distribution and correct name assignment for Crepidotus species. #ComputationalBiology #Crepidotus #FungalTaxonomy #SpeciesDelimitation #Mycology #BiodiversityResearch #SequenceData #PhylogeneticAnalysis #BioinformaticsTool #ScientificSampling #FungalDistribution #TaxonomicAccuracy #MolecularSystematics https://buff.ly/3TBubPA