With @burgesslab.bsky.social, not one, but TWO freshly caught T2T zebrafish reference genomes for the TΓΌbingen and AB strains π£ π£ π
@vivekbhr
Assistant Prof. @Utrecht University (NL). I study epigenetic regulation of cell fates using single-cell genomics and data science. Previously at Max Planck-IE (DE) and Hubrecht Institute (NL). https://vblab.org
With @burgesslab.bsky.social, not one, but TWO freshly caught T2T zebrafish reference genomes for the TΓΌbingen and AB strains π£ π£ π
A lovely graphic from The Allied Genetics Conference 2020 depicting the many model organisms that contribute to our understanding of science. https://genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2025/professional-development/careers-at-tagc/
CONCLUSIONS:
To promote the best science being done, we need to look at the incentives of science publishing and funding. Long-term funding produces better science. Short-term and topical agendas encourages irreproducibility.
Funding model organisms generates science we can build on! πͺ°πͺ±π¦ π ππΈ
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A new #zebrafish reference genome assembly (GRCz12tu) has been posted at GenBank! Special thanks to @burgesslab.bsky.social, NCBI, and the GRC for their immeasurable work π₯ It is not yet annotated, but that will be forthcoming. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen... h/t Monte Westerfield on ZR! Slack
Very important work #epigenomics, as we almost never image the cells when performing CnR/CnT experiments
New story from @marloes3105.bsky.social shows new insights towards optimizing the in vitro models of mouse embryogenesis.