Ben Williams

Chromatin state

This website is extensive, and you can download the original tracks pretty easily: systemsbiology.cau.edu.cn/chromstates/

For ATAC-seq Jacobsen lab has a nice paper with all the methyltransferase mutants as well

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Vegetables

Vegetables, 1952

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This is a closeup image of wheat plants in a disease trail nursery. There are yellow streaks on the otherwise healthy and green leaves caused by bacterial leaf streak

Tough day for small grains research in the Twin Cities. Myself and four scientist colleagues have all been let go from the USDA because we haven't completed our 3 year probationary period - effectively gutting the Cereal Disease Lab.
Taking a few days to be sad before I think about what comes next.

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Update: This ***NSF-funded*** study is now published in MBE. Today more than ever, I'm appreciative of what all the people at NSF do to support our science. Let's fight to support them.

doi.org/10.1093/molb...

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