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Since the first eggs hatched, our sturgeons grew well and are now ready for a new location with appropriate equipments. We sampled 100 individuals from each of our twelve families (six inbred and six outbred) at the aquaculture plant ‘Storione Ticino’ and we transferred them to a specific facility in the park ‘Oasi … Continue reading New location for our Adriatic sturgeons 21.11.2020

Endemixit was presented during the “European projects” session held at the “Biodiversity Genomics 2020” meeting organized by the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Almost 3,000 people attended online the meeting, which was a cornerstone for all the studies around the word that use whole genomes to study and protect biodiversity. See the short video (5 … Continue reading Endemixit at the Sanger meeting “Biodiversity Genomics 2020” 11.11.2020

New components just arrived to increase our computational power. The server will soon have 472 cpu, 1,3 TB of RAM, and 216 TB for storage. Andrea and Francesco unmask themselves to show their happiness!

In these days at the UniFi cytogenetics labs we have set the cell cultures of Bombina pachypus fibroblasts using a small muscle biopsy. The cells, once grown sufficiently, will be blocked in their metaphase in order to obtain the chromosome preparations, from which the individual chromosomes will be microdissected and then sequenced. The … Continue reading Setting up Bombina pachypus fibroblast cell coltures for chromosome isolation 24.10.2020