http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:58:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en hotopp-et-al-2006 jolley-et-al-2005 http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/?p=252 "The Population Biology of Neisseria meningitidis: Implications for Meningococcal Disease, Epidemiology and Control." frosh-and-maiden-chapter-2 http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/?p=240 "Use of Variable-Number Tandem Repeats To Examine Genetic Diversity of Neisseria meningitidis" Yazdankhah et al 2005.pdf http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/?p=233 This week we will be looking at association mapping in bacteria, especially meningococcus.  The Falush paper is a short review article that focuses on the Bille 2005 paper.  The Bille paper investigates a repeat element that is traced back to an integrated bacteriophage. falush_2006_trends-in-microbiology bille05 Questions to help you What is a bacteriophage?  Inverted ... http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/?p=201 Swartley et al describe capsule switching in Neisseria meningitidis. swartley-capsule-switching pnas-1997-jan941-271-6-all-figures Major questions to answer What is capsule switching? What is the mechanism behind it? How did the authors confirm capsule switching had occurred? Why is it advantageous for Neisseria meningitidis to undergo capsule switching? Why is the capsule itself advantageous? http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/?p=184 Our paper for the next meeting is below, and I'll have some basic questions to help guide you by next week. schoen-et-al http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/?p=165 Hey guys, please read this paper for this week. ng154 http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/?p=161 meningo_vaccine http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/?p=177 Congratulations to Jing, Mark and Sanil! Manuscript "Evaluating the protein coding potential of exonized transposable element sequences" is accepted for publication in Biology Direct. http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/?p=6 The ESBG welcomes new Bioinformatics PhD students Andrew Conley and Lee Katz. http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/?p=7