Devin is heading out to the Oxford Nanopore New York Community meeting this week to learn from the community as well as present on the Alaska MinION Hackathons. You can follow along with the action on Twitter below: #nanoporeconf Tweets
Read MoreIt is starting to feel like winter in Fairbanks! FPES is giving Alex and I reasons to get outside and enjoy the snow…and the soil.
Read MoreThe Drown lab is at it again! The annual MinION Hackathon began on Sunday, and UAF graduate students, undergraduate students and friends were invited to use this revolutionary technology, sequencing DNA samples on their own. Learning genomics can be fun, just ask the Hackathon participants and their “minion” accomplices.
Read MoreAlexandra Keller, a bright new mind to UAF, is the newest (and youngest) member of the Drown lab! On Thursday, Alex assisted with soil core collection at the Fairbanks Permafrost Experimental Station (FPES). It was her first time in the field and it will be her first time working in a greenhouse come the week […]
Read MoreGiven winter’s rapid approach, the permafrost experimental plots are getting special attention. Preemptive vegetation surveying and soil core collections are propelling the Drown lab into a future greenhouse hibernation…and I am excited about it! Do you know what this means? Vegetation surveying, soil samples and an empty greenhouse? Sounds like a pilot study to me. […]
Read MoreThis week I got to check out the US Army Corps of Engineers’ research stomping grounds, also known as the Fairbanks Permafrost Experiment Station (FPES). Accompanied by my proficient permafrost guides, Jackson and Alex, I explored this unique study site. Together we drilled soil cores, slogged through the rain and battled prolific mosquitoes. Fun field […]
Read MoreOn August 20th, Biology and Wildlife graduate students and researchers traveled to UAF’s Toolik Field Station for an awakening taste of arctic atmosphere. Devin and I used this nine hour road trip north of Fairbanks for investigation…in the 68th degree. Toolik provided an opportunity to use the MinION sequencing capabilities in the field and sample […]
Read MoreLauren, Maddie, and Pat have been working hard this summer doing DNA extractions from our permafrost tunnel soil cores. They took a moment during one of long incubation times to snap a few pictures from inside the bubble of the ancient DNA lab at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.
Read MoreMaddie, Anastasia, and Devin attended the 9th annual University of Alaska Biomedical Research Conference (UA-BRC). For the undergraduates, this was their first research conference and they presented their work using the MinION nanopore sequencer to explore genomics. As you can see below, they drew a crowd to their poster. This two-day conference showcased biomedical and One Health related research from […]
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