A one-minute summary of "Systematic discovery of antiphage defense systems in the microbial pangenome" by Doron et. al Some of the most useful tools in the molecular biologists toolkit come from using defense systems of prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea). These defenses protect the prokaryotes from bacteriophages (aka "phages" - viruses that infect bacteria). A new study in … Continue reading New Antiviral Defense Systems Discovered

Greetings Montana INBRE Project Leaders, Mentors and former and current students: If you know an undergraduate who’s interested in gaining High Performance Computing skills, South Dakota State University is now accepting applications for its 2018 High Performance Computing (HPC) Research Experience for Undergraduates. This is an intensive 10-week program for HPC and data analysis research … Continue reading Research training opportunity

For Journal Club Journal Clubs are common at research universities.  The purpose of these clubs is to practice reading and evaluating primary literature.  In our journal club, the paper will be read during the meeting and we will walk through every experiment as a group. On January 12, members of the Graff Lab and anyone … Continue reading Journal Club: TRIM Proteins and Autophagy