Hey all,
I'm Kim Ferguson, and I'm a PhD researcher at Wageningen University in The Netherlands, though I'm originally from Canada and completed my MSc Ecology at the University of Bremen in Germany.
Now, as I mentioned I have a background in ecology (behavioural and population ecology to be more precise), and little-to-no molecular biology experience, so switching to a project that aims to do whole genome assembly and analysis on arthropod biocontrol species is quite a leap, and I'm feeling the difference in methodlogies and mentalities to be... interesting? stressful? We'll see, but essentially I'm doing a lot of knowledge gap-filling at the moment.
The first obstacle is picking a sequencing method and subsequent assembly method, so I hope to gain some insight from the SeqAnswers reasources
Where did I hear about this site? A few different resources, but definitely Ekblom and Wolf's 2014 article, "A field guide to whole-genome sequencing, assembly and annotation" played a part.
So. If you're interested, my project is RP1 of the BINGO-ITN: Breeding Invertebrates for Next Generation BioControl, an Innovative Training Network. I'll be working with Amblyseius swirskii, Nesidiocoris tenuis, and Trichogramma brassicae - you can go to www.bingo-itn.eu for more info.
I'm Kim Ferguson, and I'm a PhD researcher at Wageningen University in The Netherlands, though I'm originally from Canada and completed my MSc Ecology at the University of Bremen in Germany.
Now, as I mentioned I have a background in ecology (behavioural and population ecology to be more precise), and little-to-no molecular biology experience, so switching to a project that aims to do whole genome assembly and analysis on arthropod biocontrol species is quite a leap, and I'm feeling the difference in methodlogies and mentalities to be... interesting? stressful? We'll see, but essentially I'm doing a lot of knowledge gap-filling at the moment.
The first obstacle is picking a sequencing method and subsequent assembly method, so I hope to gain some insight from the SeqAnswers reasources
Where did I hear about this site? A few different resources, but definitely Ekblom and Wolf's 2014 article, "A field guide to whole-genome sequencing, assembly and annotation" played a part. So. If you're interested, my project is RP1 of the BINGO-ITN: Breeding Invertebrates for Next Generation BioControl, an Innovative Training Network. I'll be working with Amblyseius swirskii, Nesidiocoris tenuis, and Trichogramma brassicae - you can go to www.bingo-itn.eu for more info.