Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution
Research at the Center explores the evolution and interaction of genomes of diverse organisms that play significant roles in environmental biology and human health.
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About Josephine Bay Paul

The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution is dedicated to the memory of Josephine Bay Paul (1900-1962), a leader in industry, education, and the arts in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

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The Keck Facility

The Keck Facility at the Josephine Bay Paul Center (JBPC) is equipped for Next-Gen sequencing. While the JBPC has priority use of the facility, it is available to other outside users within the Woods Hole community.

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Careers at JBPC

Postdoctoral Scientist - Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Transgenerational Inheritance

A postdoctoral research position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Kristin Gribble at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. The Gribble lab studies the mechanisms and evolution of the biology of aging, and maternal and transgenerational effects on offspring phenotype. We use rotifers as a model system for our work. For more information about our lab’s work, see gribblebiolab.org.

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Featured Learning Experience

Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structures (STAMPS)

The STAMPS course promotes dialogue and the exchange of ideas between experts in analysis of metagenomic data and offers interdisciplinary bioinformatic and statistical training to practitioners of molecular microbial ecology and genomics.

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New Publications

van Daalen SF, Hernández,CM, Caswell H, Neubert MG, and Gribble KE. The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output. The American Naturalist.Published online March 28, 2022 doi/10.1086/718716. Epub ahead of print.

Rodriguez F, Yushenova IA, DiCorpo D, Arkhipova IR. Bacterial N4-methylcytosine as an epigenetic mark in eukaryotic DNA. Nat Commun. 2022 Feb 28;13(1):1072. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28471-w. PMID: 35228526.

Paul BG, Eren AM. Eco-evolutionary significance of domesticated retroelements in microbial genomes. Mob DNA. 2022 Feb 23;13(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s13100-022-00262-6. PMID: 35197094; PMCID: PMC8867640.

Bronikowski AM, Meisel RP, Biga PR, Walters JR, Mank JE, Larschan E, Wilkinson GS, Valenzuela N, Conard AM, de Magalhães JP, Duan JE, Elias AE, Gamble T, Graze RM, Gribble KE, Kreiling JA, Riddle NC. Sex-specific aging in animals: Perspective and future directions. Aging Cell. 2022 Feb;21(2):e13542. doi: 10.1111/acel.13542. Epub 2022 Jan 23. PMID: 35072344; PMCID: PMC8844111.

Trigodet F, Lolans K, Fogarty E, Shaiber A, Morrison HG, Barreiro L, Jabri B, Eren AM. High molecular weight DNA extraction strategies for long-read sequencing of complex metagenomes. Mol Ecol Resour. 2022 Jan 23. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13588. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35068060.

 

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