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“A new high quality genome assembly for the Federally Threatened Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)” was just published in G3:Genes|Genomes|Genetics!
You can find the genome assembly on NCBI under accession GCA_041296385.1. You can also find additional associated data, such as repeat/gene annotations, linkage maps, and code, on Figshare and on my Github.
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Check out our new pre-print for a new Florida Scrub-Jay genome assembly and annotation. Long-read sequencing and a linkage map helped us add ~260 Mbp of sequence and find a few more chromosomes in comparison to previous assemblies.
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I was interviewed by Science Corps Education & Research Fellow Swastika Issar (in partnership with the Central Visayan Institute Foundation) on my experience as a Filipino-American woman in STEM. There aren’t many Filipinos and Fil-Ams in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and we often go unseen (like so many others) due to being lumped under the monolith of “Asian”. I was honored to share my story and research!
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I was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation! I’m so grateful to the mentors and colleagues who helped me along the way, especially my advisor Dr. Nancy Chen and the whole Chen lab.