To advance molecular evolutionary analyses and genomics in clinical settings a team of scientists from the Leibniz IZW, the Australian Museum and MDC have developed a method for identifying any genome sequence located next to a known sequence. The results are reported in “Methods in Ecology and Evolution”.

A large grant under the NIH’s 4D Nucleome Program supports MDC scientist Ana Pombo’s work as a member of a multi-team consortium led by UC San Diego in the U.S. The team will investigate how DNA organizes inside cell nuclei and functions in space and time.

Kyle Harrington will lead a new MDC technology platform developing new tools to process any type of imaging data. The new unit will support the Helmholtz Imaging Platform (HIP), a joint effort by the MDC and two other centers to advance image data acquisition, preparation and analysis.