Adam and others have developed a novel set of models to estimate context-specific methylation levels in any sample regardless of the availability of a reference genome. See manuscript at BioRxiv.

Congratulations to Brigitte for being awarded an NIH Training Grant Fellowship for her studies of plant epimutations.

Pat was named the Cynthia Kenyon Awardee at the Genetics Graduation Event. This award recognizes a student based on excellence in academics, research and leadership. This is well deserved. Congratulations Pat!

Pat just submitted his study that he started as an undergraduate. Taught himself programming with help from the lab. Nice work. bioRxiv

Another preprint from the lab on extensive natural variation of DNA methylation between angiosperm species bioRxiv

A truly collaborative effort put forth to understand the origins and evolutionary consequences of gene body DNA methylation in plant genomes. bioRxiv

Congratulations to Madeline Steffensen for being awarded a 2015 CURO Research Assistantship.