Normans news feed

Our "short reads"-paper in Genome Research

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:54:14 GMT

Another one: Today Stephan and Korbinian's Genome Research article appeared (online), and I am proud to have contributed:

Stephan Ossowski, Korbinian Schneeberger, Richard M. Clark, Christa Lanz, Norman Warthmann and Detlef Weigel
Sequencing of natural strains of Arabidopsis thaliana with short reads
Genome Res. published online Oct 29, 2008

The paper is open access and you can download it from here:
http://genome.cshlp.org/cgi/reprint/gr.080200.108v2

Most importantly, the software (Shore) is available as well, here:
http://1001genomes.org/downloads/

Our MBE paper appeared!

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:54:38 GMT

I just noticed that our paper appeared in the May issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Warthmann N, Das S, Lanz C, Weigel D.
Comparative analysis of the MIR319a microRNA locus in Arabidopsis and related Brassicaceae.
Mol Biol Evol. 2008 May;25(5):892-902.

We published OPEN ACCESS and this is the link to the paper:
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/25/5/892

I will be talking at the XX INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF GENETICS in Berlin

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:40:45 GMT

My Abstract
Gene Silencing by Artificial miRNAs: A Tool to Guide More Green Revolutions?
has been selected for oral presentation in the session CSI2 Genetics and World Hunger at the XX International Congress of Genetics held in Berlin, July 12th-17th 2008. (http://www.geneticsberlin2008.com/)

I will be up
Day: Thursday 17 July 2008
Time: 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm
Room: Hall 3

My rice paper is published

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:34:43 GMT

I am happy to announce that my paper on the application of artificial miRNAs in rice has just appeared in PLoS ONE.
http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0001829

The corresponding press release can be found here:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/plos-lcb031908.php
http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/08031910.htm

A German version including a picture is here:
http://tinyurl.com/242rpj

Welcome to the news feed of Norman Warthmann

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:58:51 GMT

This is a beta. I am thinking that there might be people out there who are interested what I am up to.
On this feed I will every once in a while post recent developments, my endeavors, meetings, talks and other plans. Feel free to contact me and we can do things together. I will try this for a while and see.

so long, cheers

Norman