Was that a scientific baptism?

The two scared PhD students had only that question in mind…

The opinion poll is open!

 

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Get The Party Started

Our President, Elena, Giusi, Mara and Irena celebrated their birthday last Friday.  Party entertainment consisted of tasty food, funny presents and the piano player. Have a look at the video and at the pictures!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Check it out!

An extra-terrestrial being came to visit us! His name is Fabio King Marroni. He tried to sabotage the lab but we stopped him just in time.


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Summertime at IGA

Friuli Innovazione organized a BBQ to spend some time together before going on holiday. Refreshments were very appreciated!




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Cristian and Julieta wedding party

Another person of IGA staff got married this year. Congratulations Cristian and Julieta! We had a very pleasant stay at your party. Some pictures to remember that night:

 

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Federica’s wedding party

Our Lab Manager Federica got married three months ago. She organized a party for all of us to celebrate her marriage. Congratulations again!!!!

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Facebook integration

Brief post from the sysadmin :-)

We are testing some facebook integration plugins, in order to facilitate and automate the sharing of the content, so don’t be afraid if you see something strange.

By the way, any suggestions? Right now we are testing both sociable’s opengraph plugin and wordbooker.

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Memorable lunch

Today, perhaps for the first time, Elena had lunch with us. We were really afraid she was going to starve one more day.

A few minutes later Vittorio came to the lunch room and he was ready to eat but suddenly he realised he was in a great danger: Federica had a whole melon with her and was cutting it. His face turned pale and before fainting he flew away to come back an hour later when the territory was free. Unfortunately we did not shot a picture at his face. It would have been memorable.

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IGA Summer School: the place to be!

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) has recently revolutionized the approach to genome sequencing enabling the sequencing of billions of bases in massively parallel reactions. These new sequencing technologies, collectively referred to as either ‘ultra-deep’ sequencing or ‘massively parallel’ sequencing, are currently used for SNP discovery, structural variants detection, genome-wide measurement of transcripts levels and a number of other applications and are revolutionizing biological research.

The course took place at Istituto di Genomica Applicata (IGA) and consisted of a general introduction to NGS technologies, an extensive wet-lab session focused on Illumina sequencing, an introduction to necessary hardware infrastructures, a basic course on Linux command line, a data analysis session comprehending sequence alignment, de novo assembly, SNP and structural variant detection, rare variants identification; finally, external speakers proved their experience on particular IT solutions, a particular tool for data analysis, Small RNA-seq, RNA-seq and target resequencing.

Finally, course attendees had the possibility to discuss personally with speakers and other attendees to exchange problems and ideas in a very stimulating environment.

We hope attendees enjoyed the course and will write their comments on the blog!

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IGA on TV!

To celebrate our Illumina HiSeq2000, the TV came to visit us last Friday: have a look!

 

And on the regional TV news at the minute 09:35

Other than the TV, there were Cristiana Compagno (University of Udine Rector), Sergio Cecotti (President of Friuli Innovazione) and Renzo Tondo (President of the Region).

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