This visit was invited by Jim Giovanonni from Dec 9th to Dec 25th in 2018. During the visit, Yanna and professor Giovanonni finished the manuscript describing LOB1 regulating fruit cell wall metabolism and exchanged ideas about future joint research activities on LOB1. Professor Giovanonni also invited Yanna for longer visit in the following year.
Through communication with people in Giovanonni lab, Yanna got the information of new sequence technology which are becoming popular now. Such as the 3′ RNA-seq method, which yields only one sequence per transcript. In contrast to traditional RNA-Seq, 3′ RNA-seq has simpler library prep protocol, lower cost, less sensitive to RNA sample quality, 96 libraries per lane. Data analysis requires a reference genome with good annotation which is perfect for model species, like tomato. Also DAP-seq which might be a replacement of Chip-seq. Besides Yanna took part in the Endia Blunt’s final defence and visited the green house of Boyce Thompson institute.
