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Group Call

• Participants: Katie, Jonathan, Dongying, Stacia, Stephen, Josh, Sarah, Guillaume, Patrick, Krista

• MMI event at Tech Museum on June 30 in San Jose

• Stacia: JE's gender discrimination blog post

• Krista Kernoedle (summer intern) slides
  • Strain level variation in B. vulgatus
  • Genomic islands
  • Horizontal transfer as well as deletions
  • Genes may be in different order in non-reference genomes
  • Sequence conservation of variable vs. core genes?
  • Try other B. vulgatus reference genomes
  • Are reads mapping from other species (false positives)?
  • Repeat on other species

• Next week: shotmap