Projects
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Cell surface signalling laboratory
- Gavin Wright's team aims to discover entirely new signalling pathways by identifying novel cell surface receptor-ligand pairs
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Epigenetic mechanisms in health and disease
- Adrian Bird's Associate Faculty group studies the way chemical marking of chromosomes affects the activity of the genome in normal and diseased cells
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Epigenetic
reprogramming
- Wolf Reik's Associate Faculty group studies how processes that add additional information to the genome (known as epigenetics) enable reprogramming in stem cells and disease
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Experimental cancer genetics
- David Adams' team aims to understand mechanisms of cancer development by generating and characterising mutations in mice
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Gene expression
genomics
- Sarah Teichmann's team uses genomic approaches to study global regulation of gene expression in the mouse immune system
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Genetics of instinctive behaviour
- Darren Logan's team investigates the sensory mechanisms that regulate stereotyped social behaviour by altering selected genes in mice
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Haematological cancer genetics
- George Vassiliou's team studies the genes and genetic pathways involved in the development of haematological cancers
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Mouse cancer
genetics
- Pentao Liu's team uses genetic, genomic and biochemical approaches to understand cancer biology in mouse models
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Mouse developmental genetics
- Bill Skarnes' team uses mouse embryonic stem cells as a model of early development in the womb
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Mouse
genomics
- Allan Bradley's team uses disruption of genes in mouse embryonic stem cells to discover genes involved in cellular processes and diseases
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Systems
biology of bone
- Vijay Yadav's team uses mice as a model organism to identify the genes and their interactions that determine bone mass
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Vertebrate development and genetics
- Derek Stemple's team aims to understand the mechanistic basis of human genetic diseases by using zebrafish and Xenopus tropicalis as models
Collaborations and resources
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Ensembl genome
browser
- Produces genome databases for vertebrates and other eukaryotic species and makes this information freely available online
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Genome analysis pipelines
- The pipelines are dedicated to high-throughput sample logistics, genome-wide data generation, PCR target preparation for re-sequencing, genotyping, data quality control, analysis and storage
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Genome
Reference Consortium (GRC)
- Aims to ensure that the human, mouse and zebrafish reference assemblies are biologically relevant by closing gaps, fixing errors and representing complex variation
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HAVANA
- The HAVANA group provides the manual annotation of human, mouse, zebrafish and other vertebrate genomes that appears in the Vega browser
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High Throughput Gene Targeting (HTGT)
- Generates conditional targeted mutations in C57BL/6 embryonic stem cells
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Mouse Strain Genome
Sequencing
- Sequenced 17 key mouse strain genomes to provide genomic foundation for phenotypic study
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Mouse Resource Portal
- Provides unified access to mouse resources from the Institute or its collaborators, including BACs, gene targeting vectors, targeted embryonic stem cells, mutant mouse lines, and phenotypic data
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Mutagenic Insertion and Chromosome
Engineering Resource (MICER)
- Provides vector sequences and information on using MICER vectors for generating knockout mice and for chromosome engineering for the scientific community
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Non-Obese Diabetic (NOD) Mouse
- Sequenced the Insulin-dependent diabetes (Idd) regions in the non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse
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Sequencing
- The Institute harnesses cutting-edge technologies to generate DNA sequence in order to answer questions about biology and disease
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Sanger
Institute-EBI Single-Cell Genomics Centre
- Explores the DNA, RNA and epigenetic features of single cells in order to better understand normal biology and disease
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Sanger Institute Gene Trap Resource
(SIGTR)
- Catalogues more than 10,000 characterised lacZ-tagged insertional mutations in 129 mouse embryonic stem cells
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Vertebrate Genome Annotation
database (VEGA)
- A central repository for high-quality manual annotation of vertebrate finished genome sequence, including annotation of the mouse and zebrafish genomes
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Xenopus
tropicalis EST Project
- Generates 5' EST sequences from three Xenopus tropicalis cDNA libraries and makes these clones available through Geneservice
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Zebrafish
Mutation Resource
- Identifies, phenotypes and distributes a large number of chemically mutagenised zebrafish lines
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Zebrafish
Sequencing Project
- Produces regular sequence annotations and assemblies data through clone mapping and sequencing from BAC and PAC libraries and whole genome shotgun sequencing
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ZF-MODELS
- Data on mutations, microarrays and gene expression are mapped onto the genome, producing disease models, drug targets and insight into pathways of gene regulation

