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2026-07-28T09:25:57+01:0028 July 2026|
Professor Mark Blaxter, Head of the Tree of Life programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, traces a path from books to nematodes, community gardens to new technologies – guided by a lifelong interest in the world around him.
2026-05-07T11:25:06+01:007 May 2026|
With recent advances in pangenomics, we can now analyse mosquito DNA at scale, using graph-based pangenomes to uncover their diversity and track how they adapt.
2026-04-21T11:41:38+01:0026 March 2026|
In this blog, we hear from Wellcome Sanger Institute PhD student James McCulloch about his favourite invertebrates, the springtails, and their extraordinary cryptic diversity.
2026-04-08T09:58:39+01:0029 July 2025|
PhD Student Amjad Khalaf shares how his research on microsporidia is creating new high-quality genomes to help better understand how they cause, and sometimes prevent, disease.
2025-07-17T10:57:33+01:0018 July 2025|
Filled with colour-coding chromosomes and genome re-arrangements, learn more about some of our resident moths and butterflies that have been genome sequenced at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. With a bit of luck, you could identify these colourful creatures yourself next time you are out and about.
2025-07-18T10:16:47+01:003 July 2025|
Enter the absorbing world of sponges, the intricate animals that have evolved to inhabit all corners of our Earth’s waterways and oceans. Thanks to a worldwide collaboration of sponge scientists through the Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics project, which is led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, more than 50 published high-quality sponge genomes and counting are now freely accessible to the research community.
2025-06-05T16:44:05+01:005 June 2025|
How do we get diverse samples into Sanger? We chat to the Sample Management team for the Tree of Life programme at Sanger to understand more about how we manage to get samples of eukaryotic organisms for sequencing from all around the world.
2025-04-30T00:18:50+01:0029 April 2025|
We explore how the Barcoding for Beginners programme and BIOSCAN project are using genetic tools to investigate insect diversity across the UK.
2024-10-31T13:33:31+00:0025 October 2024|
To get into the spirit of the spooky season, read about some curiously creepy creatures whose DNA has been sequenced by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
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Hinxton, Cambridgeshire,
CB10 1SA. UK
+44 (0)1223 834244
Wellcome Genome Campus,
Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA. UK
+44 (0)1223 834244
