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Javan Okendo

@javanokendo.bsky.social
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Led the completion of the zebrafish reference genome, advancing genomic resources for the research community.

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Javan Okendo @javanokendo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Apart from my research with #zebrafish, I am also a farmer. 🌱 Farming is both an art and a deeply therapeutic experience; Here’s a glimpse of my #sugarcane farm somewhere in Africa. 🌾🌍 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social
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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Just listening to this song for no reason. youtu.be/_lt4O-EHNnw?...
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The Clash - Clampdown (Official Audio)
YouTube video by theclashVEVO
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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I spend most of my time doing very basic research, but I am at a symposium to honor Dan Kastner whom I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with a couple times. It is jarring to see actual patients with diseases my lab helped model in zebrafish and makes me a little proud we could help.
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Javan Okendo @javanokendo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The latest digest from the National Bureau of Economic Research
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Javan Okendo @javanokendo.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Our paper just appeared online @eLife: Immunoglobulin M regulates airway hyperresponsiveness independent of T helper 2 allergic inflammation doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Immunoglobulin M regulates airway hyperresponsiveness independent of T helper 2 allergic inflammation
Immunoglobulin M has other functions beyond antibody class switching that have implications in asthma treatment.
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Javan Okendo @javanokendo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🎉 Excited to share our new preprint presenting a complete de novo assembly of the zebrafish genome; a major advance for zebrafish genomics and research! 🧬 Full paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @modelzebrafish.bsky.social
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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Wow indeed. This is a disaster for U.S. science in so many ways. We're losing the future.
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Have you heard of the Zebrafish Rock! Slack Pro tankspace? Sponsored by ZFIN, it acts as the premier source for questions and queries for the #zebrafish community and beyond! If you are keen to join, please fill out this Google form at our website: linktr.ee/zebrafishrock
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Zebrafish Rock! | Linktree
Award-winning home tank for all things zebrafish!
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Javan Okendo @javanokendo.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
🚨 New #zebrafish reference genomes released! Both TU & AB assemblies now include long-missing regions; centromeres, telomeres, and segmental duplications (SDs). A major step toward complete, accurate models for functional & comparative genomics. 🧬🐟 #Genomics #T2T #Zebrafish
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Javan Okendo @javanokendo.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Exciting new #genomics resource! A high‑quality, chromosome‑level genome assembly of the garden slug (Deroceras laeve) is now available. academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
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Vikram Paralkar @paralkarlab.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Out in Nature from @glennislogsdon.bsky.social. Amazing work on human centromeres and their evolution! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The variation and evolution of complete human centromeres - Nature
A comparison of two complete sets of human centromeres reveals that the centromeres show at least a 4.1-fold increase in single-nucleotide variation compared with their unique flanks, and up to 3-fold...
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
We are looking for a new director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center! Please spread the word: www.genome.gov/careers-trai...
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Director, NIH Intramural Sequencing Center
NHGRI seeks to identify an outstanding Director to lead its NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) within its Division of Intramural Research (DIR).
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Genome in a Bottle Consortium @genomeinabottle.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
We are excited to release several new GIAB products in advance of #ASHG23, including v1.0 TR and X&Y benchmarks, corrected GRCh38 reference, stratifications for T2T-CHM13, RNA-seq, GIAB tumor/normal data, and a v1.0 T2T-HG002 assembly with #T2T. Details at www.nist.gov/programs-pro...
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Sarah Paramore, PhD @parahsaramore.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Gotta admit that a day 2 zebrafish embryo is a lot cuter than a day 2 mouse embryo 🐠🧪🔬
Roughly 50 hpf zebrafish embryo
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