The Group

What's New

Fresh off the press:

Morandin, C., Brendel, V.P., Sundström, L.; Helanterä, H. & Mikheyev, A. (2019) Changes in gene DNA methylation and expression networks accompany caste specialization and age-related physiological changes in a social insect methylation. Molecular Ecology, 28, 1975-1993. [PubMed ID: 30809873] [online article] [PDF]

The future of computational genomics:

  Brendel, V.P. (2018) From small RNA discoveries to a new paradigm in computational genomics? New Phytol. 220, 659-660. [PubMed ID: 30324739] [online article] [PDF]

  Check out our new bgRAMOSE Jetstream image!

 

TSRchitect is now available as a Bioconductor R package!

Brendel group in the Indiana Daily Student news (Dec. 12, 2016)

Volker Brendel elected AAAS Fellow (Oct. 2016); IU News Release (Nov. 21, 2016)

Check out our github site!


Group:

The Brendel Group provides domain expertise to advise the Jetstream national science and engineering cloud project.

V. Brendel serves on the CyVerse External Advisory Board.

V. Brendel serves as Consulting Editor of The Plant Cell.


PlantGDB News:

xGDBvm on YouTube

Undergraduate Students



We usually employ one or two undergraduates during the terms and in the summer to help with Web and database programming projects.

Megan Houterloot. Junior in the B.S. Informatics program with a Cognate in Pre-health Studies and Minors in Biology and Spanish. Hometown: Fishers, Indiana. In Brendel Group since June 2016, engaged in computational studies on long introns in insect genomes.