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Janet Higgins

Computational Biologist

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Biography.

Contact details:

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janet.higgins@earlham.ac.uk 

Janet is a Computational Biologist in the Swarbreck Group. Since joining the Earlham Institute in 2012, Janet has worked on a range of datasets; sRNA-Seq, BS-Seq, FAIRE-Seq and ChIP-Seq and currently specializes in RNA-seq. Her main focus is crops, but she has worked on a variety of plant and animal genomes. Janet participated in the DEANN Exchange, spending two months working at INTA, Buenos Aires. She continues her collaboration with the Sunflower group working on gene co-expression analysis and the Forest Tree group working on marker mapping in Eucalyptus. In addition, Janet hosts students under the Immersive Visitors Training Programme (IVTP).
 
Janet is an active member of the BSBI and participates in plant recording in both Norfolk and Scotland towards the Atlas 2020 project.

Publications.

Aug 2011

Bancroft I., Morgan C., Fraser F., Higgins J., Wells R., Clissold L., Baker D., Long Y., Meng J., Wang X., Liu S., Trick M.

Dissecting the genome of the polyploid crop oilseed rape by transcriptome sequencing.

Nature Biotechnology

Publishers version: doi:10.1038/nbt.1926

Dec 2018

Martin A. C., Borrill P., Higgins J., Alabdullah A., Ramirez-Gonzalez R. H., Swarbreck D., Uauy C., Shaw P., Moore G.

Genome-Wide Transcription During Early Wheat Meiosis Is Independent of Synapsis, Ploidy Level, and the Ph1 Locus.

Frontiers in plant science

Publishers version: doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.01791

Jan 2018

Ward N. J., Green D., Higgins J., Dalmay T., Münsterberg A., Moxon S., Wheeler G. N.

microRNAs associated with early neural crest development in Xenopus laevis.

BMC Genomics

Publishers version: doi:10.1186/s12864-018-4436-0

Jul 2017

Rey M. D., Martin A., Higgins J., Swarbreck D., Uauy C., Shaw P., Moore G.

Exploiting the ZIP4 homologue within the wheat Ph1 locus has identified two lines exhibiting homoeologous crossoverin wheat-wild relative hybrids

Molecular Breeding

Publishers version: doi:10.1007/s11032-017-0700-2

Jul 2017

Moschen S., Di Rienzo J. A., Higgins J., Tohge T., Watanabe M., González S., Rivarola M., García-García F., Dopazo J., Hopp H. E., Hoefgen R., Fernie A. R., Paniego N., Fernández P., Heinz R. A.

Integration of transcriptomic and metabolic data reveals hub transcription factors involved in drought stress response in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.).

Plant molecular biology

Publishers version: doi:10.1007/s11103-017-0625-5

Apr 2010

Higgins J. A., Bailey P. C., Laurie D. A.

Comparative genomics of flowering time pathways using Brachypodium distachyon as a model for the temperate grasses

PLoS ONE

Publishers version: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010065

Feb 2010

Wright J. M., Febrer M., McKenzie N., Byrne M. E., Walsh S., Higgins J., Bevan M. W.

Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

Nature

Publishers version: doi:10.1038/nature08747

Oct 2019

Moschen S., Marino J., Nicosia S., Higgins J., Alseekh S., Astigueta F., Bengoa Luoni S., Rivarola M., Fernie A. R., Blanchet N., Langlade N. B., Paniego N., Fernández P., Heinz R. A.

Exploring gene networks in two sunflower lines with contrasting leaf senescence phenotype using a system biology approach.

BMC Plant Biology

Publishers version: doi:10.1186/s12870-019-2021-6

Awards.

Daphne Jackson Fellowship 2004-2006 

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