• Question: have you had any major breakthroughs in your work yet?

    Asked by zanbabe to Carla, Madgie, Nick, Vicky, Werner on 15 Nov 2013. This question was also asked by thequestionmaker.
    • Photo: Werner Muller

      Werner Muller answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      We have found out how the immune system is regulated in the gut (at least a few important findings there). We also determined the genes that are needed for lymphocytes to migrate to the gut.

    • Photo: Marlene Lorgen

      Marlene Lorgen answered on 20 Nov 2013:

      We have identified a gene in Atlatnic salmon which has 2 copies compared to only 1 in other fishes, birds and mammals. The cool thing about this is that the 2 copies seem to have evolved different functions since they were duplicated. We are now working on finding out how they achieve these different functions as their DNA sequences are very similar!

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