Defining LGBTQ+ Publics Through Consumer Genomics

Single-cell genomics: defining microbiology's dark matter.

We all remember this experiment from freshman biology: Take a sterile swab, rub it along the inside of your cheek, and transfer the collected microbes to a sterile agar plate. After incubating the plate overnight at 37 °C, the agar will be awash in bacterial colonies, a glossy and somewhat smelly testament to the fact that humans, fundamentally, are giant microbial buses. Yet that picture, it t...

The “Second Generation”: LGBTQ Youth with LGBTQ Parents

Do lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) 1 parents have LGBTQ children? Yes, they do—sometimes—just as heterosexual and gender conforming parents do. Yet, research on the psychosocial development of LGBTQ youth has focused exclusively on adolescents from heterosexualand gender-conforming-parent families. This line of inquiry has revealed that LGBTQ identity formation can be a l...

1 Introducing LGBTQ psychology

Defining cell types and states with single-cell genomics.

A revolution in cellular measurement technology is under way: For the first time, we have the ability to monitor global gene regulation in thousands of individual cells in a single experiment. Such experiments will allow us to discover new cell types and states and trace their developmental origins. They overcome fundamental limitations inherent in measurements of bulk cell population that have...

Defining matroids through sequential selection

Let E be a finite set and S be a collection of subsets of E . For each x ∈ E let Sx = {S ∈ S | x ∈ S}. Suppose we choose elements x1, . . . , xn in such a way that we first choose x1 belonging to some set of Sx1 . For i = 2, . . . , n we choose xi belonging to some set of Sxi \(Sx1∪· · ·∪Sxi−1 ). We call the set {x1, . . . , xn} a sequential transversal of S , and we let TS be the set of all se...