Sabbatical visitor Rod Wing wins prestigious Humboldt Award
Rod is spending a year-long sabbatical in the Department, with the aim of developing new strategies for comparative genomics in both rice and Brassicaceae.
Professor Rod Wing, Director of the Arizona Genomics Institute at the University of Arizona, has won … Read the rest
PNAS paper on rice varation published
We were part of a large international collaboration that used Perlegen ultra-high density microarrays to interrogate 20 diverse landraces and modern varieties of rice.
This work resulted in the first rice HapMap and laid the foundation for large-scale genetic characterization … Read the rest
AENEAS and TRANSNET funded
Two new collaborative projects have recently been funded,
The EU project AENEAS–Acquired environmental epigenetics advances: from Arabidopsis to maize, and the BMBF-GABI project TRANSNET–Transcriptional networks and their evolution in the Brassicaceae.
AENEAS is led by Serena Varotto (Padova), and includes … Read the rest
