Helping to Solve the 9 Billion-People Question : Arizona Genomics Institute

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Web Name: Helping to Solve the 9 Billion-People Question : Arizona Genomics Institute

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The Arizona Genomics Institute (AGI) was founded in 2002 when it built and distributed a BAC-based physical map of the rice genome (Oryza sativa vg. japonica, cv. Nipponbare), and led the US effort to sequence rice chromosomes 3 and 10, as part of the 10 nation, $200M International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP). Since then, AGI has either lead or played significant roles in 100s of genome sequencing projects that include Maize and the 27 species of the genus Oryza.Throughout the years, AGI has kept pace with the rapidly changing landscape of sequencing technology and presently operates a PacBio Certified Service Center for both in house and contract research projects.What separates AGI’s sequencing facility from others is our commitment to producing the highest quality long-read data available (i.e. CLR or HiFi), which in-turn, leads to our ability to assemble near-gap free genomes of any size – a.k.a. Platinum Standard Reference Sequences (PSRefSeq).This commitment and confidence begins with AGI’s highly skilled staff that have the knowledge and experience to isolate high-quality, high-molecular weight DNA from almost any organism, which stems from over 40 years of experience in HMW DNA extraction.If you want the highest quality data available for your sequencing projects, at a fair price, send Dave Kudrna or Rod Wing an email at dkudrna@arizona.edu; rwing@arizona.edu and we can discuss your project. Pacbio Sequencing at the University of Arizona !!! AGI is an Approved PacBio Certified Service ProviderThe Arizona Genomics Institute recently acquired a Pacific Biosciences Sequel state-of-the-art long-read sequencing instrument that is now available for service project sequencing. AGI has developed robust pipelines for sequencing whole genomes, transcriptomes and BAC clones. Pacbio sequencing uses Single Molecule Real Time sequencing of large templates to produce extremely long reads.Click Here for More Details BAC/EST Resources Available for DistributionLibraries: 365Clones: 15,083,328 ABOR Confirms Five New Regents Professors at UA Posted by webmaster The Arizona Board of Regents on April 11 confirmed the appointments of University of Arizona faculty members Alfred McEwen, John Rutherfoord, Dr. Marvin Slepian, Rod Wing and Lucy Ziurys as Regents' Professors.The title of Regents’ Professor is reserved for full professors whose exceptional achievements merit national and international distinction. Regents' Professor appointments are limited to no more than 3 percent of the total number of the university’s tenured and tenure track faculty members.Rod Wing has had a remarkable career in plant science. To read the information that plant genomes carry, their DNA must be turned into libraries: cut into shorter, overlapping pieces and inserted into vectors that can be propagated, stored and, most importantly, precisely sequenced. In the early 1990s, when the field of genomics began to explode, most available vectors were based on yeast artificial chromosomes, which were nimble enough to accommodate very large pieces of DNA but had the inconvenient habit of rearranging the inserted DNA in ways that no longer mirrored its original structure. This serious hurdle was overcome when Wing developed BACs – artificial chromosomes based on bacteria rather than yeast. Many years have passed, but BACs remain the cornerstone on which DNA libraries from plants and all sorts of other organisms are still constructed.Armed with unique tools, several of which he developed, Wing moved on to tackle one of the most formidable challenges in plant sciences: the sequencing on the genome of rice, a crop eaten daily by more than 3 billion people worldwide. Wing was the U.S. leader of the 10-nation team that sequenced the rice genome, the completion of which was announced in Tucson in November 2004 and published in Nature in 2005. Rice was the first crop genome to be sequenced and remains the highest-quality genome available for any crop.Since 2005, Wing has continued his work on many other genome projects including maize, Drosophila, or the common fruit fly, and the wild relatives of rice.Wing has been recognized by numerous awards, including being elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this year. He is director of the Arizona Genomics Institute and the Bud Antle Endowed Chair Professor in the School of Plant Sciences' Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.His commitment to excellence is also revealed by his service and teaching record at the UA. He has taught several undergraduate Honors Colloquia, all centered on understanding and solving the problem of feeding the world’s growing population. He is also dedicated to outreach for elementary school students and their families, and introduces them to the plant sciences at Plant Science Family Nights.https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/abor- ... new-regents-professors-ua

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