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Institute Profile The Arizona Genomics Institute (AGI) was formed in 2002 when Dr. Rod Wing joined the School of Plant Sciences at University of Arizona . The primary focus of AGI is in the area of structural, evolutionary and functional genomics of crop plants. AGI is divided into 5 Centers each lead by a Center Leader and a senior Manager (BAC Library Construction Center, BAC/EST Resource Center, Sequencing & Physical Mapping Center [including: production sequencing and fingerprinting, and sequence finishing], Bioinformatics Center and the Evolutionary and Functional Genomics Center. AGI is housed in the state of the art Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building on the northeast part of campus near the Medical School. AGI currently employees about 30 scientists and is primarily funded through federal grants, private contracts, and the Bud Antle Endowed Chair in Plant Molecular Genetics. |
BAC/EST Resources Available for Distribution Libraries: 282 Clones: 13,857,050 Click here to place an order Submission to GenBank Traces: 3,155,630 Sequences: 3,806,420 nucleotide seq.es 42815 (All except GSS AND EST) 699773 EST (Expressed Sequence Tags) 3063832 GSS (Genome Survey Sequence) |
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AGI NEWS We are pleased to announce the initial release of the Oryza glaberrima genome from the Arizona Genomics Institute and the Rounsley Lab. O. glaberrima is a west African species of cultivated rice that was domesticated independently of Asian rice (O. sativa ssp. japonica and indica) about 3,500 years ago.O. glaberrima contains many important adaptive traits for cultivation in African soils and climates. Details here. March 2010 The NSF funded Maize Genome Sequencing Consortium is pleased to announce the release of a significantly improved version of the B73 Maize Genome Sequence: B73 RefGen_v2. Details here. February 2010 The complete set of maize FLcDNA clones is available for public distribution. This is the set described in the recent publication from AGI (Y. Yu), AGCOL (C. Soderlund) and Stanford (V. Walbot): . Sequencing, Mapping, and Analysis of 27,455 Maize Full-Length cDNAs. 2009. PLoS Genetics, November 2009, Volume 5 Issue 11, e1000740. The set of clones is named "ZM_BFzz" and is available from the AGI Resource Center. Details here. November 2009 The Maize Genome Sequencing Consortium publishes the B73 Reference Sequence today in Science. AGI played a leading role by selecting and validating a minimum tiling path of 16,000 BAC clones across the maize genome. Details here. November 2009 AGI Director, Professor Rod Wing, has won a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Details here. June 2009 NSF awards University of Arizona researchers $1.5 million to unlock the genetic code of West African cultivated rice. Details here. March 20, 2009 AGI releases an updated integrated physical and genetic map for maize (B73). March 20, 2009 AGI publicly releases Phase I AGP and pseudomolecules for the maize (B73) genome sequence. March 20, 2009 The maize (B73) Minimum Tiling Path (MTP) is publicly released. September 2008 AGI Director, Rod A. Wing, won the Award for Research Excellence from AZBio. Details here. October 2006 NSF Plant Genome Comparative Sequencing Program (PGCSP) Awards Iowa State University, AGI and University of Georgia Purdue and CSHL $816,000 to address the tempo (e.g., regular vs. episodic bursts), directionality (with respect to genomic contraction or expansion), and absolute scale of genome size change, over time, in a model system involving diploid and tetraploid cotton species. For award abstract and more about the NSF PGCSP. Details here. August 2006 NSF Plant Genome Program (PGP) awards the University of Wisconsin, AGI and Purdue University $796,000 comparatively analyzed the structure and function of centromere of rice chromosome 8 across the AA, BB, CC, EE, FF and GG genomes of rice. For award abstract and more about the NSF PGP. Details here. December 2005 The Oryza BAC library resource: Construction and analysis of 12 deep-coverage large-insert BAC libraries. Details here. November 2005 NSF awards WUGSC, CSHL, AGI and ISU $29.5M to sequence the corn genome. Press release. November 2005 AGI Director, Rod A. Wing, is appointed the first holder of the Bud Antle Endowed Chair of Excellence in Agriculture and Life Sciences. November 2005 AGI Director, Rod A. Wing, receives the CALS Research Faculty of the Year Award. Details here. |
