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The Arizona Genomics Institute (AGI) was formed in May 2002 when Dr. Rod Wing moved his lab from Clemson University to the University of Arizona, Tucson. 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 recently moved to the brand new Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building on the northeast part of campus near the Medical School. AGI currently employees about 40 hard working scientists and we are funded primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State, Education and Extension Service (USDA-CSREES) 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 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. |
