AGI Director, Professor Rod Wing, has won a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

 UA and Tucson high school students will be involved in the research to help sequence the West African rice genome.

Dr. Rod Wing from the University of Arizona asked, "To Refseq or Reseq Oryza - That is the Question" on March 27, 2009 at the 4th Annual User Meeting.

The UA's Michael Cusanovich and Rod Wing and Tucson High science teacher Margaret Wilch took three of six statewide awards given by the Arizona Bioindustry Association.

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.

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.

Scientists embarking on an ambitious $29.5 million effort to uncover corn's genetic code will use an approach developed by UA researchers to drastically reduce the project's time and cost.