Rod Wing
Director of Arizona Genomics Institute
Professor, Plant Science
Regents Professor
Bud Antle Endowed Chair For Excellence, Agriculture & Life Sciences
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Graduate Faculty, Member
Keating Building, Room 253
Research Interests
Comparative Evolutionary Genomics of Crop Plants (Rice, Oryza, Maize, Cotton, Brassica, Amborella)
Genome Sequencing and Physical Mapping
Bioinformatics
BAC Library Construction & Distribution (www.genome.arizona.edu/orders)
Education and Outreach - Plant Science Family Nights
Degrees
- 1980 B.A. Biochemistry, UC Berkeley
- 1987 Ph.D. Genetics, UC Davis
- 1987-1990, Postdoctoral Research Associate, USDA-UC Berkely Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany, CA
- 1990-1991, Research Associate, NSF Plant Science Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY