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<title>RIlab News</title><link>http://www.rilab.org/index.html</link><description>Hot News&#x21;</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra</dc:rights><dc:date>2012-04-20T13:27:52-07:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:10:04 -0700</lastBuildDate><item><title>We got it backwards</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2012-04-20T13:27:52-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/c017827d86dda66a7b198f84ff1db544-36.html#unique-entry-id-36</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/c017827d86dda66a7b198f84ff1db544-36.html#unique-entry-id-36</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The lab&rsquo;s paper describing the population genetics of a newly discovered 50Mb inversion (that&rsquo;s about the size of two Arabidopsis chromosomes) in the wild ancestor of maize has been accepted to Genetics.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Pioneer rocks</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2012-04-03T19:37:50-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/e81acbc26d9625b5f3c56667417afa8d-35.html#unique-entry-id-35</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/e81acbc26d9625b5f3c56667417afa8d-35.html#unique-entry-id-35</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Met with a bunch of great folks there, including the woman responsible for patenting a couple of genes for which our lab has found evidence of selection during modern breeding.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>MGC a success</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2012-03-19T16:20:05-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/3cd44f40ce95621f53db76e9e92f89ad-34.html#unique-entry-id-34</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/3cd44f40ce95621f53db76e9e92f89ad-34.html#unique-entry-id-34</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Lab members authored or coauthored eight posters and a talk at the MGC this year and survived two long nights of revelry, a 5-mile run, the largest bookstore in the world, and a sword-wielding belly-dancer.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Plant Molecular Breeding symposium</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2012-02-21T08:43:36-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/282ce31181e6d8ae7281c9fb5c559101-33.html#unique-entry-id-33</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/282ce31181e6d8ae7281c9fb5c559101-33.html#unique-entry-id-33</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The symposium, funded in equal parts by Pioneer Hi-Bred and UC Davis CAES, will be on April 20 and is organized by a group of graduate students including our own Paul Bilinski.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>tenure&#x21;</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2012-01-31T09:33:04-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/c4fc0aa122866b473b4b233f1f80d0e2-32.html#unique-entry-id-32</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/c4fc0aa122866b473b4b233f1f80d0e2-32.html#unique-entry-id-32</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Last Friday we got the word that Jeff&rsquo;s tenure application had been approved by CAP.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Maize meetings&#x21;</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2012-01-29T19:10:46-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/b72af4c7e2aa6b2c8cb62b0d2e91d2c3-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/b72af4c7e2aa6b2c8cb62b0d2e91d2c3-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Most the rest of the lab catches up with Jeff in Portland for the Maize Genetics Conference in Portland from Mar. 15-18, where we&rsquo;ll be presenting something like 8 posters (and hopefully a talk).  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CPB ahoy</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2012-01-16T23:20:00-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/56c2de9ef242360bb57287b086d9cd1f-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/56c2de9ef242360bb57287b086d9cd1f-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The lab is now part of the Center for Population Biology and the Population Biology graduate group.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>NRG cover</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2012-01-18T23:17:26-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/a2805d206205215eadd4a0115afe2f80-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/a2805d206205215eadd4a0115afe2f80-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Nature Reviews Genetics publishes our crop genomics review with Ed Buckler and Peter Morrell.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New faces in the lab</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-11-22T17:44:14-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/5b5ff0e39a56381dd81c20a91d52dc4b-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/5b5ff0e39a56381dd81c20a91d52dc4b-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Eric Fuchs has received a prestigious IANAS fellowship to come visit the lab for two months in the Summer of 2012 to work on rice population genetics.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>tb1 study in the news</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-09-28T19:13:56-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/0c992e6b53b940d1cadfb4fe9aabcdb2-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid 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in maize from low and high elevations in Mexico and S. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The other palomero genome</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-06-13T16:05:10-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/7c2db78a497800644b7f6c5926bbb0fb-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/7c2db78a497800644b7f6c5926bbb0fb-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Thanks to the seed grant, we will be able to test how well we can identify SNPs and other variants in this complex genome, with the goal of using the data for a future grant proposal.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A fond farewell</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-04-28T21:20:35-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/d4233c2a1da192624e859aa5f7b3baf6-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/d4233c2a1da192624e859aa5f7b3baf6-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[and Joost has helped to plan some of the long-term work currently underway in the lab.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New peeps</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-03-31T15:56:57-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/2248610a58f850603285b31502ffd60a-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/2248610a58f850603285b31502ffd60a-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Paul Bilinski has just joined the lab as a PhD student in Plant Biology.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Genome Center</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-03-01T07:55:05-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/a5572c99d363b4f8e67fe5e7ca0ec8e0-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/a5572c99d363b4f8e67fe5e7ca0ec8e0-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As of yesterday I&rsquo;m officially a faculty member of the UCD Genome Center.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Maize Genetics conference cover</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-03-10T08:29:44-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/b7cfcabd8359f05fd5548165c53026ad-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/b7cfcabd8359f05fd5548165c53026ad-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[...and the original:
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PECASE Awards announced</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-11-05T14:34:19-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/c4a5f178fa3f44650f7284e18334903a-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/c4a5f178fa3f44650f7284e18334903a-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The full press release can be seen here, and UCD news here and here.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>USDA funds Plant Exploration in Guatemala</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-10-15T13:16:23-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/aef75f0fa368e8de41f78ea492602c1d-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/aef75f0fa368e8de41f78ea492602c1d-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We will be genotyping the samples for 55,000 SNPs on Illumina&rsquo;s maize chip, to get an idea of the population genetics of Zea luxurians and for use in our study of the evolution of centromeres in Zea.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Takin&#x27; the message on the road</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-08-30T17:27:14-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/33c6e76e5eae32a42536f2fccd0b3d6d-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/33c6e76e5eae32a42536f2fccd0b3d6d-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jeff, Mark Millard, and a lot of Zea diploperennis seed.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Funds a rollin&#x27; in</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-07-14T18:33:09-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/8030b79aeb3a058a7c4dcdd34ffd0580-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/8030b79aeb3a058a7c4dcdd34ffd0580-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Laura Vann received a UC Davis Jastro Shields Research Grant to carry out work looking at transcriptome differences between populations and subspecies of Joshua Trees.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Guggenheim Fellow Ellstrand visits the lab</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-06-25T14:44:22-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/9c57530486e36843e7317873105ffa62-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/9c57530486e36843e7317873105ffa62-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I could not have received this without the longterm support of my department, my college, and the other wonderful folks at UC Riverside, not the least of whom are &lsquo;TeamEllstrand,&rsquo; the good-hearted and hard-working folks in my lab over three decades.&rdquo;
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>NSF funds maize centromere evolution</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-06-07T08:42:28-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/5814c72434b595a084ae29bba0c2b858-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/5814c72434b595a084ae29bba0c2b858-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Our lab will be using a variety of approaches to study the variation in and around maize centromeres in a broad sampling of maize landraces and a number of natural populations of teosinte.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New folks</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-03-29T11:40:31-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/043d97c83d1c5edb75016c7213ed2636-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/043d97c83d1c5edb75016c7213ed2636-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dianne Velasco, currently a Staff Research Associate at the USDA ARS Germplasm Repository here in Davis, will be starting her PhD in the Genetics Grad Group this Fall.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Maize hapmap in the news</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-11-20T13:54:46-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/334adabdc387179e20e762c1d0163d56-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/334adabdc387179e20e762c1d0163d56-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In a massive survey of genetic diversity in maize, also known as corn, researchers across the United States, have developed a gene map that should pave the way to significant improvements in a plant that is a major source of food, fuel, animal feed and fiber around the world.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Positive press on gene conversion in maize centromeres</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-02-22T13:54:18-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/154513262208c7d3ee0b9dc8e08a7f1b-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/154513262208c7d3ee0b9dc8e08a7f1b-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s already gotten some positive press in an accompanying commentary piece by Talbert & Henikoff and was noted in the research highlights section of Nature and by the maize genetics and genomics database editorial board.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>UC MEXUS funds phylogeography of Mexican persimmons</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-07-29T09:46:39-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/79180f18fea273c1d957a624d48abcba-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/79180f18fea273c1d957a624d48abcba-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There is at least one native domesticated species, &lsquo;zapote negro&rsquo; (D. digyna), and its distribution, along with those of other edible taxa, may be the result of anthropogenic assistance. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>USDA funds genome scan for yield in maize</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-07-22T09:46:26-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/c8090e3c03a496ef318ae7aec6f817da-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/c8090e3c03a496ef318ae7aec6f817da-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Assistant Professor Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra has been awarded a three-year $448,000 grant by the USDA/CSREES for his project &ldquo;Scanning for Yield: High-Throughput Discovery of Candidate Agronomic Loci for Marker-Assisted Selection in Maize&rdquo; which takes a novel, population genetics approach to identifying candidate genes. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>One Outstanding Old Oak</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-12-23T09:40:49-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/3ac7d0a385b5fd4424fbf3b8262bfe4d-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/3ac7d0a385b5fd4424fbf3b8262bfe4d-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Our paper on the ancient clone of Palmer&rsquo;s Oak in Riverside County (May et al. 2009; also see the poster) got a fair bit of press, from the scientific literature (Annals of Botany) to the print media (LA Times, New York Times and the Press Enterprise), radio (BBC and KQED), television ( and KCBS2) and of course the web (New Scientist, Discovery News, Not Exactly Rocket Science, and more). 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Articles in Autumn Leaflet</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-11-03T09:39:33-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.rilab.org/news/files/37f2385a4d1f5ce3908f9b829d72ae82-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rilab.org/news/files/37f2385a4d1f5ce3908f9b829d72ae82-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Two articles in the Plant Sciences leaflet highlight the lab&rsquo;s work on crop evolution in maize and Joshua Tree research.]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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