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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>2010-08-30T19:27:14-05:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:39:23 -0600</lastBuildDate><item><title>Takin&#x27; the message on the road</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><category>None</category><dc:date>2010-08-30T19:27:14-05:00</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[I&rsquo;ll be taking the lab research on the road, with invited seminars at the Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute at the University of Minnesota followed shortly thereafter by a seminar and visit with USDA and folks at Iowa State.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Funds a rollin&#x27; in</title><dc:creator>rossibarra@ucdavis.edu</dc:creator><category>None</category><dc:date>2010-07-14T20:33:09-05:00</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><category>None</category><dc:date>2010-06-25T16:44:22-05:00</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><category>None</category><dc:date>2010-06-07T10:42:28-05:00</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><category>None</category><dc:date>2010-03-29T13:40:31-05:00</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>2009-11-20T15:54:46-06:00</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>2010-02-22T15:54:18-06:00</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>2009-07-29T11:46:39-05:00</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>2009-07-22T11:46:26-05:00</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>2009-12-23T11:40:49-06:00</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 (KABC7 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>2009-11-03T11:39:33-06:00</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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