I’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. Read More...

Lab members Matthew Hufford and Laura Vann have both recently received funding for their research. Read More...

Norm Ellstrand of UC Riverside (and Jeff’s M.S. advisor) has just received a presitgious Guggenheim fellowship to pursue research in plant population genetics, and specifically to broaden his understanding of evolutionary genomics. Read More...

NSF funds work on centromere evolution Read More...

We have two new additions to the lab this summer... Read More...

Our paper on gene conversion in maize centromeres, a collaboration with Kelly Dawe’s lab, came out today in PLoS Biology. Read More...

Our paper on the ancient clone of Palmer’s Oak in Riverside County (May et al. 2009; also see the poster) hit the news in a big way. Read More...

Web coverage and a perspective piece on the maize hapmap paper (Gore et al. 2009)
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Two articles in the Plant Sciences leaflet highlight the lab’s work on crop evolution in maize and Joshua Tree research.

UC MEXUS has funded the lab to work on phylogeography of Mesoamerican Diopsyros.
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USDA NIFA Grant funds novel approach to identifying candidate genes
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