CAGEF
News
Rasing the BAR at NCBI
CAGEF’s Bio-Array Resource (BAR.utoronto.ca ) is now part of NCBI’s LinkOut system! For most Arabidopsis genes and proteins in NCBI’s GenBank, direct links to the BAR’s eFP Browser and Cell eFP Browser are now included in the links associated with a given gene or protein, making it easier for GenBank users to find out additional information for their gene or protein of interest based on gene expression patterns and subcellular localization data incorporated into the BAR.
Breakthrough
of the Year Research
Science
Magazine recognized the identification of the plant abscisic acid (ABA)
receptor as the second runner up for the Breakthrough of the Year.
Three CAGEF
member laboratories were involved in this study (Profs. McCourt,
Provart, & Desveaux), and CAGEF's genomics technician, Pauline
Fung, was a co-first author on the study. The original study can be
found here,
while the Science article on breakthrough research can be found here.
U. of T. iGEM Team takes Bronze
CAGEF
would like to congratulate the University of Toronto International
Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Team, which won a bronze medal
at the 2009 competition for their "Encapsulator"
project. The iGEM competition is an
annual event in which teams of undergraduates from all over the world
compete to build synthetic machines from a library of standardized,
biological parts. The team was advised by Prof. John Parkinson and
Graham Cromar, and included the following outstanding U. of T.
undergraduate students: Yen Leung, Kenny Zhan, Meah Gao, James
Juras, and Farhan Raja. CAGEF was a proud supporter of this exciting
undergraduate research opportunity. Further information about the
Toronto iGEM team can be found here.
We are very
proud to recognize the 76 publications
which list CAGEF as an author
affiliation since inception in mid-2006.
updated Dec09
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The
Centre for the Analysis of Genome
Evolution
and Function (CAGEF) is an extra-departmental unit established
through
generous funding by the University of Toronto's Academic Initiative
Fund in
2006 in order to promote interdisciplinary research in
comparative, evolutionary, and functional
analyses of genomes and proteomes. CAGEF's mission is to promote
research in
basic and applied genome biology research, provide technical
support and
access to state-of-art genomic, proteomic, metabolomic,
chemical genomic,
and bioinformatic research platforms, and to promote the training and
education
of students and postdocs through the development and support
of innovative
teaching initiatives, courses, workshops and research awards.
CAGEF
is
closely allied with the Departments
of Cell and
Systems and
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto,
and a proud supporter and sponsor of the Collaborative Graduate
Program in Genome Biology and Bioinformatics.
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