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January 2017
Development Update: BTI’s generous friends and supporters helped us to have a very successful fundraising year. We raised $237,728.35, or 97% of the 2017 goal of $246,000 - more than doubling the amount raised during 2016. Responses to the campaign are still coming...
BTI Receives DARPA “Insect Allies” Award to Develop Viruses and Insects for Maize Improvement
The research project, titled Viruses and Insects as Plant Enhancement Resources (VIPER), is supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Insect Allies program.
In Memoriam: Klaus Apel
Klaus Apel, former professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute, passed away on June 30th at the age of 74.
Maize in Maricopa: An Interview with Intern Michael Miller
Michael Miller spent his first two weeks as a PGRP intern at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Arid Land Research Center.
BTI’s Mueller Lab and visiting researchers collaborate to improve important crop databases
During June and July at BTI, visiting scholars from crop breeding programs in Nigeria, Nairobi, and Uganda have been working closely with researchers in Lukas Mueller’s group to discuss ways to improve the development of online resources related to two of Africa’s most important staple crops: cassava and banana.
2017 GOBii hackathon helps improve current genomic data management system
The GOBII project’s annual hackathon united 25 software developers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, and application specialists on a week-long mission.
Georg Jander receives $1 million NSF EDGE award to develop genomic tools for studying milkweed
BTI’s Georg Jander is leading one of eight research groups selected to receive awards through the Enabling Discovery through Genomic Tools (EDGE) program, overseen by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Biological Science Directorate.
Wading into discovery: BTI’s 2017 PGRP Interns
Motivated, curious, and eager to discover, BTI’s 2017 Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP) interns are ready to dive into a 2+ month transformative experience that will prepare them for their future career.
Our commitment to sustainability: A statement from David Stern
BTI reaffirms its commitment to innovation and discovery in the life sciences, upholding our founder’s vision that new knowledge promises new solutions for food security and planetary health.
Science in seconds: Stronger spinach
Most of us know the story of how spinach makes Popeye the Sailor Man strong, but what make spinach stronger? Dr. Chen Jiao explains how a new spinach genomic sequence discovered by BTI's Fei Lab can help increase spinach's resistance to drought and...
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