News - Boyce Thompson Institute

Nov 2014 10

Mexican Professors Revisit BTI’s Harrison Lab

Visiting scholars Dr. Ignacio Maldonado-Mendoza and Dr. Melina Lopez-Meyer from The National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Guasave, Sinaloa in Mexico have chosen to spend their one-year sabbatical at BTI.

Nov 2014 10

Hemiptera Conference Held at Cornell, December 2014

Georg Jander, Michelle Cilia and Angela Douglas organized Hemiptera (sucking insects) conference held on December 4, 2014.

Oct 2014 31

Genomics Study of 360 Tomato Varieties Traces History, Points to Possible Improvements

This study pinpoints regions of the tomato genome where extra DNA has hitchhiked along with desirable DNA; regions breeders can now target for crop improvement.

Oct 2014 31

Professor Sir David Baulcombe at Cornell and BTI

"When genomes meet:how RNA silencing and epigenetics can generate extraordinary phenotypes of hybrid plants."

Oct 2014 29

BTI Celebrates 90 Years on November 13 and 14, 2014

William Boyce Thompson founded the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research 90 years ago in Yonkers, NY. BTI moved to Cornell campus in 1978, to affiliate with a research university, and remains a private non-profit affiliate of Cornell.

Oct 2014 21

Precision Gene Editing

BTI Scientist Successfully Applied Precision Genome Editing in Tomato. In the new system, called CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, targeted changes are made in the desired region of the genome.

Oct 2014 9

BTI Professors Present to Bill Gates

BTI professors David Stern, Zhangjun Fei, and Lukas Mueller were able to brief Bill Gates and his team on their Gates funded projects and issues of biotechnology and plant science while he was at Cornell on October 1, 2014.

Oct 2014 6

BTI/MIT Awarded Transformative NIH Grant to Tackle Antibiotic “Discovery Void”

$3 Million cross-cutting interdisciplinary High-Risk, High-Reward research project taps into unexplored source of antimicrobial compounds.

Oct 2014 1

BTI Postdocs Teach Bio 101 at BTI

BTI collaborates with Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) to host Biology 101. The relationship is symbiotic, and BTI postdocs gain valuable teaching experience.

Oct 2014 1

New Bioinformatics Alliance between CGIAR and BTI

Graham Thiele, RTB Program Director at CGIAR Research Program on roots, tubers, and bananas recently met with Boyce Thompson Institute's Lukas Mueller to plan expansion of bioinformatics platforms and databases.

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