΢Ƶ Genome Center Content / ΢Ƶ Genome Center Content for ΢Ƶ en ΢Ƶ Genome Center Names New Director /news/uc-davis-genome-center-names-new-director <p>Blake Meyers, a principal investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and a professor of plant sciences from the University of Missouri - Columbia, has been named the new director and Novozymes Chair in Genomics at the ΢Ƶ Genome Center. Meyers, who studies plant RNA biology, bioinformatics and functional genomics, will step into the role on March 1.</p> August 29, 2023 - 9:00pm Cody Kitaura /news/uc-davis-genome-center-names-new-director 1st Detection of Coronavirus B.1.1.7 Variant in Sacramento Region /news/1st-detection-coronavirus-b117-variant-sacramento-region <p>Through its free community COVID-19 test operations, Healthy Davis Together and the ΢Ƶ Genome Center identified the first known case of the B.1.1.7 variant of the virus SARS-CoV-2 in the Sacramento region.</p> February 08, 2021 - 12:15pm Anonymous /news/1st-detection-coronavirus-b117-variant-sacramento-region How Do Scientists Assemble A Genome? /curiosity-gap/how-do-scientists-assemble-genome <p>A genome contains all the genetic information needed to create and maintain an individual. Sequencing a genome helps scientists better understand genomes and their role in creating organisms. When scientists sequence a genome, they take an organism’s DNA and determine the order of its base pairs, which are coded by the letters A, C, T and G. These lettered pairs comprise the “rungs” of the ladder-like DNA double helix, which serves as an organism’s unique genetic blueprint.</p> June 25, 2019 - 4:18pm Anonymous /curiosity-gap/how-do-scientists-assemble-genome Downy Mildew Research to Benefit Lettuce Growers and Consumers /news/downy-mildew-research-benefit-lettuce-growers-and-consumers <p>Researchers at the University of California, Davis, will use the genomics of lettuce to combat a pathogen that causes losses in the $3 billion industry each year.</p> <p>The Foundation of Food and Agriculture Research, or FFAR,&nbsp;awarded Richard Michelmore, professor and director of the ΢Ƶ Genome Center, the first research grant through the Crops of the Future Collaborative.</p> <p>΢Ƶ will receive $2.5 million from FFAR and matching funds from the Crops of the Future Leafy Greens Participants for a total of $5 million.</p> October 10, 2018 - 3:27pm Amy M Quinton /news/downy-mildew-research-benefit-lettuce-growers-and-consumers