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fundamental questions about life.
Featured News & Events
Luca Comai, professor of plant biology at the UC Davis Genome Center, was awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to study new genetic variations in crop plants. The project will apply ultra-high throughput sequencing to TILLING (Targeting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes), a general method for the discovery of induced mutations in genes.
The College of Biological Sciences is having a Centennial Celebration & Open House on October 10 at 4:30 p.m. Find out more….
Peter Marler, birdsong expert, was elected to the Royal Society. Founded in 1660 by King Charles II, the Royal Society is the British equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences. Past and current fellows include Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking.-
Neelima R. Sinha, professor of plant biology, and her research group discovered that parasitic dodder vines take up RNA molecules from the host plant’s vascular system (phloem) — and could be manipulated to kill the parasite. The article will be published in New Phytologist.-
Fall 2008 - Professor Brad Shaffer with his six foot Boa constrictor snake, Spottie, after the introductory lecture of the new BIS2C course "Biodiversity and the Tree of Life". Spottie helped Dr. Shaffer make a point about the very close relationship between snakes and lizards, despite the apparent lack of legs in the former (actually, Spottie has very short hind legs that are used in mating).
