{"id":14985,"date":"2015-08-31T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=14985"},"modified":"2015-08-31T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:34:14","slug":"14985_dr-du-receives-nsf-grant-to-research-maize-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/2015\/08\/31\/14985_dr-du-receives-nsf-grant-to-research-maize-genome\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Du receives NSF Grant to research Maize Genome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dr. Du received a three-year (September 2014 to August 2017) research grant from the National Science Foundation. &nbsp;The grant will provide invaluable resource for the researchers to fully exploit the maize genome organization. &nbsp;Throughout the grant, MSU will receive $497,375 to support a bioinformatics postdoctoral research associate and some undergraduate student research assistants.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The availability of a mutant line in which a single gene has been disrupted gives biologists a powerful tool in understanding the action of that gene. &nbsp;Thus, sequence-indexed collections of single insertions are critical resources for elucidating gene function in organisms with sequenced genomes. &nbsp;It has recently become feasible to combine high-throughput sequencing with multi-dimensional pooling strategies to sequence and index hundreds of new insertions at a time. &nbsp;This work will complete the production of a reverse genetics resource based on the transposon Ds that will enable the community to generate and build up a single-gene knockout resource for maize.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence-indexed Reverse Genetics Resource for Maize: a Set of Lines with Single Ds-GFP Insertions Spread Throughout the Genome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":114985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}