{"id":4014,"date":"2009-08-12T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=4014"},"modified":"2009-08-12T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:10:06","slug":"4014_charles-du-biology-and-molecular-biology-csam-200-000-award-from-nsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2009\/08\/12\/4014_charles-du-biology-and-molecular-biology-csam-200-000-award-from-nsf\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Du, Biology and Molecular Biology, CSAM, $200,000 award from NSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Charles Du along with Dr. Hugo Dooner (PI, Rutgers University) and Dr. Randall Kerstetter (Co-PI, Rutgers University) received a three year research grant from the National Science Foundation.&nbsp; The grant, entitled \u201cFacile Production and Efficient Indexing of Transposon-tagged Lines Using Next-generation Sequencing Technology for Maize,\u201d will provide the researchers with an opportunity to use next generation sequencing technology to analyze the maize genome.&nbsp; Through the grant, MSU will receive over $200,000 to support a bioinformatics server and undergraduate research.&nbsp; The grant will run from September 2009 to August 2012.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As Co-PI, Dr. Du will carry out bioinformatics analysis for sequence assembly, annotation, and mapping of millions of short reads to the maize reference genome; develop a web-searchable database of insertion site sequences cross-referenced to lines hosted at MSU.&nbsp; Students at both Rutgers and MSU will participate in the project as summer interns in the molecular biology lab and maize genetics nursery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Charles Du along with Dr. Hugo Dooner (PI, Rutgers University) and Dr. Randall Kerstetter (Co-PI, Rutgers University) received a three year research grant from the National Science Foundation.&nbsp; The grant, entitled \u201cFacile Production and Efficient Indexing of Transposon-tagged Lines Using Next-generation Sequencing Technology for Maize,\u201d will provide the researchers with an opportunity to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}