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News Release 17-057
NSF issues $14 million in awards for improved genomic tools
New EDGE program awards will help researchers determine relationship between gene function and organisms' physical and functional characteristics
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EDGE awardee Leonid Moroz aboard the laboratory oceanic research vessel Baseline Explorer. Moroz's project focuses on real-time, single-cell genomics.
Credit: Leonid Moroz
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Awardee James Westwood, of Virginia Tech, studies Cuscuta, a parasitic plant that obtains its food from other plants, so it has no need for roots, leaves or photosynthesis, and appears as a network of yellow vining stems that wind around host plants.
Credit: Virginia Tech
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Zoologist Jason Gallant, of Michigan State University, will develop a CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing model for electric fish. Gallant's lab previously sequenced the genome of the electric eel.
Credit: G.L. Kohuth
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Researcher Amy Hastings collects data on milkweed.
Credit: Anurag Agrawal, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
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Michael White, of the University of Georgia, collecting threespine stickleback fish for research. White is a co-principal investigator with Daniel Bolnick, of the University of Texas at Austin.
Credit: Michael White, University of Georgia
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On-deck incubation experiments conducted by Sallie Chisholm's laboratory. Chisholm was funded to develop genetic tools for the dominant phototroph of the sea.
Credit: Chisholm Lab
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