Seed biology – from lab to field

Seed biology – from lab to field

From the Lab to the Field

How to Grow a Computational Biology Lab

Start of the lab: 2007 Size of the lab: 16 Research field: Computational biology I began building my lab after having been selected to run an independent junior research group by the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken in 2007. At a meeting at Rutgers University that summer, I convinced a very good postdoc, Ben Adams, who was working in Japan by that ti...

Genomic selection in loblolly pine - from lab to field

Background Tree breeding is logistically complex and expensive, and breeders have long sought to use molecular markers to accelerate breeding. A candidate gene approach based on testing for association between the presence of DNA sequence variation in or near candidate genes, and phenotypic variation in a population has long been explored [1,2]. However, using candidate gene approach (QTLs) has...

From the Lab to the Field: Steve Roth - A Memoriam

IN late 2003, one of Steve’s largest projects was going to end in a month. His company, MAYA Viz, was small and a major project ending without followup work would put a strain on the whole organization. Prior to that time, Steve and his team at MAYA Viz had spent five years, on their own and in the DARPA Command Post of the Future (CPOF) program, building a research prototype of a distributedwo...