Archive for September 2009

Rice arabinogalactan protein (AGP) gene identified

In a recent report published in the Transgenic Res. 2009 Sep 22., authors Anand and Tyagi, identified a cDNA for the gene encoding the arabinogalactan protein (AGP) . The cDNA (586bp) isolated from the Oryza sativa indica cDNA library was shown to be  expressing preferentially in the inflorescence. The gene is shown to have pollen-specific and [...]

(Bio)Informatics Job Openings at Oregon State University

Bioinformatics and software programmer job openings at the rank of Faculty Research Assistant are available in the Jaiswal lab at the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology to work on the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics projects.  This is a full-time, (1.0 FTE), 12-month, fixed-term position working in Dr. Pankaj Jaiswal’s lab (http://www.science.oregonstate.edu/bpp/faculty/jaiswal/). The positions are [...]

Reactome Pathway Database User Survey

Reactome is committed to providing access to high-quality pathway information and helpful data analysis tools and are actively soliciting comments from researchers in order to assess community needs. They are interested hearing about your experience with Reactome and would like to know a bit about your background and research interests in order to improve [...]

Scheduled downtime for maintenance

Gramene’s servers will be unavailable for a period of at least 2 hours between 1-5PM on Wednesday, September 9th. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.