First Annual Parallel Sequencing Genomics Meeting held Nov. 6th. [more information]

The Current and Future PETs
Yijun Ruan, PhD
Genome Institute of Singapore will give a talk at the Stanford Genome Technology Center on Feb 13, 2006 at 2pm. [abstract]

Ron W. Davis receives the 2004-2005 Dickson Prize in Medicine
Awarded by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the Dickson Prize is intended for investigators who are "actively engaged in innovative, paradigm-shifting biochemical research that is worthy of significant and broad attention." The prize was presented in fall 2005 in Pittsburgh.

Ron W. Davis receives lifetime achievement award from the Genetics Society of America
GSA newsletter 09/2004; pdf, 847kb

Sequencing of Candida albicans completed
The diploid genome sequence of Candida albicans has been published in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2004 May 11;101(19):7329-34. Epub 2004 May 03. [PNAS]

The project has been funded by grants from the NIDR, NIH and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Detailed information can be obtained form the Candida web pages.

C. neoformans B-3501A genome sequence publicly available
The C. neoformans Genome Project has been a collaboration among Brendan Loftus and the team at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the Stanford Genome Technology Center(SGTC). Our C. neoformans B-3501A genome sequence was posted on our web site as of December 22, 2003, and is, therefore, publicly available (http://www-sequence.stanford.edu/group/C. neoformans/index.html). We expect that this will be our last major sequence release for the C. neoformans B-3501A genome sequence.

Herbert A. Sober Lecture
Ron W. Davis will deliver the Herbert A. Sober lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), June 12-16, 2004 in Boston, MA. He will talk about "Technology Development for Yeast and Translational Medicine" on Tuesday June 15th, 2004, 4:45-5:45 pm.

Erwin Schroedinger Lecture
Peter Oefner has been invited to give the 10th Erwin Schroedinger Lecture at the Trinity College in Dublin/Ireland in 2004.
Schroedinger Lectures | Schroedinger Biography

Geneticists unravel active genes in classic research plant.
Stanford Report, November 12, 2003. Stanford geneticists, with two other California research teams, have characterized almost a third of active genes in a common research plant, enhancing a multinational genetic library that could help growers control plant characteristics from cold tolerance to flower color.

Read the full article by Shawne Neeper in the Stanford Report

Stanford Researchers make major contribution to human genome sequence.
Stanford Report, February 12, 2001. Stanford researchers, as members of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, today announced the first analyses of the human genome sequence - the 3 billion DNA letters that comprise the complete set of human genes. Of the 20 groups - from the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany and China - that were involved in the collaboration, the efforts of the two Stanford teams combined to place Stanford ninth in terms of the amount of draft sequence contributed to the global effort.

Read the full article in the Stanford Report

A new mission for the Genome Technology Center.
Stanford Medicine Volume 17 Number 3 Fall 2000. With DNA sequencing work nearly finished, the center's staff focuses on discovering genes' functions. It's got a new name to go with its new aim: the Stanford Sequencing and Technology Center is now the Stanford Genome Technology Center. "DNA sequencing" is gone from its name because the center's sequencing work is largely done. The major research question these days at the center: What do all these genes actually do?

Read the full article by Krista Conger in Stanford Medicine

Tiny Tools for Detangling DNA.
Stanford Magazine. Successfully mapping the human genome is akin to finding biology's holy grail. But scientists like Stanford biochemist Ron W. Davis say the really hard part -- figuring out what the tens of thousands of individual genes do -- is still to come. "My suspicions are that we're going to find out all sorts of new things about what DNA is used for," says Davis, director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center.

Read the full article in the Stanford Magazine.