What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
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...presented in a series of quick (10 minute) or very quick (2 minute) talks so we got to hear from everyone. Addgene...evolutionary tree at least 6-7 times and on at least 2 separate continents.
Mimulus (Andrea Sweigart)
Monkeyflowers...Organisms, Part 1
Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2
...promotes scientific sharing
The EDGE Program is designed to expand the number of systems that can be studied...genotype to phenotype studies
New organismal systems described at this meeting were extraordinarily diverse. ...generating interesting drug-like compounds especially cardenolides which have been used to treat heart disease....disease. Caterpillars that eat milkweed generate cardenolides that tastes yucky (and is poisonous) for bird ...