Bayer CropScience participates in fungal genome sequencing initiative
More than two years ago, Bayer CropScience researchers were the first to establish a genomic map of the phytopathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis. The research project was run in scientific cooperation with the working group of Prof. Regine Kahmann (Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Max Planck Institute in Marburg) and in collaboration with LION Bioscience AG in Heidelberg.
The Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research is an international leader in the field of genomics, the study of all of the genes in an organism and how they function together in health and disease. A flagship of the Human Genome Project, the Center today houses a broad range of thriving research programs combining structural genomics, medical and population genetics, and clinical medicine. The Center's annual budget is $80 million, and it employs 350 people, including scientists and medical researchers from Whitehead, MIT, and Harvard.
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