SCMP Bauhinia Cover Bags Bronze Hong Kong residents might be aware of the Bronze Order of the Bauhinia award, the most commonly handed out medal in the Hong Kong honours system, but now the Bauhinia flower itself has received a bronze gong. At the at the prestigious WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards in Manilla last week, … [Read more…]
Tis the (Bahinia flowering) season. On behalf of the Bauhinia Genome team we’d like to thank you for all your generous support. We eventually raised $2,608 USD ($20,215 HKD), which makes our efforts one of the largest “community genome” projects to date. While those of you who have contributed will have recently seen an email … [Read more…]
In our ongoing mission for citizen engagement, we’ve made a cute little video to tell people about #BauhiniaWatch. Bauhinia Watch is the part of this Bauhinia Genome science project that truly anyone can get involved with – that means you! An important part of science is to know about what’s happening outside of the lab… … [Read more…]
Since we launched a couple of weeks ago, we’ve had quite a lot of interest in this Bauhinia Genome project. The SCMP put us on their front cover (see pic above) and ran a great article that described our project and the historical mystery around Bauhinia blakeana and its discovery on a Hong Kong hillside … [Read more…]
We’ve just finished our official crowd-funding video with an all-star cast and with backing music – oh yes. Filmed on location at BGI in Tai Po Industrial Estate and at Chinese University Hong Kong it not only displays one of our local Bauhinia blakeana (on the roadside outside BGI) but you can also see the … [Read more…]
We are crowdfunding the Bauhinia genomes (3 species!) on Indiegogo and the project page launched yesterday! This ‘soft launch’ took place at BGI’s annual International Conference on Genomics (ICG10) that is currently taking place in Shenzhen during a special session on community science projects hosted by Scott Edmunds. Please do go and check out the … [Read more…]
Rob Davidson briefly explains the rationale behind the Bauhinia Genome project.