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Another emblematic flower joins the genome club: Ceiba Genome

May 11, 2018 by Scott Edmunds Leave a Comment
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Bauhinia Genome has focussed on teaching the people of Hong Kong about genomics by studying the DNA sequence of our emblematic flower Bauhinia blakeana. Now our neighbour cities of Guangzhou in Southern China, and Kaohsiung just across the Taiwan Straits, have joined the floral genome club, with their city flower sequenced. Bombax ceiba L., the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education Tagged: genomics, plant genomics

Crowdfunded genomes and the plant genome big bang

March 8, 2018 by Scott Edmunds 1 Comment
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Bauhinia Genome Update While we’ve been quiet on the blog things are still progressing in the world of Bauhinia Genome. Data has been continued to be analysed by students at CUHK and their transcriptome assemblies have been made public from the GigaScience GigaDB platform. Prof Stephen Tsui presented this work at the International Botanical Conference … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education, Press Tagged: 10KP, crowdfunding, genomics, plant genomics, TEDx, transcriptomics

Education, education, education. The reason for BauhiniaGenome.

August 9, 2016 by Scott Edmunds 1 Comment

To paraphrase Tony Blair on his priorities when becoming UK Prime Minister, the three reasons we are carrying out the Bauhinia Genome Project are education, education, education. Through motivating the Hong Kong public to help solve the interesting origin mysteries of their floral emblem we hope to educate in three ways. Firstly, educate the general … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education Tagged: education, genomics, Press

BauhiniaGenome featured on CNN

May 5, 2016 by Scott Edmunds Leave a Comment

In the latest issue of CNN’s monthly ‘On China’ program, Kristie Lu Stout covered the cutting-edge science going on in China, and you may have spotted a certain emblematic genome project featured. On top of a video segment featuring BauhiniaGenome, she spoke with Dennis Lo, circulating DNA pioneer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; … [Read more…]

Posted in: Press, Video Tagged: CNN, genomics, Media, Press, transcriptomics, video

Crowdfunded genomes start to bloom

January 27, 2016 by Scott Edmunds Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Crowdfunding Tagged: crowdfunding, genomics, news, thanks, transcriptomics

Cold beer AND genomics!

December 3, 2015 by Rob Davidson Leave a Comment

Hosted by Science Lovers and Geeks Meetup Group – go register at Meetup.com   One of the best ways to help uncover the secrets of any organism is by understanding its genetic makeup. Rob Davidson of GigaScience and Scott Edmunds of BGI-Hong Kong love their Genomics. So much so they decided to start The Hong … [Read more…]

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