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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]