Cornell signs research agreement with Japan's genome research institute
Teruo Ishige, president of NIAS, and Kohichi Kadowaki, head of the institute's Molecular Biodiversity Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan, came to Cornell to initiate a relationship that will lead to joint research projects and exchanges of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty members on sabbaticals. NIAS, a unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is known for its plant and animal genome research, its molecular and cell biology and its genetic resources division.
Ishige and William Fry, associate dean for research in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at Cornell, signed the agreement, which formalizes a loose partnership between Cornell and NIAS. During their visit, Ishige and Kadowaki also met with Susan McCouch, professor of plant breeding and genetics; David Stern, president of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research; Maureen Hanson, professor of molecular biology and genetics; and Kwangwon Lee, assistant professor of plant pathology.
Cornell also will have opportunities to send its researchers to Japan. The NIAS was the leader of the international rice genome sequencing project, completed in 2004, and is now focusing on the development of new biotechnologies and bio-industries. Ishige and Kadowaki have signed similar agreements with Stanford University and the University of Minnesota.
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