Exciting collaboration with Nagoya University
It has been a while since the last update and the Christmas holidays are only part of the explanation. We have been busy in the lab as part of a very exciting collaboration with Prof Nakazono and colleagues from Nagoya University.
My research visit to Nagoya University (NU) was cancel this year due to the ongoing pandemic what has made international travelling challenging… However, as soon as it was evident that we could not visit, Prof Nakazono sent us some seeds of the rice mutant, drp7, and its wildtype, Kinmaze. I have previously been working with these genotypes back in 2016 when we identified the Leaf Gas Film 1 (LGF1) gene, which was the fist output from the fruitful collaboration between NU, UWA and UCPH.
In the meantime, our colleagues continued the work with this mutant but in a very different context. Our exciting study has not yet been published so I am unable to reveal any details. However, Juan Jimenez, who recently graduated from UWA, is now in Japan and he will also be affiliated with this project along with a student form Indonesia. When the world opens up for traveling, Lucas is also going to NU as part of his compulsory change of scientific environment so it will be a strong team working on this secret topic. Rumours have it that Prof Schreiber at Bonn University is also going to be involved – it will be a long list of contributing authors once the project is completed.
In the early weeks of December, Max, Elisa, Lucas and I were all working in the lab. We had too many measurements to do and we could only afford to grow the plans once due to limited seed supply. It was good to be back in the lab even if it was only for a short while and I am looking so much forward to show our collaborators our data from the extensive measuring campaign.
My research visit to Nagoya University (NU) was cancel this year due to the ongoing pandemic what has made international travelling challenging… However, as soon as it was evident that we could not visit, Prof Nakazono sent us some seeds of the rice mutant, drp7, and its wildtype, Kinmaze. I have previously been working with these genotypes back in 2016 when we identified the Leaf Gas Film 1 (LGF1) gene, which was the fist output from the fruitful collaboration between NU, UWA and UCPH.
In the meantime, our colleagues continued the work with this mutant but in a very different context. Our exciting study has not yet been published so I am unable to reveal any details. However, Juan Jimenez, who recently graduated from UWA, is now in Japan and he will also be affiliated with this project along with a student form Indonesia. When the world opens up for traveling, Lucas is also going to NU as part of his compulsory change of scientific environment so it will be a strong team working on this secret topic. Rumours have it that Prof Schreiber at Bonn University is also going to be involved – it will be a long list of contributing authors once the project is completed.
In the early weeks of December, Max, Elisa, Lucas and I were all working in the lab. We had too many measurements to do and we could only afford to grow the plans once due to limited seed supply. It was good to be back in the lab even if it was only for a short while and I am looking so much forward to show our collaborators our data from the extensive measuring campaign.