BIOEN: Visit to French collaborating institutions and researchers

• Grant number: 08/04539-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: June 14, 2008
• End date: June 24, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Genetics - Plant Genetics
• Principal Investigator: Anete Pereira de Souza
• Grantee: Anete Pereira de Souza
• Host Investigator: Angelique D'Hont
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biologia (IB). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), France

Abstract

Within the context of the BIOEN program and with the objective of improving our knowledge about the complex sugarcane genome, I established, in partnership with Prof. Michel Vincentz (IB - UNICAMP), a set of contacts with French institutions/research groups working in the field of genomics. The proposal corresponds to a scheduled visit of the institutions/groups that were contacted (CIRAD, INRA, GENOSCOPE, URGV). These visits will be essential to evaluate the possibility of setting up solid collaborations which would significantly benefit the physical map construction and sequencing of specific regions of the sugarcane genome. This aspect represents a key aim of the grant proposal that we submitted to FAPESP. (AU)