UMass Brachypodium Consortium

Plant Biology Graduate Program

Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program

Institute for Cellular Engineering

The Institute for Massachusetts Biofuel Research

Undergraduate lab assistant, Rebecca Lamonthe, awarded HHMI Research Intership.

To silence candidate genes, design Brachypodium articifial microRNA at WMD3.

Version 1.0 of the Brachypodium genome is now available at Phytozome.

Sam Hazen presents at Dartmouth College.

See our "Highly accessed" publication in Genome Biology.

Biologists Identify Genes Controlling Rhythmic Plant Growth.

DOE and USDA Announce More than $10 Million in Bioenergy Plant Feedstock Research.

Network discovery pipeline elucidates conserved time of day specific cis-regulatory modules.

The DOE Joint Genome Institute has selected Brachypodium distachyon as a target for resequencing.

Energy-rich Porfolio of New Genome Sequencing Targets for DOE JGI. 

Why sequence Brachypodium?