The Joint Research Center for Genomics Applied to Climate Change (UMIP GenClima) is a cooperative initiative of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). Joining theirs expertise in genomics and molecular biology of plants, a gene discovery and validation pipeline is being created to develop transgenic plant varieties adapted to the stress conditions imposed by climate change.
Unicamp, with one of the country’s most advanced Science and Technology Park will contribute with laboratories, researchers, PhDs and post-docs, and Embrapa, with its research units located in almost all Brazilian territory, will offer specialized researchers and research facilities for evaluation of agronomic performance of plants bearing of genetic technologies generated by UMIP GenClima.
The Research Center will be located at Unicamp’s Science and Technology Park and will include large-scale bioinformatics, tissue culture and transformation, plant growth and phenotyping facilities. In addition to their own laboratory facilities, UMIP GenClima will have access to Embrapa’s Field Experimental Stations and high-performance equipment installed in the Unicamp laboratories, specially the Central Laboratory of High Performance Technologies in Life Sciences (LaCTAD).
Unicamp, with one of the country’s most advanced Science and Technology Park will contribute with laboratories, researchers, PhDs and post-docs, and Embrapa, with its research units located in almost all Brazilian territory, will offer specialized researchers and research facilities for evaluation of agronomic performance of plants bearing of genetic technologies generated by UMIP GenClima.
The Research Center will be located at Unicamp’s Science and Technology Park and will include large-scale bioinformatics, tissue culture and transformation, plant growth and phenotyping facilities. In addition to their own laboratory facilities, UMIP GenClima will have access to Embrapa’s Field Experimental Stations and high-performance equipment installed in the Unicamp laboratories, specially the Central Laboratory of High Performance Technologies in Life Sciences (LaCTAD).