press.Rmd

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title: "Lab Press" 
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### 2021

* [Press release](https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/cu-ebr012021.php) on sorghum/maize deleterious alleles work.

### 2020

* JRI on [Radiolab](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/body-count) explaining corn time.

### 2019

* Nice [write-up in Science](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6460/1415.1) on the [hybrid decay paper](https://www.genetics.org/content/213/1/143) we collaborated on.
* After nearly a decade, the Jurupa Oak is [back in the news](https://www.pe.com/2019/05/25/is-jurupa-valley-oak-tree-a-13000-year-old-ice-age-relic-threatened-by-new-homes-project/) as concerns mount over housing development
* [NPR Forum](https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101868974/uc-takes-on-publishing-conglomerate-fights-for-open-access-to-publicly-funded-research)  references [Jeff's illegal activities](https://twitter.com/jrossibarra/status/1080893833620074496) downloading papers as part of a discussion of publishing and the UC system

### 2018

* JRI weighs in in the [Smithsonian](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rethinking-corny-history-maize-180971038/) on [recent work discussing maize in South America](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6420/1309) (also [in Spanish](https://www.agronewscastillayleon.com/estudio-rastrea-la-evolucion-de-la-domesticacion-del-maiz-en-america-del-sur).  
* [Scientific American](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/small-farmers-in-mexico-keep-corns-genetic-diversity-alive/) asks for thoughts on work discussing the [role of campesinos in maintaining evolutionarily relevant genetic diversity in maize](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.1049).
* Emily [talking about poylgenic adaptation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxQOrK9h6D4)  

### 2017

* Genome Biology does a nice [video abstract](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgIUGHEZ2nM) on our [paper on maize demography and load](https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-017-1346-4). 
*  Internationaler Ruhm! Eine schöne [Beschreibung](http://www.pflanzenforschung.de/index.php?cID=12286) unseres [Domestizierungsartikels](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982217307856).
* Mapping teosinte is apparently really important for... [changing grant deadlines](http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/nsf-drops-preproposals-deadlines-biologists-seeking-funding)?
* [Nice press](https://t.co/3MkC6eRDyD) on [Michelle's](https://mcstitzer.github.io) work on [TEs in maize](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature22971.html?foxtrotcallback=true), including highlights on [NSF research news](https://news.science360.gov/obj/story/2caf076f-1759-40c2-9c56-62e3fbbdf44b/tracking-down-jumping-genes-maize).
* JRI on the [TapRoot Podcast](https://plantae.org/blog/taproot-podcast-s1e6-population-genetics-authorship-lists-worklife-balance-and-raining-cockroaches-with-jeffrey-ross-ibarra/) talking authorship and raining cockroaches.
* Though our contribution was tiny, still nice to see good press on the [Turkey Pen](http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-genomes-show-how-maize-adapted-to-life-at-high-altitudes-1.22403) ancient maize paper from [Nature](http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-genomes-show-how-maize-adapted-to-life-at-high-altitudes-1.22403),  [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2017-08-precision-corn-climate.html), and [Science Daily](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170803141056.htm)
* Write-up in [Science](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6348/240) on Jeff's [talk at SMBE](https://www.slideshare.net/jrossibarra/adaptive-evolution-of-genome-size-across-altitudinal-clines-in-maize) on lab preprint on [genome size evolution](http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/13/134528).
* [Press Release](https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/cshl-dng060917.php) on the [AGPv4 maize genome](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature22971.html?foxtrotcallback=true).
* JRI contributed to (but sadly not quoted in) [an article on CIMMYT SeeDs](http://www.scidev.net/america-latina/agropecuaria/noticias/maiz-criollo-va-revelando-sus-secretos-de-adaptacion.html).
* Spending too much time on twitter has reprecussions. Like having tweets mentioned in [blog posts](https://aobblog.com/2017/02/hi-im-actuallivingscientist/). 

### 2016

* Our collaboration on ancient maize gets good press in [Nature](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v539/n7630/full/539471c.html), [Science](https://t.co/DDOoKctDfR), [Current Biology](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.045), and popular press like the [BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37999506) and the [Smithsonian](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lend-me-your-ears-tale-evolution-from-year-old-corn-cob-180961133/)
* JRI quoted in the [Yolo Gardener](http://yolomg.ucanr.edu/newsletters/Yolo_Gardener63920.pdf) for not knowing what he's talking about
* [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXLuWruOmO4) of JRI speaking at JGI
* Paper on [seed filling in domesticated maize](http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n12/full/ng.3422.html) highlighted by [F1000](http://f1000.com/prime/725901667)

### 2015

* Our paper on [origins and evolution of ancient maize in the Southwest US](http://www.rilab.org/pdfs/fonseca2015.pdf) got a fair amount of press, including [UC Davis Press Release](http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=11124), [Science World Report](http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/21122/20150112/origins-maize-dna-tests-reveal-two-paths.htm), [Archaeology](http://www.archaeology.org/news/2879-150108-southwest-corn-dna), [SiNC](http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/El-maiz-entro-en-el-suroeste-de-EE-UU-hace-4.000-anos-a-traves-de-la-montana), [Science magazine](http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/01/how-corn-became-corn), [Nature Plants commentary](http://www.nature.com/articles/nplants20149), and [The Scientist](http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41865/title/Corn-Chronicle/)  and was also highlighted in [F1000](https://vpn.lib.ucdavis.edu/prime/,DanaInfo=f1000.com+725299665)  
* Our work on highland maize adaptation is briefly mentioned in the [Daily Democrat](http://www.dailydemocrat.com/general-news/20150110/uc-davis-scientists-work-to-id-food-crops-that-can-survive-global-warming).  
* Our [2011 paper](http://media.wix.com/ugd/fe9228_4916e7f7acec4aee869da040d519e0be.pdf) on the geographical origins of maize shows up in a [blog on Barbara McClintock's discoveries](http://www.barbaraonthebill.com/discoveries/) as part of a movment to put her on the $10 bill.  
* [Interviews with the authors](http://morrell-lab.cfans.umn.edu/interviews/interviews.htm) of our 2011 and 2012 papers on domestication for a UMN course on Crop Evolution.
* [Phys.org](http://phys.org/news/2015-11-higher-yielding-crops-sugar-import.html) runs press release on our [Sweet4 paper](http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3422.html).
* [Scientific Collections International](http://blog.scicoll.org/2015/11/teosinte-today-maize-tomorrow.html) write on our work with Dolores Piperno and gene expression in teosinte grown in ancient climes.
* Our [paper on drift and selection](http://www.genetics.org/content/201/3/1201) in maize [highlighted by editors](http://www.genetics.org/content/201/3/NP?etoc) in Genetics and blogged about at [[Haldane's Sieve](http://haldanessieve.org/2013/08/12/our-paper-the-genomic-impacts-of-drift-and-selection-for-hybrid-performance-in-maize/)].
* JRI's tweet on removing journal names quoted in this piece in [Nature's twitter gossip column](http://www.nature.com/news/what-s-in-a-journal-name-1.18987)

### 2014

* [Sofiane's paper](http://www.g3journal.org/content/4/1/163.full) on deleterious mutations made the [G3 Spotlight edition](http://www.genetics-gsa.org/pdf/Webspotlights/GSA_WebSpotlight2014_G3.pdf)  
* We blogged about our centromere work on [Haldane's Sieve](http://haldanessieve.org/2014/05/21/author-post-diversity-and-evolution-of-centromere-repeats-in-the-maize-genome/)  
* Jeff is quoted in [The Scientist](http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41194/title/360-Degree-View-of-the-Tomato/) discusing recent tomato resquencing work
* Our recent review on [advances and limitations to using popgen to study local adaptation](http://www.rilab.org/pdfs/tiffin2014.pdf) mentioned in a blog post at the [Molecular Ecologist](http://www.molecularecologist.com/2014/10/how-many-markers-does-it-take-to-make-a-dataset-genomic/)  
* Jeff's mild annoyance with the continued debate about one or two rice origins is noted in a quote in [Nature](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7524_supp/full/514S58a.html). Why won't anyone argue for seventeen origins?


### 2013

* Our paper on the domesticaiton locus [grassy tillers](http://journals.plos.org/ploscollections/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1003604) is highlighted in the [PLoS Plant Trasnslational Research collection](http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browse/issue/info:doi/10.1371/issue.pcol.v01.i25).  
* [Wills et al](http://f1000.com/prime/718032804), [Waters et al](http://f1000.com/prime/718173166) and [Melters et al](http://f1000.com/prime/717979865) all higlighted by F1000  
* Our paper on local adaptation in teosinte makes the [cover](http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/gbe/resource/gbe-cover_dec-2013_expansion.jpg) at GBE
* We blogged about our paper on crop-wild introgression for [Haldane's Sieve](http://haldanessieve.org/2012/08/23/our-paper-the-genomic-signature-of-crop-wild-introgression-in-maize/) and [Panda's Thumb](http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2013/05/press-release-t.html)  
* [UCD Press Release](http://ucdaviscaes.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/agriculture-feeding-the-future/) on the persepective piece on feeding the future.  
* We blogged about our work on [hybrid maize](http://haldanessieve.org/2013/08/12/our-paper-the-genomic-impacts-of-drift-and-selection-for-hybrid-performance-in-maize/) and [centromere biology](http://haldanessieve.org/2012/09/27/our-paper-comparative-analysis-of-tandem-repeats-from-hundreds-of-species-reveals-unique-insights-into-centromere-evolution/) at Haldane's Sieve  

### 2012

* [DuPont press release](http://www2.dupont.com/media/en-us/news-events/july/dupont-recognizes-young-professors.html) mentioning Jeff's DuPont Young Professor award.  
* [Science Friday interview](http://www.sciencefriday.com/blogs/06/11/2012/podcast-6-de-scifri.html?audience=3&series=24) with Jeff on our domestication work (in Spanish)  
* In which Jeff learns not to let the publicists write quotes for him. In the [UC Davis Press Release](http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10267) on the HapMap2 papers by Hufford et al. and Chia et al., Jeff is quoted as claiming the work will solve hunger, improve yield, create world peace. If only we'd had higher depth sequencing we could have solved the JFK assassination too.  
* [Nature commentary](http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v44/n7/full/ng.2326.html) on our HapMap2 papers.
* HapMap2 papers make the [cover](http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v44/n7/covers/index.html) of Nature Genetics
* [Genome Web](https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/genomeweb-feature-plant-studies-genome-size-poses-unique-challenges) piece on our review of the challenges of crop genomics
* Our crip genomics review makes the [cover](http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v13/n2/covers/index.html) of Nature Reviews Genetics
* Our review on teosinte makes the [cover](http://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/issue?pii=S0168-9525(12\)X0012-X) of Trends in Genetics

###  2011

* [U Wisconsin press release](http://www.news.wisc.edu/19804) on identification of the causal transposable element behind the domestication gene [tb1](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21946354).  
* Tony's paper also highlighted by [F1000](http://f1000.com/prime/13357167)  
* Our paper on geographic origins in maize on the [Agricultural Biodiversity Blog](http://agro.biodiver.se/2011/01/maize-mystery-solved/) and the highlight of a [Frontiers in Genetics Piece](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3268606/)  

###  2010

* [UC Davis piece](http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9679) on Jeff's [PECASE](https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pressroom/11052010) award.
* [PLoS Biology commentary](http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000326) on our study of gene conversion in centromeres

###  2009

* [Nature commentary](http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091119/full/news.2009.1098.html) on maize HapMap 1.
* HapMap1 makes the [cover](http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5956.cover-expansion) of Science.
* Tons of press for our paper on an ancient oak clone, including [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees), [NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/science/05clone.html?_r=0), [LA Times](http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/22/science/la-sci-oak23-2009dec23), [CA Native Plant Society](http://www.cnps-sgm.org/newsletters/files//Paintbrush-2010-02-1003-00.pdf), [Discovery News](http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/ancient-tree-jurupa-oak-california.htm), blogs by [Greg Laden](http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/02/out-of-place-oak-is-13-thousan/) and [Ed Yong](http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2009/12/26/the-13000-year-old-tree-that-survives-by-cloning-itself/), and even a [YouTube parody video!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPiiGvvd3lA)

###  Pre-UCDavis

* Paper on demography and local adaptation in Arabidopsis highlighted in [F1000](http://f1000.com/prime/1120459)  
* Review on plant domesticaiton higlighted by [F1000](http://f1000.com/prime/1088796)  
* Paper on recombination and domesticaiton higlighted by [F1000](http://f1000.com/prime/1017803)