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David Ristig, Jim Fassell, Dr. Richard Malcolm and Mark Lomas on the steps of Memorial Hall, Chapman College, Orange, California
No full textProfessional athletes enrolled at Chapman College in Orange, California, in order to prepare for careers in secondary education. Posing on the steps of Memorial Hall are [from left] David Ristig, L. A. Dodgers; Jim Fassell, Hawaiian Team, World Football League; Dr. Richard Malcolm, Chairman of the Education Division; and Mark Lomas, N. Y. Jets. Ristig coached at Chapman 1977-1981. Fassell was coach of NFL team in 1997 and a graduate of Anaheim High School.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cu_athletics/1002/thumbnail.jp
Chapman: Adjunct Faculty Have Much to Add
No full textThis article focuses on two Chapman adjunct faculty members stories, two different people – but so many similarities. These people are Mark Chapin Johnson, an American-born entrepreneur who still believes in the American Dream, and Dr. Zoltan Mester, a political-refugee scientist who came here because of that dream. Both stories are connected by an uncommon love for education and an even greater love for the students at Chapman University
Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Coming clean on COVID-19 costs
No full textThis week on Democracy Sausage, Miranda Stewart and Bruce Chapman join us to discuss budget transparency in a post-coronavirus crisis world, and whether there’s a role for an income-contingent loan scheme in COVID-19 economics. The coronavirus crisis has seen governments around the world throw the economic rulebook out to pump vast sums into struggling economies. But how can we ensure that balancing budgets is done with transparency? And could there be a role for a HECS-style scheme in post-crisis economics? This week on Democracy Sausage, Professor Mark Kenny is joined by Professor Bruce Chapman AM, the architect of Australia’s higher education income contingent loan scheme, tax and transfer expert Professor Miranda Stewart, and regular guest and political scientist Dr Marija Taflaga
The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
No full textContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
Novel breeding resources for the underutilised legume, lablab, based on a pangenome approach
No full textIndividuals across a species exhibit substantial presence-absence variation, to the extent that a reference genome from a single individual only contains a subset of the species’ genome. Cataloguing genome regions absent from a reference genome can therefore reveal novel genome regions, and some of this variation can be adaptive. In this work, existing short sequencing reads for the underutilised crop lablab (Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet) were used to identify regions of the genome absent from the reference genome. Lablab is made up of two distinct gene pools, each with wild and domesticated types therefore represents an opportunity to identify gene pool-specific variation. Approximately 7.7% of the reads from eight accessions failed to map to the lablab reference genome (cv. Highworth), putatively being novel, and these were assembled and collapsed into between 735 and 12,304 contigs. Four samples were focussed on (one each wild and domesticated from each of the gene pools) and the novel contigs compared, to identify those present only in subsets of samples. Whilst the number of contigs containing sequenced with similarity to known genes in other legumes was low, there were some enriched gene ontology (GO) terms that could relate to adaptive differences between the groups and therefore contain novel genes for future lablab breeding. The approached used here has potential use in any other species.</p
Transcriptome sequencing and marker development for four underutilized legumes
No full textPREMISE OF THE STUDY:Combating threats to food and nutrition security in the context of climate change and global population increase is one of the highest priorities of major international organizations. Hundreds of species are grown on a small scale in some of the most drought/flood-prone regions of the world and as such may harbor some of the most environmentally tolerant crops (and alleles). •METHODS AND RESULTS:In this study, transcriptomes were sequenced, assembled, and annotated for four underutilized legume crops. Microsatellite markers were identified in each species, as well as a conserved orthologous set of markers for cross-family phylogenetics and comparative mapping, which were ground-truthed on a panel of diverse legume germplasm. •CONCLUSIONS:An understanding of these underutilized legumes will inform crop selection and breeding by allowing the investigation of genetic variation and the genetic basis of adaptive traits to be established
Data from: Transcriptome sequencing and marker development for four underutilized legumes
No full textPremise of the study: Combating threats to food and nutrition security in the context of climate change and global population increase is one of the highest priorities of major international organizations. Hundreds of species are grown on a small scale in some of the most drought/flood-prone regions of the world and as such may harbor some of the most environmentally tolerant crops (and alleles). Methods and Results: In this study, transcriptomes were sequenced, assembled, and annotated for four underutilized legume crops. Microsatellite markers were identified in each species, as well as a conserved orthologous set of markers for cross-family phylogenetics and comparative mapping, which were ground-truthed on a panel of diverse legume germplasm. Conclusions: An understanding of these underutilized legumes will inform crop selection and breeding by allowing the investigation of genetic variation and the genetic basis of adaptive traits to be established.,Lablab purpureus transcriptome assemblyLablab purpureus transcriptome assemblyLapuTrinityEd.fastaLathyrus sativus transcriptome assemblyLathyrus sativus transcriptome assemblyLasaTrinityEd.fastaPsophocarpus tetragonolobus transcriptome assemblyPsophocarpus tetragonolobus transcriptome assemblyPsteTrinityEd.fastaVigna subterranea transcriptome assemblyVigna subterranea transcriptome assemblyVisuTrinityEd.fasta</span
Optimizing depth and type of high-throughput sequencing data for microsatellite discovery
No full textPREMISE: Simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers (microsatellites) are a mainstay of many labs, especially when working on a limited budget, carrying out preliminary analyses, and in teaching. Whether SSRs mined from plant genomes or transcriptomes are preferred for certain applications, and the depth of sequencing needed to allow efficient SSR discovery, has not been tested.METHODS: I used genome and transcriptome high-throughput sequencing data at a range of sequencing depths to compare efficacy of SSR identification. I then tested primers from tomato for amplification, polymorphism, and transferability to related species.RESULTS: Small assemblies (two million read pairs) identified ca. 200–2000 potential markers from the genome assemblies and ca. 600–3650 from the transcriptome assemblies. Genomederived contigs were often short, potentially precluding primer design. Genomic SSR primers were less transferable across species but exhibited greater variation (partially explained by being composed of more repeat units) than transcriptome-derived primers.DISCUSSION: Small high-throughput sequencing resources may be sufficient for identification of hundreds of SSRs. Genomic data may be preferable in species with low polymorphism, but transcriptome data may result in longer loci (more amenable to primer design) and primers may be more trasferable to related species
Putting the pea in photoPEAriod
No full textWith an increasing human population, we are facing the need to grow more food, potentially expanding the environmental tolerances of our staple crops (Godfray et al., 2010; Campbell et al., 2016). The barriers to this include temperature, rainfall, soil type, daylength, and seasonality. In this issue, Williams et al., in their study entitled ‘The genetic architecture of flowering time changes in pea from wild to crop’, advance our understanding of crop adaptation to photoperiod by revealing the genetic basis of photoperiod sensitivity in peas
) using environmental association analysis
No full textOryza rufipogon is the wild progenitor of cultivated rice Oryza sativa and exhibits high levels of genetic diversity across its distribution, making it a useful resource for the identification of abiotic stress-tolerant varieties and genes that could limit future climate-changed-induced yield losses. To investigate local adaptation in O. rufipogon, we analyzed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from a panel of 286 samples located across a diverse range of climates. Environmental association analysis (EAA), a genome-wide association study (GWAS)-based method, was used and revealed 15 regions of the genome significantly associated with various climate factors. Genes within these environmentally associated regions have putative functions in abiotic stress response, phytohormone signaling, and the control of flowering time. This provides an insight into potential local adaptation in O. rufipogon and reveals possible locally adaptive genes that may provide opportunities for breeding novel rice varieties with climate change-resilient phenotypes.</p
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