Sabbatical visitor Rod Wing wins prestigious Humboldt Award

Professor Rod Wing, Director of the Arizona Genomics Institute at the University of Arizona, has won a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award is granted to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in future.

Rod is spending a year-long sabbatical in the Department, with the aim of developing new strategies for comparative genomics in both rice and Brassicaceae.