Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics
We use genomic tools to address ecological and evolutionary questions in a variety of systems. Learn more about our research here.
For a complete list of publications, see Nolan's google scholar page. Our research is supported by your tax-deductible donations through the University of Colorado Foundation. You can:
By phone: Call 303-541-1290 and donate via credit card over the phone. Specify the funds go to Foundation Fund 0125196 (Kane Research Fund).
On the web, at cufund.org ( here) write in the Comments: Kane Research Fund, Foundation Fund: 0125196
Check Send to CU Foundation, PO Box 17126, Denver, CO 80217, check payable CU Foundation and write 0125196 in the memo section.
For a complete list of publications, see Nolan's google scholar page. Our research is supported by your tax-deductible donations through the University of Colorado Foundation. You can:
By phone: Call 303-541-1290 and donate via credit card over the phone. Specify the funds go to Foundation Fund 0125196 (Kane Research Fund).
On the web, at cufund.org ( here) write in the Comments: Kane Research Fund, Foundation Fund: 0125196
Check Send to CU Foundation, PO Box 17126, Denver, CO 80217, check payable CU Foundation and write 0125196 in the memo section.
Highlights and Updates
Now hiring and recruiting lab tech and undergraduate work study positions!
Growing plants in the greenhouse, harvesting tissue, extracting DNA, assessing DNA quality, preparing samples for genome sequencing and analyzing genomic sequence data. Email nolan.kane@colorado.edu
7.2.2020
Congrats to all of the students from my 2019 Genomics class for a nice student led paper already published from the class. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23802359.2020.1790999
4.11.2019
Our first Kane Lab patent, led by CU undergrads Chris Pauli and Kayla Clancy!
patents.google.com/patent/WO2019070876A2/en
6.26.2018
Congratulations to Chris Smith on his paper on the genetics and evolution of splicing during domestication of Common Sunflower!
www.pnas.org/content/115/26/6768.short
4.19.2017
Congratulations, Daniela and Cinnamon, on an excellent paper in Scientific Reports comparing the marijuana used in federally-approved research to what is available in state-legal markets.
4.16.2017
The sunflower genome was just announced in Nature ! After 12+ years of work by a huge group of people, its great to see this finally released.
3.30.2017
The Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences special issue on Cannabis just came out, with a paper lead by Daniela, another lead by Ryan, and a 3rd with lots of Kane Lab co-authors:
8.15.2016
Second issue in a row on the cover of Molecular Ecology,
Genome-wide differentiation in closely related populations: the roles of selection and geographic isolation (pages 3865–3883)R. J. Safran, E. S. C. Scordato, M. R. Wilkins, J. K. Hubbard, B. R. Jenkins, T. Albrecht, S. M. Flaxman, H. Karaardıç, Y. Vortman, A. Lotem, P. Nosil, P. Pap, S. Shen, S.-F. Chan, T.L. Parchman and N. C. Kane
8.1.2016
Article highlighted as a From the cover article in the journal Molecular Ecology,
Rapid genome-wide evolution in Brassica rapa populations following drought revealed by sequencing of ancestral and descendant gene pools (pages 3622–3631)Steven J. Franks, Nolan C. Kane, Niamh B. O'Hara, Silas Tittes and Joshua S. Rest
5.1.2016
Congratulations, Kyle, for another paper, this one on
The complete mitochondrial genome of the Warm Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon nevadensis pectoralis
K Keepers, AP Martin, NC Kane
Mitochondrial DNA Part A 27 (4), 2349-2350
5.1.2016
Cloe joins the lab! We are excited to have a wonderful new addition to the Kane lab. Cloe is graduate student who has recently transferred over to our lab from MCDB. We are looking forward to working having someone in the lab so adept at wet lab work.
2.05.16
Daniela Presents at woman grow, an organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering the female leaders in the cannabis industry! Check out her profile here http://womengrow.com/project/daniela-vergara/
12.14.15
Erin and Pablo graduate with honors! The two resident undergrads in the lab have finished up and graduated from CU! Thankfully they will remain at CU for a little while longer finishing up some of their ongoing research in the lab.
7.1.15
Kristin gets published for her work on the cannabis mitochondria, the first of its kind! Check it out here http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/imdn21#.VzuRT5MrIp8
10.15.2014
Thanks to some great advice and assistance from Black Dog LED, we are well on our way to setting up the first legal Cannabis grow room on campus at CU. Low THC only for now, but there are dozens of other interesting and important cannabinoids, and we can do some very important work to understand and improve industrial hemp.
08.01.2014
Congratulations to Silas, for his first published paper!
The genomics of adaptation, divergence and speciation: a congealing theoryS Tittes, NC Kane. Molecular ecology 23 (16), 3938-3940
04.17.2014
Sequence-Based Analysis of Structural Organization and Composition of the Cultivated Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Genome. Gill N, Buti M, Kane N, Bellec A, Helmstetter N, Berges H, Rieseberg LH. Biology. 2014; 3(2):295-319.
03.19.2014
Daniela has made a beautiful website for our Cannabis Geomic Research Initiative (CGRI).
11.18.2013
Genome skimming reveals the origin of the Jerusalem Artichoke tuber crop species: neither from Jerusalem nor an Artichoke. DG Bock, NC Kane, DP Ebert, and LH Rieseberg. New Phytologist.
10. 21.2013
Check out our new citizen science website, The Sunflower Community Project, and the associated iNaturalist data entry site! We look forward to your participation.
10. 06.2013
The repetitive component of the sunflower genome as shown by different procedures for assembling next generation sequencing reads. L Natali, et al. BMC genomics 14 (1), 686.
09.01.2013
Hodgins et al. "Genomics of Compositae crops: reference transcriptome assemblies and evidence of hybridization with wild relatives" published online early at Molecular Ecology Resources (Impact factor 7.4).
08.28.2013
-Cloe Pogoda joins the lab as a rotating IQ Bio grad student.
08.26.2013
-Post-doc Daniela Vergara joins the lab, working on the evolution of extremophiles via hybridization.
08.20.2013
-Niamh O'Hara is visiting the lab from Stony Brook University, working on Brassica drought adaptation.
08.19.2013
-The Kane Lab is official - Nolan starts his faculty position at CU
-Silas starts his position as lab manager
Growing plants in the greenhouse, harvesting tissue, extracting DNA, assessing DNA quality, preparing samples for genome sequencing and analyzing genomic sequence data. Email nolan.kane@colorado.edu
7.2.2020
Congrats to all of the students from my 2019 Genomics class for a nice student led paper already published from the class. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23802359.2020.1790999
4.11.2019
Our first Kane Lab patent, led by CU undergrads Chris Pauli and Kayla Clancy!
patents.google.com/patent/WO2019070876A2/en
6.26.2018
Congratulations to Chris Smith on his paper on the genetics and evolution of splicing during domestication of Common Sunflower!
www.pnas.org/content/115/26/6768.short
4.19.2017
Congratulations, Daniela and Cinnamon, on an excellent paper in Scientific Reports comparing the marijuana used in federally-approved research to what is available in state-legal markets.
4.16.2017
The sunflower genome was just announced in Nature ! After 12+ years of work by a huge group of people, its great to see this finally released.
3.30.2017
The Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences special issue on Cannabis just came out, with a paper lead by Daniela, another lead by Ryan, and a 3rd with lots of Kane Lab co-authors:
8.15.2016
Second issue in a row on the cover of Molecular Ecology,
Genome-wide differentiation in closely related populations: the roles of selection and geographic isolation (pages 3865–3883)R. J. Safran, E. S. C. Scordato, M. R. Wilkins, J. K. Hubbard, B. R. Jenkins, T. Albrecht, S. M. Flaxman, H. Karaardıç, Y. Vortman, A. Lotem, P. Nosil, P. Pap, S. Shen, S.-F. Chan, T.L. Parchman and N. C. Kane
8.1.2016
Article highlighted as a From the cover article in the journal Molecular Ecology,
Rapid genome-wide evolution in Brassica rapa populations following drought revealed by sequencing of ancestral and descendant gene pools (pages 3622–3631)Steven J. Franks, Nolan C. Kane, Niamh B. O'Hara, Silas Tittes and Joshua S. Rest
5.1.2016
Congratulations, Kyle, for another paper, this one on
The complete mitochondrial genome of the Warm Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon nevadensis pectoralis
K Keepers, AP Martin, NC Kane
Mitochondrial DNA Part A 27 (4), 2349-2350
5.1.2016
Cloe joins the lab! We are excited to have a wonderful new addition to the Kane lab. Cloe is graduate student who has recently transferred over to our lab from MCDB. We are looking forward to working having someone in the lab so adept at wet lab work.
2.05.16
Daniela Presents at woman grow, an organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering the female leaders in the cannabis industry! Check out her profile here http://womengrow.com/project/daniela-vergara/
12.14.15
Erin and Pablo graduate with honors! The two resident undergrads in the lab have finished up and graduated from CU! Thankfully they will remain at CU for a little while longer finishing up some of their ongoing research in the lab.
7.1.15
Kristin gets published for her work on the cannabis mitochondria, the first of its kind! Check it out here http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/imdn21#.VzuRT5MrIp8
10.15.2014
Thanks to some great advice and assistance from Black Dog LED, we are well on our way to setting up the first legal Cannabis grow room on campus at CU. Low THC only for now, but there are dozens of other interesting and important cannabinoids, and we can do some very important work to understand and improve industrial hemp.
08.01.2014
Congratulations to Silas, for his first published paper!
The genomics of adaptation, divergence and speciation: a congealing theoryS Tittes, NC Kane. Molecular ecology 23 (16), 3938-3940
04.17.2014
Sequence-Based Analysis of Structural Organization and Composition of the Cultivated Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Genome. Gill N, Buti M, Kane N, Bellec A, Helmstetter N, Berges H, Rieseberg LH. Biology. 2014; 3(2):295-319.
03.19.2014
Daniela has made a beautiful website for our Cannabis Geomic Research Initiative (CGRI).
11.18.2013
Genome skimming reveals the origin of the Jerusalem Artichoke tuber crop species: neither from Jerusalem nor an Artichoke. DG Bock, NC Kane, DP Ebert, and LH Rieseberg. New Phytologist.
10. 21.2013
Check out our new citizen science website, The Sunflower Community Project, and the associated iNaturalist data entry site! We look forward to your participation.
10. 06.2013
The repetitive component of the sunflower genome as shown by different procedures for assembling next generation sequencing reads. L Natali, et al. BMC genomics 14 (1), 686.
09.01.2013
Hodgins et al. "Genomics of Compositae crops: reference transcriptome assemblies and evidence of hybridization with wild relatives" published online early at Molecular Ecology Resources (Impact factor 7.4).
08.28.2013
-Cloe Pogoda joins the lab as a rotating IQ Bio grad student.
08.26.2013
-Post-doc Daniela Vergara joins the lab, working on the evolution of extremophiles via hybridization.
08.20.2013
-Niamh O'Hara is visiting the lab from Stony Brook University, working on Brassica drought adaptation.
08.19.2013
-The Kane Lab is official - Nolan starts his faculty position at CU
-Silas starts his position as lab manager
