Mazama Technologies, Inc. is a start-up company in Corvallis, OR. Our team includes leaders in plant genomics, gene regulation and silencing, circadian/diurnal biology, model grasses, and computational biology. Our mission is to discover useful trait genes for agronomically valuable crops, using the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon.
Founders of Mazama Technologies, Inc
James C. Carrington Jim is a professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, and Director of the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, at Oregon State University (OSU). He also leads the Computational and Genome Biology Initiative at OSU. Jim is a leader in the fields of gene silencing and host-virus interactions in plants, authoring over 125 scientific publications. He is co-inventor on four patents. Jim has been recognized with numerous honors and awards, including election as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Todd C. Mockler Todd is a professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, and an affiliate of the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, at Oregon State University. His research areas include diurnal and circadian control of plant gene expression, regulation of alternative splicing, plant genome sequencing, and bioinformatics, and his published work has provided critical tools and approaches for using high-throughput data to understand complex systems. Todd was a principal investigator for the international consortium that sequenced the Brachypodium distachyon genome.