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Dr. Natarajan Kannan receives Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award- Congratulations Dr. Kannan!

Posted on Apr 24, 2023 in Faculty, News by iobadmin 0 Comments

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Congratualtions to Dr. Leidong Mao for being elected into National Academy of Inventors

Posted on Mar 7, 2023 in Faculty, News by iobadmin 0 Comments

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IOB Director and IOB Faculty Awarded: CDC funds for Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence

Posted on Nov 28, 2022 in Faculty, News by iobadmin 0 Comments

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Dr. Kannan: New UGA study maps the structural diversity of sugar building enzymes using AI

Posted on Oct 12, 2021 in Faculty, News by iobadmin 0 Comments

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Kannan receives $2M NIH MIRA award

Posted on Mar 18, 2021 in Faculty, News by iobadmin 0 Comments

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]  BIOLOGY | MARCH 16, 2021 By Alan Flurry (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski) University of Georgia faculty member Natarajan Kannan is a recipient of a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigator Research Award, or MIRA, from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The MIRA award is intended to...

Dr. Jessica Kissinger receives Fulbright Global Scholar Award!

Posted on Apr 6, 2020 in Faculty, News by iobadmin 0 Comments

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IOB Academic News & Events | week of APR 3rd, 2020

Posted on Apr 2, 2020 in Faculty, News, Students by iobadmin 0 Comments

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Dr. Justin Bahl interviewed on NPR to discuss mutational patterns of COVID-19

Posted on Mar 27, 2020 in Faculty, News by iobadmin 0 Comments

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Bergman, Casey

Posted on Sep 9, 2015 in Faculty by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Research interests: Research in the Bergman lab aims to infer the mechanistic and evolutionary forces that have shaped modern genomes over long periods of time in their natural environments. Current projects in the lab focus on detecting and analyzing transposable element insertions in Drosophila and yeast...

Bensasson, Douda

Posted on Sep 9, 2015 in Faculty by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Research interests: Genomes only make sense in the light of evolution, so we use a combined evolutionary and bioinformatics approach to study the parts of genomes people know least about: centromeres, repetitive and other noncoding DNA. We are also interested in the invisible world of microbes....

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