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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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[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] CDC funds Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence November 18, 2022 by Lauren Baggett The new Georgia-based Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence aims to strengthen response to infectious disease threats and support public health workforce development. The team will be led by Rebecca...

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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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[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 width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 10:22am By:Alan Flurry Sugars in our bodies, and in nearly all living organisms, are synthesized and built by a large family of proteins called Glycosyltransferases (GTs) that adopt unique three-dimensional structures and folds to...

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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...

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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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[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]   IOB faculty member, Dr. Justin Bahl, was recently interviewed on NPR to discuss mutational patterns of the coronavirus.  Please see the links below details.   https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/822107691/the-coronavirus-is-mutating-relatively-slowly-which-may-be-good-news https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/25/820998549/the-coronavirus-is-mutating-but-that-may-not-be-a-problem-for-humans[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][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_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

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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...

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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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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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Wallace, Jason

Posted on Sep 9, 2015 in Faculty by ovprweb 0 Comments
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Research Interests: My research focuses on using quantitative genetics, genomics, statistics, and bioinformatics to improve crops. My lab has a small field and wet-lab component and a large computational one; our work includes genome-wide marker development, trait mapping, population genetics, and genome assembly. Maize is the...

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