Listing of news from the Institute of Bioinformatics at University of Georgia
IOB student, Annie Kwon, in Dr. Kannan’s Lab is selected for the Franklin-Liverpool Fellowship. Annie will obtain international exposure and training in Dr. Eyer’s lab at the University of Liverpool, UK, through this fellowship. Congrats Annie!!
Dr. Liang Liu and his colleagues produced a genome-scale dataset from representatives of all placental mammal orders to infer diversification timing relative to the Cretaceous–Paleogene (KPg) boundary. The phylogenetic analysis suggested that placental mammals underwent a continuous radiation across the KPg boundary. The results have been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), which is available at http://www.pnas.org/content/114/35/E7282.abstract
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Frank Fan successfully defended his dissertation “Statistical Considerations of Expression Quantitative Loci (eQTL) Mapping with Next Generation Sequencing Data”.
Congratulations Dr. Fan!!
Xi Gu successfully defended her dissertation “Dual Subcellular Localization and Non-Photosynthetic Functions of Phylloquinone in Parasitic and Non-parasitic Plants”.
Congratulations Dr. Gu!!
Dr. Casey Bergman, IOB faculty member, has published a paper in G3: Genes Genomics Genetics.
“McClintock: An Integrated Pipeline for Detecting Transposable Element Insertions in Whole Genome Shotgun Sequencing Data” was published in G3: Genes Genomics Genetics in June of this year. The paper can be found here.
Dr. Robert Woods, adjunct faculty with the Institute of Bioinformatics, was recently awarded an NIH U01 grant titled “GlyProbity: tools to curate glycan structure pre and post deposition in the PDB”.
Congratulations Dr. Woods!!
Editor’s note: This video profile is part of a series about UGA faculty who were named Distinguished Research Professors in 2017.
Jessica Kissinger, professor of genetics, is a globally recognized molecular biologist and world expert in bio-computational research whose contributions to the field of eukaryotic pathogen research have helped transform how pathogen research is conducted internationally.
An expert on the evolution of parasite genomes, she conducted the first systematic survey of gene transfer in the Apicomplexa, upending prevailing thought. Her subsequent series of papers on the Apicomplexa also opened a new window into genome evolution and the biology of several other important disease-causing organisms.
Her most recognized and sustained contribution to science has been the co-creation, maintenance and enhancement of integrated omics tools to facilitate research on eukaryotic pathogens.
The databases and program resources developed under Kissinger’s leadership have evolved into a global team continuously supported by NIH for 15 years and designated an NIH Bioinformatics Resource Center. At UGA, she established the pre-eminent bioinformatics group in the area of parasitic diseases.
Yi Yan successfully defended his dissertation “Multi-omic and Multi-scale Data Integration for the Characterization of Malaria Infection in Non-Human Primates”.
Congratulations Dr. Yan!!
Dr. Arthur Edison and Dr. Natarajan Kannan, as well as members of their labs, have contributed to a project that has resulted in a breakthrough in the treatment of leukemia. While working with Dr. Takahiro Ito, the researchers have identified a new drug target for the two most common types of myeloid leukemia. Their results have been published in Nature.
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