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Associate Director and Adjunct Faculty member Dr. Travis Glenn has published a paper in Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.

Finger, J.W., M.T. Hamilton, T.C. Glenn, and T.D. Tuberville. 2017. Dietary selenomethionine administration in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis): hepatic and renal Se accumulation and its effects on growth and body condition. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology doi 10.1007/s00244-017-0370-4.

Dr. Travis Glenn, adjunct professor and Associate Director of IOB, has recently published two papers.

Gilbert, G.S., J. O. Ballesteros, C. A. Barrios-Rodriguez, E. F. Bonadies, M. L. Cedeño-Sánchez, N. J. Fossatti-Caballero, M. M. Trejos-Rodríguez, J. M. Pérez-Suñiga, K. S. Holub-Young, L. A.W. Henn, J. B. Thompson, C. G. García-López, A. C. Romo, D. C. Johnston, P. P. Barrick, F. A. Jordan, S. Hershcovich, N. Russo, J. D. Sánchez, J. P. Fábrega, R. Lumpkin, H. A. McWilliams, K. N. Chester, A. C. Burgos, E. B. Wong, J. H. Diab, S. A Renteria, J. T. Harrower, D. A. Hooton, T. C. Glenn, B. C. Faircloth, S. P. Hubbell. 2016. Use of sonic tomography to detect and quantify wood decay in living trees. Applications in Plant Sciences 4(12):1600060.  doi: 10.3732/apps.1600060

Finger, J.W., M.T. Hamilton, B.S. Metts, T.C. Glenn, and T.D. Tuberville. 2016. Chronic ingestion of coal fly-ash contaminated prey and its effects on health and immune parameters in juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 71(3): 347-358. doi:10.1007/s00244-016-0301-9

The Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium 2017 will take place on Saturday, February 25, 2017,  Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical & Health Sciences, Athens, GA 30602, University of Georgia.

The Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium (GSCS) is a forum for professors, postdocs, graduate students and other researchers in Georgia to meet in an informal setting, to exchange ideas, and to highlight local scientific computing research. The symposium has been held every year since 2009 and is open to the entire research community. The format of the day-long symposium is a set of invited presentations, poster sessions and a poster blitz, and plenty of time to network with other attendees.

More information at: http://euler.math.uga.edu/cms/GSCS-2017

The next IOB Symposium will be held on Monday, September 25, 2017.

Location Details:  Georgia Center at UGA, Masters Hall

More details comming soon!

Katrien M. Devos, a professor of crop and soil sciences and plant biology at UGA, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

In 2016, 391 members were awarded this honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin in February at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2017 AAAS annual meeting in Boston.

Devos, who holds a joint appointment in UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, was elected as an AAAS Fellow for her important contributions to the field of comparative genomics of the grasses, particularly cereal grains, that are commonly grown in less developed countries.

“Selection as an AAAS Fellow is a major milestone in a scientist’s career, and thus the University of Georgia is enormously pleased Dr. Devos has been selected for this honor,” said David Lee, vice president for research. “This peer recognition is important to our faculty and it also brings added distinction to the university.”

Devos earned her doctorate from the University of Ghent, Belgium. She conducted pioneering research on the comparative genetics of cereals at the John Innes Center in Norwich, U.K., before joining UGA in 2003.

Her current research focuses on the structure, function and evolution of grass genomes, particularly switchgrass, wheat, millets and the turfgrass seashore Paspalum.

Devos recently received a $1.8 million collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation to study the genetics of finger millet, an important food security crop for many farmers in Eastern Africa, and of the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, which causes blast disease in finger millet.

The resources developed will help breeders create more efficient, sustainable varieties of finger millet that are also resistant to blast disease.

Source: Professor of crop, soil sciences, plant biology named AAAS Fellow | Columns | UGA

PhD student Rahil Taujale has been named a Training Fellow in the Glycoscience Training Program at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at UGA.

Congratulations Rahil!

More information on the GTP can be found here.

Dr. David P. Landau, Distinguished Research Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Member of the Institute of Bioinformatics, has been awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).

Federal University of Minas Gerais is a federal university located in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. UFMG is one of Brazil’s five largest universities, being the largest federal university.

PhD student Ruan Zheng has published a paper in Biochemistry.

The paper can be found here.