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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant

Posted on May 11, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Faculty of the Institute of Bioinformatics have received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a better reference genome annotation and metabolic map for the protist pathogen Cryptosporidium. IOB Graduate student Yiran Li will be working on the comparative genomics aspects of...

Winner of the Ying Xu Outstanding Paper Award

Posted on May 9, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Yi H. Yan is the winner of the Ying Xu Outstanding Paper Award. Papers published during the 2015 calendar year were submitted to consideration. Mr. Yan's paper, "Mathematical model of susceptibility, resistance, and resilience in the within-host dynamics between a Plasmodium parasite and the immune system"...

IOB Promotions and Tenure

Posted on Apr 19, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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IOB is excited to announce that three faculty members have received promotions. Dr. Shaying Zhao has been promoted to Professor. Dr. Liang Liu has been promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure. Dr. Juan Gutierrez has been promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations!!!...

IOB Student Receives Research Grant and Defends Masters Thesis

Posted on Apr 19, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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IOB graduate student Duo Peng has been awarded an Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant from the UGA Graduate School. In addition, Duo successfully defended his masters thesis, "Frequent Intra-family Recombination in the Largest Repository of Antigen Variants in the Protozoan Pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi". Duo will continue his...

Recent IOB Graduate Accepts Position

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Recent PhD graduate Anita Nivedha has accepted a Post-doc position with Beckman Research Institute. Dr. Nivedha will work on GPCRs and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation method. Beckman Research Institute of an adjoining medical center together form City of Hope, a cancer center located in the suburbs...

Chi Zhang wins Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award

Posted on Feb 25, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Recent IOB graduate Chi Zhang has been awarded a Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award. Initiated in 1999 to recognize the quality and significance of graduate student scholarship, these awards may be given in five areas: Fine Arts, Humanities and Letters, Life Sciences, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and ...

Dr. Jessica Kissinger Given the 2016 Richard Reiff Award

Posted on Feb 2, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Dr. Jessica Kissinger has been awarded the 2016 Richard Reiff Award, The University of Georgia's highest award for internationalization. Dr. Kissinger has created an extensive international research network. This award is richly deserved....

IOB Adjunct Faculty Member Publishes Paper

Posted on Jan 20, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Dr. Scott Jackson has published "Landscape and evolutionary dynamics of terminal repeat retrotransposons in miniature in plant genomes" in Genome Biology. Click to view the paper...

NIH R21 Proposal Funded

Posted on Jan 14, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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An NIH R21 proposal based on the work of IOB graduate student Duo Peng, who works in the Tarleton lab, has been funded. The title of the proposal is "Development of CRISPR/Cas system for study of trans-sialidase family genes in Trypanosoma cruzi"...

Two IOB Faculty contribute to Publication

Posted on Jan 8, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Liang Liu and Jessie Kissinger are key contributors to a 62 genome pathogen analysis published in Nature Communications this week. Click here to read "Local admixture of amplified and diversified secreted pathogenesis determinants shapes mosaic Toxoplasma gondii genomes"...

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