Daniel McSkimming successfully defended his dissertation "Rational characterization of cancer variants in the eukaryotic protein kinase domain". Congratulations Dr. McSkimming!!...
Dr. Robert J. Woods has received significant funding from the National Institutes of Health. The U01 grant has been awarded to develop a suite of web-based tools to enable non-specialists to model glycoconjugates and glycan-protein interations. Congratulations Dr. Woods!...
Bioinformatics doctoral student Lexiang Ji is first co-author of a paper recently published in G3 - Genes Genomes Genetics. The paper is a result of collaboration with Dr. Zack Lewis, Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UGA. Ji's paper, "Histone H1 limits DNA methylation in Neurospora crassa"...
Dr. Juan Gutierrez and Dr. Jessica Kissinger are two of 40 established investigators involved in the THoR's HAMMER project, which was recently funded through a $6.4 million contract. The Defense Advances Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) are supporting the project which...
Dr. Jonathan Arnold, who oversees the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program through the Department of Genetics, has placed several REU participants with IOB faculty. The National Science Foundation program promotes active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by...
Dr. Jonathan Arnold, Graduate Coordinator of the Institute of Bioinformatics, and Professor of Genetics has introduced the UGA community to a highly advance in innovative technological teaching tool. Three panels of iWall have been installed in a classroom in the Life Sciences Building. Dr. Arnold is...
Recent PhD graduate Joydeep Mitra has accepted a Postdoc position at Memorial Sloan Ketterling Cancer Center in New York City, NY. Dr. Mitra will be working on a cancer genomics project aimed at personalized therapies. He will be joining the lab of Dr. Elli Papaemmanuil and...
Ph.D. Student Annie Kwon was awarded Best Poster at the UGA Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Retreat. The retreat, held at Unicoi State Park on May 15-16, 2016, offered two awards for best talk and two awards for best poster. This award comes with a...
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...
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"...