Graduate Student Earns Award
PhD student Xi Gu has been awarded first place for her poster in the Cytoscape competition at the RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges & Cytoscape Workshop.
Congrats Xi!!
Listing of news from the Institute of Bioinformatics at University of Georgia
PhD student Xi Gu has been awarded first place for her poster in the Cytoscape competition at the RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges & Cytoscape Workshop.
Congrats Xi!!
IOB Faculty, Dr. Jonathan Arnold and Dr. Heinz-Bernd Shuttler, along with Dr. Ahmad Al-Omari, (PhD 2015) and Sam Arsenault (BINF Certificate) have published an article in Scientific Reports.
“Synchronizing stochastic circadian oscillators in single cells of Neurospora crassa” can be read here
Recent graduate Dr. Daniel McSkimming has published a paper in Molecular BioSystems.
His paper, “KinView: a visual comparative sequence analysis tool for integrated kinome research” can be viewed here.
Bioinformatics doctoral student Tito Peña Montenegro is being featured on the UGA Graduate School website. His work on metagenomics and metatranscriptomic data sets is detailed in the story. You can read the story here.
Dr. Shannon Quinn, faculty in the Institute of Bioinformatics, has had a paper accepted to IEEE DSAA 2016, being held in Montreal, Canada in October 2016.
Researchers from the lab of Dr. CJ Tsai have published a network paper in Scientific Reports.
To download the paper, please click here.
Dr. Shannon Quinn will be co-chairing the OSBD BigData Conference workshop, hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, on December 508, 2016. The conference workshop is being held in Washington, D.C.
For more information click here.
Dr. Travis Glenn has published two papers in a special issue of Molecular Ecology Resources.
The papers were included in a special issue that Dr. Glenn was asked to co-edit. The papers are: “Capturing Darwin’s dream” and :RADcap: Sequence capture of dual-digest RADseq libraries with identifiable duplicates and reduced missing data”.
References are below and the papers can be found here and here.
Glenn, T. C., B. C. Faircloth. 2016. Capturing Darwin’s dream. Molecular Ecology Resources 16(5):1051-1058. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12574; PMID: 27543423
Hoffberg, S. L., T. J. Kieran, J. M. Catchen, A. Devault, B. C. Faircloth, R. Mauricio, T. C. Glenn. 2016. RADcap: Sequence capture of dual-digest RADseq libraries with identifiable duplicates and reduced missing data. Molecular Ecology Resources 16(5):1264-1278. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12566; PMID:27416967
Dr. Travis Glenn has published a paper in Systems Biology. “Analysis of a rapid evolutionary radiation using ultraconserved elements (UCEs): Evidence for a bias in some multispecies coalescent methods” is reference below and you can read it online here.
Meiklejohn, K. A., B. C. Faircloth, T. C. Glenn, R. T. Kimball, and E. L. Braun. 2016. Analysis of a rapid evolutionary radiation using ultraconserved elements (UCEs): Evidence for a bias in some multispecies coalescent methods. Systematic Biology 65(4): 612-627. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syw014
“Sequence capture versus restriction site associated DNA sequencing for shallow systematics” has been published in Systematic Biology. The paper can be read here and the reference is below.
Harvey, M. G., B. T. Smith, T. C. Glenn, B. C. Faircloth, and R. T. Brumfield. (2016) Sequence capture versus restriction site associated DNA sequencing for shallow systematics. Systematic Biology Syst Biol (2016) 65 (5): 910-924. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syw036