PhD Application Deadline Extended
The deadline to apply for a PhD in Bioinformatics through Integrated Life Sciences program has been extended to DEC 8 | 2016.
Please review the Master/PhD page on our website for further details.
Amika Sood Successfully Defends Dissertation
Amika Sood successfully defends her dissertation “Development of computational methods to characterize carbohydrate-protein interactions”.
Congratulations Dr. Sood!!
Dr. Alexander Bucksch attending AGU Fall Meeting
Dr. Bucksch is the session organizer at the AGU Fall meeting being held in San Fransisco, California, December 12-16, 2016. Dr. Bucksch’s session is titled “Revealing the hidden half: Advances in imaging and quantification of plant roots and root-soil interactions.”
Yecheng Huang Successfully Defends Dissertation
Yecheng Huang successfully defended his dissertation “Improving canine genome annotation by identification of overmerged genes and retrogenes in current databases”.
Congratulations Dr. Huang!!
New Course Offered: BINF 8950
BINF 8950 – SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Systems Biology is about explaining complex traits, such as the clock, development, carbon cycling, and malaria in terms of underlying pathways. We will introduce omics approaches to identifying the underlying pathways for such traits.
We are taking a novel educational approach to systems biology using the framework of a collaboratorium, in which students work in collaborative teams on an interdisciplinary project providing the capstone experience for the course. Each student will develop their own personalized syllabus using a tool call ALICE for Adaptive Learning in an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Environment to solve a systems biology research problem of their team’s choosing.
Time and Place: 4:00 to 5:30 pm Tuesday & Thursday, C128 Life Sciences
The syllabus for the course is available:
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!!
IOB Faculty, Alum, Student Publish Article in Scientific Reports
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 Publishes Paper
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 Featured on UGA Graduate School Website
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 accepted to IEEE DSAA 2016
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.