Listing of news from the Institute of Bioinformatics at University of Georgia
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.
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 her dissertation “Development of computational methods to characterize carbohydrate-protein interactions”.
Congratulations Dr. Sood!!
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 defended his dissertation “Improving canine genome annotation by identification of overmerged genes and retrogenes in current databases”.
Congratulations Dr. Huang!!
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:
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.
