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Category: News

Listing of news from the Institute of Bioinformatics at University of Georgia

Recent Graduate Accepts Position

Dr. Chi Zhang, recent graduate in the Bioinformatics program, has accepted a position at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Zhang will be an assistant professor in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics and his research will be associated with the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

We offer congratulations and wish him good luck on his new endeavors!

IOB Student Lexiang Ji Publishes Paper

IOB student Lexiang Ji has published in PNAS . The article is titled “On the origin and evolutionary consequences of gene body DNA methylation.” Dr. Bob Schmitz is the corresponding author.

IOB Faculty Member Awarded Fellowship

Dr. Art Edison has been given a Fulbright Specialist Fellowship. Dr. Edison will teach NMR and metabolomics to students in Ecuador, spending significant time in country to teach, develop new collaborations, and recruit graduate students to the University of Georgia.

REU Poster Session

IOB Graduate Coordinator Dr. Jonathan Arnold invites all to visit the Georgia Center Hotel Lobby on Friday, July 22 for the REU Poster Session. Over 60 participants from around the country will present their posters from 9:00 to 11:00AM.

IOB Faculty Member Awarded NIH Grant

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!

IOB Graduate Student Publishes in G3

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” can be found here.