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Recent IOB Graduate Accepts Position

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Recent PhD graduate Anita Nivedha has accepted a Post-doc position with Beckman Research Institute. Dr. Nivedha will work on GPCRs and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation method. Beckman Research Institute of an adjoining medical center together form City of Hope, a cancer center located in the suburbs...

Chi Zhang wins Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award

Posted on Feb 25, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Recent IOB graduate Chi Zhang has been awarded a Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award. Initiated in 1999 to recognize the quality and significance of graduate student scholarship, these awards may be given in five areas: Fine Arts, Humanities and Letters, Life Sciences, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and ...

Dr. Jessica Kissinger Given the 2016 Richard Reiff Award

Posted on Feb 2, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Dr. Jessica Kissinger has been awarded the 2016 Richard Reiff Award, The University of Georgia's highest award for internationalization. Dr. Kissinger has created an extensive international research network. This award is richly deserved....

IOB Adjunct Faculty Member Publishes Paper

Posted on Jan 20, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Dr. Scott Jackson has published "Landscape and evolutionary dynamics of terminal repeat retrotransposons in miniature in plant genomes" in Genome Biology. Click to view the paper...

NIH R21 Proposal Funded

Posted on Jan 14, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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An NIH R21 proposal based on the work of IOB graduate student Duo Peng, who works in the Tarleton lab, has been funded. The title of the proposal is "Development of CRISPR/Cas system for study of trans-sialidase family genes in Trypanosoma cruzi"...

Two IOB Faculty contribute to Publication

Posted on Jan 8, 2016 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Liang Liu and Jessie Kissinger are key contributors to a 62 genome pathogen analysis published in Nature Communications this week. Click here to read "Local admixture of amplified and diversified secreted pathogenesis determinants shapes mosaic Toxoplasma gondii genomes"...

Six Ph.D. students Join Bioinformatics

Posted on Dec 24, 2015 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Six students have joined the Institute of Bioinformatics to pursue doctorate degrees in Bioinformatics. Burair Alsaihati Liang-Chin Huang Yiran Li Rahil Taujale Joshua Watson Shumeng Zhang We're excited to welcome them to the program and the IOB community!...

IOB Graduates 11 Ph.D. Students in 2015

Posted on Dec 24, 2015 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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As the year comes to a close, we'd like to again congratulate the 11 students who completed their Ph.D. degrees in Bioinformatics in 2015. Dr. Ahmad Al-Omari Dr. Yulun Chiu Dr. Tess Griffin Dr. Yongjie Huang Dr. Fei Ji Dr. Spandana Makeneni Dr. Joydeep Mitra Dr. Anita Nivedha Dr. Arunima Singh Dr. Chi Zhang Dr. Dong...

Joydeep Mitra Successfully Defends Dissertation

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Joydeep Mitra successfully defended his dissertation “Identification of trans-acting sRNA targets in Bacteria”. Congratulations Dr. Mirta! ...

Chi Zhang Successfully Defends Dissertation

Posted on Nov 19, 2015 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Chi Zhang successfully defended his dissertation "Deciphering possible roles of micro-environmental stresses in cancer initiation and progression by modeling of cancer omics data". Congratulations Dr. Zhang!...

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