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Two Articles Published by Bioinformatics Graduate Student

Posted on Jan 15, 2015 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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IOB graduate student Duo Peng has published two first-author papers. "Bayesian phylogeny of sucrose transporters: ancient origins, differential expansion and convergent evolution in monocots and dicots" was published in Frontiers in Plant Science. "CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Single-Gene and Gene Family Disruption in Trypanosoma cruzi" was published in mBio. ...

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IOB Student publishes paper in Quantitative Biology

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Graduate student Chi Zhang has published a paper in the September 2014 issue of Quantitative Biology. The article titled "Population dynamics inside cancer biomass driven by repeated hypoxia-reoxygenation cycles" can be found here....

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Building on big data, UPenn and UGA awarded $23.4 million pathogen genomics database contract

Posted on Dec 19, 2014 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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A genome database team led by University of Pennsylvania and University of Georgia scientists has been awarded a new contract from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease worth $4.3 million in 2014-2015. Assuming annual renewal, this five-year award is expected to total $23.4...

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UGA, Emory collaborate to leverage strengths in infectious disease research

Posted on Dec 19, 2014 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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The University of Georgia and Emory University are strengthening their collaborations to elevate the position of the Atlanta-Athens corridor as a national hub for infectious disease research. The two institutions are currently working together on grant and contract-funded projects totaling more than $45 million, including a...

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UGA, Emory collaborate to leverage strengths in infectious disease research

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The University of Georgia and Emory University are strengthening their collaborations to elevate the position of the Atlanta-Athens corridor as a national hub for infectious disease research. The two institutions are currently working together on grant and contract-funded projects totaling more than $45 million, including a...

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UGA Faculty, Students, and Alumni Sequence Bird and Crocodilian Genomes To Improve Environmental Health

Posted on Dec 19, 2014 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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An international team of scientists comprised of more than 200 researchers from 80 institutions from 20 countries has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 48 species of birds and 3 species of crocodilians to better understand the fundamental evolutionary events that led to feathers, flight,...

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UGA Faculty, Students, and Alumni Sequence Bird and Crocodilian Genomes To Improve Environmental Health

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An international team of scientists comprised of more than 200 researchers from 80 institutions from 20 countries has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 48 species of birds and 3 species of crocodilians to better understand the fundamental evolutionary events that led to feathers, flight,...

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IOB Students Defend Dissertations

Posted on Dec 11, 2014 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Jingping Li successfully defended her dissertation, titled "Detection of ancient genome duplications in several flowering plant lineages and synte-molecular comparison of homologous regions" Deli Liu successfully defended his dissertation, titled "Molecular homology between human and dog on mammary and oral cancers" Dorothy Hammond successfully defended her dissertation,...

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IOB Student Published Paper in Human Mutation

Posted on Dec 3, 2014 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Institute of Bioinformatics graduate student Daniel McSkimming published a paper in Human Mutation.Click on the title to read the article: ProKinO: A Unified Resource for Mining the Cancer Kinome ...

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Dr. Jessica Kissinger is awarded grant

Posted on Nov 17, 2014 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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Dr. Kissinger has received a two year grant from the National Institutes of Health. The title of the project is "Resolution of Genome Duplications in Tosoplasma gondii"...

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