IOB Faculty Receives Grant
Dr. Natarajan Kannan has been awarded a 5 year NIH award to identify causative disease mutations in signaling proteins. Congratulations!!...
Dr. Natarajan Kannan has been awarded a 5 year NIH award to identify causative disease mutations in signaling proteins. Congratulations!!...
Recent Ph.D. graduates from the Bioinformatics program have found career placement at prestigious institutions. Some of these placements include The National Institutes of Health (Amir Manzour), St. Jude's Children's Hospital (Tim Shaw), Centers for Disease Control (Ujwal Bagal), University of Pennsylvania (Dorothy Hammond), Cornell Medical...
Wellcome Trusts has funded a collaborative award between University of Liverpool, UPENN, and UGA to facilitate Eukaryotic microbe data integration. Christiane Hertz-Fowler of Liverpool is the project Primary Investigator. The total Trust award is £1,517,482 ($2.37 million) over 4 years. Approximately $445,000 a year is...
IOB Director Dr. Jessica Kissinger has joined Microbial Genomics as an Editor. To read the journal, please visit http://mgen.sgmjournals.org. ...
IOB student Lexiang Ji has published in Nucleic Acids Research (Oxford Journals). The article is titled "Base-resolution detection of N4-methylcytosine in genomic DNA using 4mC-Tet-assisted-bisulfite-sequencing" You can find the paper here....
IOB student Zheng Ruan has published in Biochemistry (ACS Publications). The article is titled "Mechanistic Insights into R776H Mediated Activation of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Kinase" You can find the paper here....
IOB student Arunima Singh has published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The article, titled "The Interaction of Heparin Tetrasaccharides with Chemokine CCL5 Is Modulated by Sulfation Pattern and pH" In addition, the cover image for the June 19th edition was generated by Ms. Singh...
IOB student Elizabeth Trippe received travel awards from the New Phytologist Trust and the UGA Plant Center to attend the 35th New Phytologist Symposium: The Genomes of Forest Trees: New Frontiers of Forest Biology. Ms. Trippe was chosen to present at the conference, held at...
Dr. CJ Tsai, adjunct faculty member in the Institute of Bioinformatics, has made modifications to the genome of a tree species for the first time. Dr. Tsai is working with a gene editing tool called CRISPR/Cas to make genomic changes to specific genes in the...
Chi Zhang has published in the Journal of Molecular Cell Biology. His article "Elucidation of drivers of high-level productions of lactates throughout a cancer development" is available here....