Senior IOB student Xi Gu has been awarded an Interdisciplinary and Innovative Research Grant from the UGA Graduate School. Ms. Gu will use the award for her summer research projects. Congratulations to Ms. Gu!...
Senior IOB student Xi Gu has been awarded an Interdisciplinary and Innovative Research Grant from the UGA Graduate School. Ms. Gu will use the award for her summer research projects. Congratulations to Ms. Gu!...
IOB Faculty member CJ Tsai is part of a team working to create stress-free and disease-free trees. Dr. Tsai, who is faculty in Genetics and Forestry, is part of a team who are using a $490,000 grant to identify the genes that are responsible for...
IOB student Lexiang Ji has published a paper in Molecular Plant. "Crop Epigenomics: Identifying, Unlocking, and Harnessing Cryptic Variation in Crop Genomes" discusses discoveries in crop epigenomics, in particular the role of DNA methylation in development, evolution, and response to environmental changes. To read the...
Ahmad Al-Omari successfully defended his dissertation "Discovering a Regulatory Network Topology by Markov Chain Monte-Carlo on GPGPUS with Special Reference to the Biological Clock of Neurospora crassa". Congratulations to Dr. Al-Omari!...
The winners of the 2014 Ying Xu Outstanding Student Paper Award are Deli Liu and Chi Zhang. Congratulations are in order for both gentlemen, who had significant findings published in 2014....
Ahmad Al-Omari has published the third and final chapter of his dissertation. "Discovering regulatory network topologies using ensemble methods on GPGPUs with special reference to the biological clock of Neurospora crassa" has been published in IEEE Xplore and can be viewed here....
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. ...
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....
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...