Listing of news from the Institute of Bioinformatics at University of Georgia
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 Zhang
We wish them the best of luck in the upcoming year as they starts their careers!
Congratulations Dr. Mirta!
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!
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!
Arunima Singh successfully defended her dissertation “Computational Modeling Of Glycosaminoglycans And Their Interactions With Proteins”.
Congratulations Dr. Singh!
Anita Nivedha defended her dissertation “Consideration of Glycosidic Torsion Angle Preferences and CH/π Interactions In Protein-Carbohydrate Docking”.
Congratulations to Dr. Nivedha!
Fei Ji successfully defended his dissertation “Tools and Analysis for Protein Structure and Function”.
Congratulations to Dr. Ji!
The Institute of Bioinformatics hosted a symposium, Big Data Challenges in Life Sciences, at the Georgia Center on Oct. 12, 2015. Big Data experts from across the country presented during the day-long event, which was attended by 140 registrants from UGA and neighboring areas.
IOB would like to thank the sponsors of the event for helping to make it a successful and informative meeting.
Sponsors include:
UGA Provost, The Center for Molecular Medicine at UGA, the Department of Statistics, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Department of Computer Science, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center at UGA, and Waters, Inc.
Doctoral student Zheng Ruan has been awarded the Grimes Family Distinguished Fellowship in Natural Sciences. The Fellowship provides support to a student in Franklin College working on cancer research.
Congratulations Ruan!
Dr. Lawrence Shimkits and his lab have published research in Genes and Development. The soil bacterium research has identified a potential mechanism for neurodegenerative diseases.
More information available here.
