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IOB Faculty working on creating stress- and disease-free trees

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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 publishes paper in Molecular Plant

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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 Defends Dissertation

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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!...

Winners of the Ying Xu Outstanding Student Paper Award

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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....

IOB Student Ahmad Al-Omari published paper

Posted on Feb 16, 2015 in News by ovprweb 0 Comments

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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....

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. ...

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....

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...

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...

UGA, Emory collaborate to leverage strengths in infectious disease research

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IOB Faculty working on creating stress- and disease-free trees

IOB Student publishes paper in Molecular Plant

Ahmad Al-Omari Successfully Defends Dissertation

Winners of the Ying Xu Outstanding Student Paper Award

IOB Student Ahmad Al-Omari published paper

Two Articles Published by Bioinformatics Graduate Student

IOB Student publishes paper in Quantitative Biology

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

UGA, Emory collaborate to leverage strengths in infectious disease research

UGA, Emory collaborate to leverage strengths in infectious disease research

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