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Listing of news from the Institute of Bioinformatics at University of Georgia

Recent Graduates Find Job Placement

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 College (Deli Liu), and MD Anderson (Yulun Chiu).

Wellcome Trusts Funds Collaborative Award

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 for Kissinger Research Group at UGA.

IOB Student Lexing Ji Publishes Paper

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 Publishes Paper

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 Publishes Paper

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 and her lab.

You can find the paper here.

IOB Student Receives Competitive Award

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 the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Congratulations to Elizabeth!

IOB Adjunct Faculty Member Edits Plant DNA

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 genus Populus — a group of deciduous trees. For more information, please see the article published on UGA today. The article can be found here.

IOB Student Chi Zhang Publishes Paper

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.

IOB Adjunct Faculty Receives Pew Award

Dr. Bob Schmitz, adjunct faculty in the Institute of Bioinformatics, has been named a Pew scholar by the Pew Charitable Trusts. This prestigious award goes to researchers at the Assistant Professor level and comes with flexible funding for the next four years.

For more information, please see the story on UGA Today.