Fei Ji Successfully Defends Dissertation
Fei Ji successfully defended his dissertation “Tools and Analysis for Protein Structure and Function”.
Congratulations to Dr. Ji!
IOB Hosts Successful Symposium
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.
Student Receives Graduate Fellowship
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!
Shimkits Lab Publishes Research
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.
NIH 3-year Grant Awarded
Liming Cai, with co-PIs Russell Malmberg and Cory Momany, has been awarded a 3-year NIH (R01) grant to develop graph algorithms for ncRNA 3D structure prediction, as a part of the NSF-DMS/NIH-NIGMS joint Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences.
IOB Faculty Receives Grant
Dr. Natarajan Kannan has been awarded a 5 year NIH award to identify causative disease mutations in signaling proteins.
Congratulations!!
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 Director Accepts Position as Editor
IOB Director Dr. Jessica Kissinger has joined Microbial Genomics as an Editor. To read the journal, please visit http://mgen.sgmjournals.org.
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.