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

Student Awarded Competitive Research Grant

Shelton Griffith has been awarded a National Research Service Award by the Department of Health and Human Services at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH).

Mr. Griffith will use the award for his project, “Annotation and Comparative Genomic Analysis of Cryptosporidium baileyi”.

Student Awarded Competitive Research Grant

Shelton Griffith has been awarded a National Research Service Award by the Department of Health and Human Services at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH).

Mr. Griffith will use the award for his project, “Annotation and Comparative Genomic Analysis of Cryptosporidium baileyi”.

Dogwood Genome Project Involves IOB Faculty

Dr. Magdy Alabady, Dr. James Leebens-Mack, and Dr. CJ Tsai are IOB-affiliated faculty members who are working on a large genomic project funded by the National Science Foundation.  Along with other Southeastern universities, UGA is working to complete the first complete genome sequence for dogwoods, allowing for new varieties that are strong and beautiful.  For more information, please see the story here.

Xi Gu Awarded Research Grant

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!

Xi Gu Awarded Research Grant

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 working on creating stress- and disease-free trees

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 stress tolerance.  For more information, please see the article featured on UGA Today, which can be found here.

IOB Student publishes paper in Molecular Plant

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 paper, please go here.

Ahmad Al-Omari Successfully Defends Dissertation

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!