Congratulations to Dr. Liang Liu for receiving an NSF Grant for his project entitled "Collaborative Research: Developing a Probabilistic Model for Gene Family Evolution."...
Professor will use NSF Award to trace origin of a protein family. To read more about the NSF award, click HERE for details. Dr. Natarajan Kannan is a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar, an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Franklin College of Arts...
IOB is thrilled to announce that Dr. Juan Gutierrez will join IOB and the Department of Mathematics on August 10, 2012 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Gutierrez's research explores mathematical and computational models that connect genes to ecology. He also specializes in data management of very...
Celine Hong, PhD candidate in the Institute of Bioinformatics, uses innovative ideas and cutting-edge computational methods to address biological problems related to cancer. One of the main topics in Hong’s research is to find a way to enhance cancer diagnosis by identifying biomarkers that can...
The poster award winners went to Eric Talevich of Dr. Natarajan Kannan's lab and Yan Li of Dr. Andeas Handel's lab. Congratulations to all!...
The winner of the Ying Xu Outstanding Student Paper Award went to Yupeng Wang of Dr. Andrew Paterson's lab. Congratulations Yupeng!...
Congratulations to Dr. Natarajan Kannan for winning the NSF Career Award for his project entitled "Unraveling the Design Principles of Protein Kinases using an Evolutionary Systems Approach."...
The 17th Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics will be held at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington on July 9 - 27, 2012. See http://researchweb8.wpengine.com/iob/wp-content/uploads/sites/47/2012/03/2012SISGBrochure.pdf for detailed information....
Congratulations to Drs. Anuj Srivastava and Yupeng Wang in successfully defending their PhD dissertation. Dr. Srivastava will be joining the Jackson Laboratory as a Senior Research Scientist. Dr. Wang will continue his current work at the Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory as a postdoctoral research fellow....
IOB graduate student Eric Talevich, Biochemistry undergraduate Amar Mirza and IOB Assistant Professor Natarajan Kannan have published a research article in BMC Evolutionary Biology titled: "Structural and Evolutionary Divergence of Eukaryotic Protein Kinases in Apicomplexa". The study examines a medically important protein superfamily as it...