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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 https://bilab.uga.edu/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 appears in the malaria pathogen and its evolutionary relatives.

Talevich E, Mirza A, Kannan N: Structural and evolutionary divergence of eukaryotic protein kinases  in Apicomplexa. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011, 11:321

Read more at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/321

IOB graduate students Anuj Srivastava, Wenchi Chou and Timothy I. Shaw participated in the competition. The publication is available here.

Genetics Associate Professor Jessica Kissinger is named as the second director of the Institute of Bioinformatics. She succeeds Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Professor and Eminent Scholar Ying Xu. The Institute was formed in 2004 by former Genetics Department Head Professor John McDonald.

Tim Shaw received the UGA-ARCS Foundation Student Award for his HIV RNA work. Congrats, Tim!