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Dr. Liliana Salvador, Infectious Diseases & Institute of Bioinformatics, Receives Award from Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have awarded a total of $1.25 million to 10 multidisciplinary teams of early career scientists — including Liliana Salvador, Infectious Diseases & Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia — in the first year of the Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic...

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IOB Faculty News | Alexander Bucksch, NSF Research News: Adapting plant roots to a hotter planet could help ease pressure on food supply

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Dr. Kannan: New UGA study maps the structural diversity of sugar building enzymes using AI

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 10:22am By:Alan Flurry Sugars in our bodies, and in nearly all living organisms, are synthesized and built by a large family of proteins called Glycosyltransferases (GTs) that adopt unique three-dimensional structures and folds to...

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UGA’s Art Edison is co-principal investigator of $40M NSF grant for NMR network

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Kannan receives $2M NIH MIRA award

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]  BIOLOGY | MARCH 16, 2021 By Alan Flurry (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski)   University of Georgia faculty member Natarajan Kannan is a recipient of a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigator Research Award, or MIRA, from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The MIRA award is intended to...

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Dr. Walter Lorenz joint publication: Fc γ receptor IIIa/CD16a processing correlates with the expression of glycan-related genes in human natural killer cells

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Glenn named new Institute of Bioinformatics Director

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]  CAMPUS NEWS | JANUARY 4, 2021 By Ashley Crain Travis Glenn, professor of environmental health science in the College of Public Health, has been appointed the new director of the university’s Institute of Bioinformatics. Taking over Jan. 1, Glenn said he is honored to...

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