IOB Academic News & Events | week of MAR 5th, 2020
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Listing of news from the Institute of Bioinformatics at University of Georgia
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Name: Michael Francis Year: Third-year PhD Major: Bioinformatics
Name: Sohyun Bang Year: First-year PhD Major: Integrated Life Sciences
Submission: The Music of Life – Musical Composition
Prize: $350
Commentary: In their entry “Music of Life”, Michael Francis and Sohyun Bang take the code of living things and re-codify it as musical notation. That is, they turn a DNA sequence into a song. Using the Python programming language and music production software Ableton Live, Michael and Sohyun transform the sterile string of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts (letters that represent the nucleotides that make up DNA) into an auditory experience reminiscent of the compositions of the 1960s foremost minimalist Steve Reich. Our judges were delighted by their playful artistic choices, like extracting the DNA sequence from AVPR1A, the gene associated with musical ability. To complement the song, the entrants offer another video wherein they explain their creative process, which could serve as a helpful starting point for other researchers who are interested in sonifying their own data. Written by contest judge Ariel Ackerly
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Dr. Kannan receives new NIH funding to develop cutting edge informatics tools for mining the druggable genome. His group will develop a data analytics framework for mining understudied “dark” kinases in collaboration with Dr. Kochut (CS, UGA).
Brigitte Hofmeister successfully defended her dissertation, “Stability of trans-generational and intra-organismal epiallele inheritance in plants” on July 15, 2019.
Congratulations Dr. Hofmeister!
PhD Students Ruijie Xu and Lambodhar Damodaran have been awarded Interdisciplinary Disease Ecology Across Scales (IDEAS) Fellowships which will fund their research beginning in August 2020. Congratulations Ruijie and Lambo! http://ideas.ecology.uga.edu/application/
PhD students Ruijie Xu and Jiani Chen have been awarded scholarships to attend the 2019 Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics at the University of Washington from July 10-18. Congratulations Rachel and Jiani! https://www.biostat.washington.edu/suminst/sisg
PhD student Dave Montgomery has been accepted into the Glycoscience Training Program at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center. Congratulations Dave! http://glycomics.ccrc.uga.edu/gtp/
Please alert the IOB office via EMAIL of any scheduling conflicts! Notification deadline is 3PM, TOMORROW, June 26th.
Please mark your calendar for the next IOB Symposium on Friday, March 20th, 2020! Speaker nominations can be forwarded to the IOB via email to iobadmin@uga.edu.
Location: UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel.