Listing of news from the Institute of Bioinformatics at University of Georgia
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.
Annie Kwon successfully defended her dissertation, “Tracing the evolution of the tyrosine kinome from sequence to function” on April 17, 2019.
Congratulations Dr. Kwon!
Dr. Lexiang Ji of Dr. Robert Schmitz’ lab earned this year’s Ying Xu Award for his paper, ” TET-mediated epimutagenesis of the Arabidopsisthaliana methylome “
