IOB student Lexiang Ji has published in PNAS . The article is titled "On the origin and evolutionary consequences of gene body DNA methylation." Dr. Bob Schmitz is the corresponding author....
Dr. Art Edison has been given a Fulbright Specialist Fellowship. Dr. Edison will teach NMR and metabolomics to students in Ecuador, spending significant time in country to teach, develop new collaborations, and recruit graduate students to the University of Georgia....
IOB Graduate Coordinator Dr. Jonathan Arnold invites all to visit the Georgia Center Hotel Lobby on Friday, July 22 for the REU Poster Session. Over 60 participants from around the country will present their posters from 9:00 to 11:00AM....
Norman Hassell successfully defended is thesis "Patterns and dynamics of pelagic stream microbial community assembly" Congratulations!...
Daniel McSkimming successfully defended his dissertation "Rational characterization of cancer variants in the eukaryotic protein kinase domain". Congratulations Dr. McSkimming!!...
Dr. Robert J. Woods has received significant funding from the National Institutes of Health. The U01 grant has been awarded to develop a suite of web-based tools to enable non-specialists to model glycoconjugates and glycan-protein interations. Congratulations Dr. Woods!...
Bioinformatics doctoral student Lexiang Ji is first co-author of a paper recently published in G3 - Genes Genomes Genetics. The paper is a result of collaboration with Dr. Zack Lewis, Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UGA. Ji's paper, "Histone H1 limits DNA methylation in Neurospora crassa"...
Dr. Juan Gutierrez and Dr. Jessica Kissinger are two of 40 established investigators involved in the THoR's HAMMER project, which was recently funded through a $6.4 million contract. The Defense Advances Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) are supporting the project which...
Dr. Jonathan Arnold, who oversees the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program through the Department of Genetics, has placed several REU participants with IOB faculty. The National Science Foundation program promotes active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by...
Dr. Jonathan Arnold, Graduate Coordinator of the Institute of Bioinformatics, and Professor of Genetics has introduced the UGA community to a highly advance in innovative technological teaching tool. Three panels of iWall have been installed in a classroom in the Life Sciences Building. Dr. Arnold is...