HEADLINES
June 25, 2009: Daniel Peterson
gives a talk at the
17th International Chromosome Conference in Boone, North Carolina.
June 17, 2009: MGEL's Surya Saha successfully defends his
Ph.D. dissertation on mining spatial relationships in genomic data.
Congratulations to (soon to be) Dr. Saha!
June 1, 2009: MGEL welcomes Melanie Hill,
Nisma Mujahid,
and Calla Kingery. Ms. Hill, a Tougaloo College
student, will be conducting
genomics research at MGEL throughout the summer (see
MGEL/Tougaloo Partnership). Ms.
Mujahid will be conducting pine genomics research under the supervision of
MGEL's Zenaida Magbanua. Ms. Kingery, who will be starting college at
Delta State University in the fall,
will be working with Ms. Hill, visiting scientist Lisa Kanizay (see below),
and MGEL's Xueyan Shan.
June 1, 2009: We welcome Lisa Kanizay, a graduate student from
Dr. Kelly Dawe's lab at the
University of Georgia. Ms. Kanizay is working with MGEL's Xueyan Shan to construct and screen a BAC library
for a Zea mays line containing Abnormal Chromosome 10 (Ab10).
May 15, 2009: A paper describing an improved means
of analyzing Cot curve data is published in
Analytical Biochemistry.
MGEL's Philippe Chouvarine and Daniel Peterson are co-authors (see
Publications).
May 1, 2009: MGEL's Daniel Peterson is named Associate Director of MS
State's Life Sciences & Biotechnology Institute
(LSBI). Peterson will lead
the LSBI's nucleic acids research initiatives/programs.
February 5, 2009: A paper presenting novel data on genome
evolution in loblolly pine is published in
PLoS ONE. MGEL's
Daniel Peterson and Zenaida Magbanua are co-authors (see
Publications).
January 28, 2009: The Sorghum bicolor genome sequence is published in
Nature. MGEL's
Daniel Peterson is a co-author (see Publications).
...more news!






