HEADLINES
July 14, 2009: A paper describing a crocodile BAC
library and its utilization is published in
BMC Genomics.
Authors include MGEL's Xueyan Shan and Daniel
Peterson and collaborators David Ray (MS State)
and John Bunge (Cornell University) - see
Publications.
July 8, 2009: MGEL welcomes Dr. Felix Guerrero of the
USDA-ARS's
Livestock Insects Research Laboratory (Kerrville, TX). Dr.
Guerrero, who has been collaborating with MGEL in a study of the cattle tick
genome (click here for project details), will spend a
week learning how to do Cot filtration.
July 1, 2009: Daniel Peterson is appointed to the Editorial
Board of
Analytical Biochemistry.
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).
...more news!






