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).

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