HEADLINES

April 23, 2008: A poster by MGEL's Surya Saha is awarded first place in the Physical Sciences category at the 6th Annual Graduate Student Association Research Symposium (Mississippi State University).

April 18, 2008: MGEL's Benjamin Bartlett gives a talk on his reniform nematode research at the Tougaloo College/Mississippi College Student Symposium. 

April 17, 2008: Daniel Peterson gives a talk entitled "MGEL: Battling Monster Genomes Since 2002" to Tougaloo College students.

March 12, 2008: Acclaimed cytogeneticist and MGEL collaborator Nurul Islam-Faridi visits MGEL/MS State.

February 2008: The papers "Empirical comparison of ab initio repeat finding programs" and "Computational approaches and tools used in identification of dispersed repetitive DNA sequences" are published in Nucleic Acids Research and Tropical Plant Biology, respectively.  Authors are MGELans Surya Saha, Zenaida Magbanua, and Daniel Peterson and MGEL collaborator Susan Bridges (see Publications).

February 2008: Congratulations to MGEL postdocs Xueyan Shan and Zenaida Magbanua for publishing peer-reviewed papers on research they conducted before joining the MGEL team.  In 2007 Dr. Magbanua published one paper on Aspergillus-resistance in maize (Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions) while Dr. Shan published three papers on QTL mapping/allelic diversity in wheat (two in Crop Science and one in the Journal of Cereal Science).

January 30, 2008: Back to BACs!  MGEL's loblolly pine BAC library, generated through NSF DBI-0421717, approaches 7X coverage (ca. 1.5 million individually-archived clones) making it the largest single BAC library ever constructed!  Meanwhile, a 6X BAC library for bald cypress, a distant relative of pine, is completed through USDA 2006-34506-17290.

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