HEADLINES

May 21, 2008: MGEL welcomes 2008 Summer Interns Aerielle Booker, Erica Jackson, and Whitney Logan.  The research being conducted by these Tougaloo College juniors is funded by the Mississippi Functional Genomics Network.

May 19-21, 2008: MGELans Surya Saha, Xueyan Shan, and Daniel Peterson participate in the Delivering Values from Avian Genomics conference hosted by the Institute for Digital Biology at MS State.  Drs. Shan and Peterson, in collaboration with invited speaker David Ray (WVU)  present the results of their research on crocodilians.  Mr. Saha gives a talk on mining spatial proximity relationships among dispersed repeat sequences in the chicken genome.

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).

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