News - Mississippi Genome Exploration Laboratory - MGEL - Daniel G. Peterson - Genomics, Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics

		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).
		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.
		January 15, 2008: Mississippi State University undergraduate and MGEL employee, Benjamin Bartlett, completes construction of a 32X BAC library for reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis). The library will be used in sequencing of the reniform nematode genome.
		January 12, 2008: MGEL's Daniel Peterson organizes and hosts the Evolution of Genome Size workshop at Plant & Animal Genome XVI. Speakers at the workshop are J. Spencer Johnston (Texas A&M), Vladimir Kapitonov (Genet. Inf. Res. Inst.), Cedric Feschotte (U. of Texas at Arlington), Jeffrey Demuth (U. of Texas at Arlington), and MGEL's own Surya Saha.
		December 18, 2007: The paper "An automated, high-throughput sequence read classification pipeline for preliminary genome characterization" by MGEL's Philippe Chouvarine, Surya Saha, and Daniel Peterson is published in Analytical Biochemistry (see Publications).
		November 6, 2007: MGEL's Daniel Peterson receives the 2007 Mississippi Agricultural & Forestry Extension Service (MAFES) "Grantsmanship Award."
		November 2007: MGEL begins construction of a BAC library for the Australian salt-water crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).
		October 1, 2007: MGEL welcomes visiting scientist Brian Avery of Westminster College (Salt Lake City, UT). Dr. Avery conducts research on brine shrimp (Artemia spp.), the only animals that live in the hypersaline waters of Utah's Great Salt Lake.
		August 2007: Former MGEL summer intern, LaShonda Robertson, begins graduate school at Mississippi State University. Ms Robertson is conducting research on animal development in the lab of MGEL collaborator Dr. Erdogan Memili. We at MGEL are very proud of LaShonda and are pleased that we will see her on a regular basis!
		July 1, 2007: The book Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants, Vol. 7, Forest Trees is now available. MGEL's Daniel Peterson is co-author on the chapter titled "The Pines."
		June 1, 2007: MGEL's Daniel Peterson is co-author on a Genome Research paper describing new techniques for analyzing the structure of human chromatin (see Dennis et al. 2007). The paper's first author, Jonathan Dennis, is one of the many wonderful visiting scientists that MGEL has hosted.
		May 16, 2007: Tougaloo College students Avis Simms, Erica McInnis, and Quiana Hunter start summer research internships at MGEL. Their research is funded by the Mississippi Functional Genomics Network and National Science Foundation award DBI-0421717.
		May 7, 2007: The first 730,752 clones of the NSF-funded loblolly pine BAC library are delivered to the Clemson University Genomics Institute (CUGI). CUGI will distribute the BAC library and associated products.
		May 6, 2007: MGEL welcomes Steve Raines, a visiting scientist from the University of Wisconsin!
		April 1, 2007: MGEL receives a Mississippi Corn Promotion Board award to explore molecular basis of aflatoxin resistance in maize.
		March 18-21, 2007: MGEL's Daniel Peterson participates in a Banbury Conference on conifer genomics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
		January 13, 2007: MGEL's Daniel Peterson organizes and emcee's the Plant & Animal Genome XV Reduced Representation Sequencing Workshop (RRSW). Speakers are Claude dePamphilis (Penn State), Jonathan Dennis (Harvard), John Fellers (USDA/Kansas State), Jeffrey Dean (UGA), and Patrick Schnable (Iowa State).
		November 30, 2006: Dipaloke Mukherjee will receive his master's degree on Dec. 8. He is the first student to graduate from MGEL. Congratulations, Deep, and best of luck in your future endeavors!
		Nov. 27 - Dec. 29, 2006: MGEL welcomes visiting scientist Florence Tran of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)! Ms. Tran is studying the genome of hybrid larch. Her graduate advisors are Sylvie Laliberté (UQAM) and John MacKay (Université Laval).
		October 11-25 2006: Dorman Hall, home of MGEL, is closed due to damage caused by Oct. 11 fire in the building's basement. Suspected arsonist is arrested three days later. Damage to MGEL storage area is considerable, but damage to fourth floor labs and offices is minor.
		September 13, 2006: MGEL welcomes visiting scientist Dr. Siddarame Gowda of the University of Florida!
		September 1, 2006: MGEL receives award from USDA-CSREES to study genome of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)
		August 18, 2006: A Science Technical Comment by John Bunge, Slava S. Epstein, and MGEL's Daniel G. Peterson suggests substantial error in a recent estimate of soil microbe diversity. Click here to read more.
		August 17, 2006: Peterson's Genomes & Genomics course reaches students at MS State satellite campuses via videoconferencing.
		June 9, 2006: MGEL welcomes visiting scientist Dr. Margaret Young! Dr. Young, an assistant professor at Elizabeth City State University, will be conducting pine genomics research at MGEL through a "Research Opportunity Award" supplement to MGEL's NSF award DBI-0421717.
		June 9, 2006: MGEL welcomes undergraduate summer interns Erin Reynolds (Tougaloo College), Travis Faulcon (Elizabeth City State University - ECSU), and Kaleena Greene (ECSU)! They will be working on isolating and sequencing important pine genes.
		April 2006: MGEL and collaborator John E. Carlson (Penn State) release over 100 Mbp of pine genomic DNA sequence through the "Accelerating Pine Genomics" website.
		March 10, 2006: MGEL's Daniel Peterson is principal investigator on "Community Sequencing Project" (CSP) proposal submitted to the DOE's Joint Genome Institute. The CSP proposal includes thirteen other U.S. pine genome researchers as co-PIs.
		February 14, 2006: MGEL's Supaphan Thummasuwan marries Randy Batten of Birmingham, AL. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Batten from all of us at MGEL!
		February 8, 2006: Daniel Peterson gives seminar at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) entitled "Battling Monster Genomes."
		January 30, 2006: MGEL's pine sequencing research is focus of GenomeWeb News article. Click here to read.
		January 14-18 2006: Philippe Chouvarine and Daniel Peterson present research findings at Plant & Animal Genome XIV, San Diego, CA.
		December 2005: MGEL/KS State study shows that Cot filtration produces > 14-fold gene enrichment in wheat; see new Genome article (Lamoureux et al. 2005) for details.
		November 2-5, 2005: MGEL 2005 Summer Intern LaShonda Robertson presents her NSF-sponsored (DBI-0421717) research at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Atlanta, GA.
		October 29, 2005: MGEL 2005 Summer Interns LaShonda Robertson and Annita Avery present the results of their summer research at Tougaloo College's Fall Student Research Forum.
		October 28, 2005: MGEL welcomes new undergraduate student worker Jill S. Nelson.
		October 17, 2005 - See our new webpage Northern Mississippi Fauna & Flora.
		October 17, 2005: Daniel Peterson organizes the 4th "Reduced-Representation Sequencing Workshop" (RRSW) for Plant & Animal Genome XIV (January 14-18, 2006). Scientists scheduled to speak at the RRSW are Claude dePamphilis (Penn State), Bob Ivarie (U. of GA), David Ray (WVU), and Daniel Peterson.
		August 30, 2005: Lindy Jane Peterson is born to Lynn and Daniel Peterson.
		August 28-30: Hurricane Katrina ravages the U.S. Gulf Coast. As the hurricane moves inland it travels directly over Starkville, MS (home of MS State and MGEL). Fortunately damage in Starkville is minimal. The same cannot be said for the southern portions of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. Our thoughts are with those (including friends and family) who have suffered significant losses due to this catastrophic storm.
		June 25-29, 2005: MGEL's Surya Saha presents a poster entitled "Advantages of Network-Based Approaches for the phylogenetic analysis of intragenomic repeat regions" at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology meeting (Detroit, MI).
		June 23, 2005: Daniel G. Peterson gives a seminar entitled "Attack of the Pine Clones" at the Loblolly Pine Genome Project III meeting (Raleigh, North Carolina).
		May 23, 2005: MGEL welcomes Tougaloo College summer interns LaShonda Robertson and Annita Avery (see Summer Interns)!
		May 13, 2005: MGEL's Daniel G. Peterson and Wenxuan Liu provide the DNA used in sorghum genome sequencing (see below).
		May 12, 2005: The Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) announces that it will sequence the genome of Sorghum bicolor in collaboration with "Community Sequencing Proposal" authors Andrew H. Paterson, John E. Bowers, Alan R. Gingle, C. Thomas Hash, Joachim Messing, Daniel Rokhsar, and MGEL's Daniel G. Peterson.
		March 2005: See Volume 1, Issue 1 of Mississippi Landmarks, the first magazine devoted to MS State's Division of Agriculture, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine (DAFVM). Note the photograph of MGEL's Zenaida Magbanua and Daniel Peterson on page 17 (click here to view photo).
		March 28: MGEL welcomes visitors/collaborators Matias Kirst and Allison Morse from the University of Florida.
		March 1, 2005: The Handbook of Plant Genome Mapping: Genetic and Physical Mapping (John Wiley & Sons) containing Daniel G. Peterson's chapter "Reduced representation strategies and their application to plant genomes" is published in the U.S. and Europe.
		January 15-19, 2005: Daniel G. Peterson co-organizes the Reduced-Representation Sequencing Workshop and gives a talk on gene-enrichment in wheat at the Plant & Animal Genome XIII meeting.
		January 3, 2005: MGEL involved in characterizing the repetitive DNA of chicken (see Wicker et al. 2005).
		November 11, 2004: Daniel G. Peterson (MGEL Director) is the recipient of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station's 2004 Grantmanship Award.
		November 1, 2004: MGEL welcomes new postdoctoral research associate Dr. Zenaida Magbanua. Dr. Magbanua will lead the lab's NSF-funded effort to generate and characterize a 10X BAC library for loblolly pine (see Personnel).
		September 23-24: Daniel Peterson attends NSF Plant Genome Program Awardees Meeting in Arlington, VA (click here to read the NSF Press Release about 2004 awardees)..
		September 1, 2004: The repetitive DNA landscape of the chicken genome is subject of new Genome Research article.
		August 2004: MGEL welcomes new database administrator, Philippe Chouvarine, and student workers, Daniel Bell and Kirby Nelson (see Personnel).
		July 19-21, 2004: The 2004 meeting of the NSF Comparative Grass Genomics Virtual Center is hosted by MGEL and Mississippi State University.
		July 15, 2004: MGEL's new NSF grant is topic of MAFES article (click here to read article).
		June 29, 2004: MGEL officially awarded a $1.6 million, 3-year grant from the NSF Plant Genome Program (DBI-0421717) to construct and characterize a 10X BAC library for loblolly pine and explore the pine genome using CBCS and FISH (see Grants).
		June 25-26, 2004: MGEL's pending NSF award is "hot topic" at the 2004 meeting of the Loblolly Pine Genome Project (Jekyll Island, Georgia).
		Summer 2004: MGEL and Mississippi State University to host 2004 annual meeting/review of the NSF Comparative Grass Genomics Virtual Center.
		April 2004: Angiosperm genome evolution topic of Current Opinion in Biotechnology article.
		Feb. 7-21: Daniel Peterson participates in NSF Pan-American Studies Institute (PASI) on bioinformatics in Montevideo, Uruguay.
		January 2004: Daniel Peterson is co-organizer of "Reduced Representation Sequencing: Methods and Applications" workshop at PAGXII.
		January 2004: MGEL receives intramural grant to initiate CBCS research in loblolly pine (see Grants).
		December 2003: Review paper on cereal genomes published in Current Opinion in Genetics and Development.
		October 2003: Dr. Daniel Peterson gives invited seminar at the National Citrus Genomics Workshop.
		September 9, 2003: Genome sequencing pioneers J. Craig Venter & Claire Fraser visit MS State.
		September 2003: MGEL receives a grant to develop tools for marker-aided selection in pine (see Grants)
		August 2003: MGEL welcomes new Ph.D. students Dipaloke Mukherjee, Fahmida Shireen, Supaphan Thummasuwan, and Surya Saha (see Personnel).
		August 2003: MGEL thanks its wonderful summer interns, Breonica Carter and Anna-Gay Nelson (see 2003 Interns).
		July 2003: Dr. Wenxuan Liu leads cytomolecular mapping efforts in sorghum.
		2002-2003: Cot-Based Cloning & Sequencing (CBCS), an invention of MGEL's Daniel Peterson & UGA's Andrew Paterson, makes national and international news (see MGEL in the News).