Tag: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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Nine UGA faculty members named 2022-2023 Women’s Leadership Fellows
The participants will attend monthly sessions to learn from senior administrators on campus as well…
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Hart elected 2022 ASBMB Fellow
Gerald Hart is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in drug discovery at the University…
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Three UGA professors elected NAI Senior Members
UGA faculty members Keshav Das, Michael Adang and Vladimir Popik earn the honor.
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University of Georgia professor elected a 2022 IEEE Fellow
Ying Xu is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in…
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Seven Ph.D. students named 2021 ARCS Scholars
They will receive $8,000 each for the next three years to support their dissertation research.
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Cassera named summer 2021 Innovation Fellow
Applications for the 2021 fall cohort are now open. The deadline to apply is Aug.…
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2021 Josiah Meigs Teaching Professors
Five faculty members were named Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professors for 2021. The professorship is the…
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2021 Research Awards
Seventeen faculty were awarded Research Awards for 2021.
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Five faculty members named Meigs Professors for teaching excellence
The Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship is UGA’s highest teaching honor.
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Kannan receives $2M NIH MIRA award
Kannan will use the award to map relationships connecting sequence and function in gene families.
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Policy change makes NIH fellowships even sweeter for 3 postdocs
Sean Beckwith, Brent Simpson and Xiaoyun Wang received the NIH’s Ruth L. Kirchstein Postdoctoral Individual…
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Three Ph.D. candidates named 2020 ARCS Scholars
Three UGA doctoral students have been named 2020 ARCS Scholars by the Office of Research.…
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UGA-led portal holds key to unlocking glycoscience
The GlyGen informatics portal is funded by a $10 million NIH grant.
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Research shows that individual cells have ‘clocks’
Further research could address conditions like dementia and Alzheimer’s.
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Researchers receive $2M NIH instrumentation grant
The National Institutes of Health has awarded University of Georgia researchers $1.956 million for a…
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UGA and UConn Health researchers discover roles and teamwork of CRISPR-Cas proteins
Recently published research from the University of Georgia and UConn Health provides new insight about…
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Researchers harness metabolism to reverse aggressiveness in leukemia
University of Georgia researchers, with colleagues from the University of Tokyo, have identified a new…
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Researchers receive Moore Foundation grant to study global ocean microbiome
A $1.3 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will allow UGA researchers…
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UGA researchers discover how trypanosome parasites communicate with each other
While scientists have known for years that African trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness, they’ve been left…
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UGA iGEM team wins gold at international synthetic biology competition
The University of Georgia’s iGEM—International Genetically Engineered Machine—team won a gold medal and was runner-up…
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Karishma Sriram
Karishma Sriram, a senior majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, says she is “beyond blessed”…
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Noted NMR, metabolomics researcher Art Edison named GRA Eminent Scholar at UGA
One of the leading experts on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a powerful non-invasive technology used…
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UGA researchers create fast-growing trees that are easier to turn into fuel
Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered that manipulation of a specific gene in…
