CBCB news from the recent past
December 5, 2006.
UMd-led team discovers
gene mutation for
lactose tolerance in Africans. A discovery by an
international team led by University of Maryland researcher Sarah
Tishkoff
identifies, for the first time, genetic mutations in East Africans that
are associated with the ability to digest milk as adults.
...press
release
Link
to
Nature article
Aug. 24, 2006.
CBCB researchers join
international
consortium calling for sharing of avian influenza data.
In
a letter published today in the journal Nature, over 70 leading
scientists from 34 countries announced a new collaboration dedicated to
the goal of better understanding the spread and evolutioon of the
influenza virus.
...press
release
Link
to Nature letter and list
of signatories
Jun.
1, 2006.
Large scale
sequencing of human
gut microbes.
In a study published today in the journal Science,
researchers describe the first large scale sequencing effort
aimed at characterizing the combined genomes of all bacteria that live
in the human gut. The team that performed this study includes
scientists
from the CBCB, TIGR, SUNY Buffalo, Stanford University and
Washington University in St. Louis....press
release
Link
to Science paper
Dec. 21, 2005.
Research teams sequence
three fungus genomes.
A consortium of scientists at TIGR, the Broad Institute, the Sanger
Institute, and 25 other academic centers including CBCB report in the
journal Nature on the genomes of three closely related fungi, including
Aspergillus fumigatus, a significant human pathogen.
...press
release
(TIGR)
Link
to Nature paper
October 5, 2005.
First-ever large-scale
sequencing of
influenza virus genome. In a study published
online today
in the journal Nature,
scientists from CBCB, TIGR, and NIH describe 209 complete flu genomes
and the surprising genetic diversity found in the virus population
Link
to Nature
paper
Flu project page at TIGR
July 26, 2005. Analysis of influenza genomes
reveals
genetic changes that caused virulent flu outbreak in 2003-2004 season.
In a report in PLoS Biology, scientists report on their analysis of the
first set of genomes from the Influenza Genome Sequencing Project.
...press
release
Link
to PLoS Biology
paper
[PDF version
(4.0Mb)]
July 14, 2005. Scientists decode the genomes of
three
major disease-causing parasites.
In a special issue of the journal Science, an international
collaboration of scientists reports on the genomes of parasites that
infect tens of millions of people worldwide, causing African sleeping
sickness, Chagas disease, and Leishmaniasis. The findings are published
in four papers this week; the co-authors include four members of CBCB.
Link to Science special
issue
Text
of
paper comparing the Trypanosomatid genomes. [Abstract]
Link
to Trypanosoma cruzi
genome
paper
Link
to Trypanosoma brucei
genome
paper
July
1, 2005. In a study
published in the journal Science, a joint U.S./African
team deciphers the genome of Theileria parva, the parasite
that causes East Coast Fever. ...press release
February 2005. CBCB scientists
discover three new species of the Wolbachia bacterium by
searching through fruit fly sequence data. The study appears
in the
open-access journal Genome Biology. ...press release
CBCB launches new pathogen detection project with
$2.1 million in funding (in year 1; $7.1 million for 3 years) from
HSARPA. The project is a collaboration
among CBCB, The Institute
for Genomic
Research (TIGR), and Canon US
Life Sciences.
Dr.
Steven Salzberg has joined
the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology as
Director
effective July 2005.
|
|
