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2 unusual facts about Genomics


Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences

Classes are offered in Summer and Fall and course topics range from Microbial Oceanography: The Biogeochemistry, Ecology and Genomics of Oceanic Microbial Ecosystems, to Marine Invertebrate Zoology and Coral Reef Ecology.

MITES

Genomics - Students research DNA and genetic diseases at the Broad Institute, where one third of the human genome was sequenced.


Agilent Technologies

Agilent announced it would increase its life sciences engagement through the acquisition of Halo Genomics, based in Uppsala, Sweden, which was involved in next-generation sequencing technology development.

Alexey Kondrashov

He founded the laboratory of evolutionary genomics in the College of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The Carl J. Shapiro Science Center complex, which opened in January 2009, is a five-story teaching and research-laboratory building which contains modern teaching and research spaces for biochemistry, biology, chemistry, and genomics.

Denis Duboule

He earned his PhD in Biology in 1984 and is currently Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics at the EPFL and at the Department of Genetics and Evolution of the University of Geneva.

Enrique Norten

Construction is underway for the Chopo Museum (Mexico City); the National Laboratory of Genomics (Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico); Cassa Hotel & Residences at 45th Street (New York, NY); Hi Line Hotel (New York, NY); 580 Carroll Street Residential Building (Brookly, NY); the 1.3 million square feet (121,000 m2) Clinton Park (New York, NY); and the recently completed 1 York Tribeca Residential Building (New York, NY).

Eric Schadt

In 1999, after becoming acquainted with Stephen Friend, he was hired as chief scientist at Rosetta Inpharmatics, a startup biotech company focused on the generation and analysis of high-dimensional functional genomics data.

Genomic Medicine Institute

It is located in the Center for Genomics Research Building in the Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.

George Casella

His contributions focused on the area of statistics including Monte Carlo methods, model selection, and genomic analysis.

IGB

Institute for Genomic Biology, a genomics research facility at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign

Innogen Institute

The Innogen Institute is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Sciences and the Open University that explores the social and economic impact of innovation in the life sciences and genomics.

Matt Wood

Dr. Wood continues to be involved in next-generation sequencing, and the clinical impacts of genomics, in his role at Amazon Web Services.

MGED

The FGED Society, formerly known as the MGED Society, a genomics research data sharing organization.

Michael D. Mehta

He has received numerous awards such as Chief Scientist Distinguished Lecturer for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Science, Technology, Advancement of Science, Health Canada (2007), The Saskatchewan Centennial Medal (2006), and Agriculture Genomics Award, Genome Canada (2003).

Michel A. J. Georges

Michel A. J. Georges was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2007 along with Ronald L. Phillips of the University of Liège "for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences".

Nicolai Hartmann

His early work in the philosophy of biology has been cited in modern discussions of genomics and cloning, and his views on consciousness and free will are currently in vogue among contributors to the Journal of Consciousness Studies.

Penn Genome Frontiers Institute

The Penn Genome Frontiers Institute, previously known as the Penn Genomics Institute, was established in January 2001 to provide a focus for all aspects of and participants in the genomics community at University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Wistar Institute.

Rajeev Kumar Varshney

Rajeev Varshney has over 10 years research experience in the area of plant genomics and crop biotechnology.

Ronald L. Phillips

In 2006/7, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture along with Michel A. J. Georges of the University of Liège "for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences".

Swami Manohar

He co-founded Strand Life Sciences (formerly Strand Genomics), and String Labs, the first academic incubating company in India.


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