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Registering for BCB 593 (1-11-05 ts)
BCB 593 is Now Open--If you still want to register for BCB 593, but were unable to do so, please try again as more seats have been added. The course begins in February. Watch your email !

BCB 593 begins February 9 (1-12-05 ts)
BCB593 begins February 9. The class will take place in Science I, room 102.

Reminders for BCB/IGERT/MGET Students (1-04-05 ts)
Here are a few brief information items for graduate students:

The updated version of the BCB Graduate Student Handbook is now on the web here.

First Thursday will be on the second Thursday in January (January 13), since school is not in session until next week!!! Please email Trish by Tuesday, Jan. 11th to attend this evening meal in 1102 Molecular Biology Building.

A brief reminder that BCB majors should register for research credits under your major professor's BCB 699 research reference number. A list of BCB 699 reference numbers is located here.

Rotation #3 for new students begins January 24. If you have not already done so, BCB students should let Trish Stauble know who they will be rotating with and IGERT/MGET students should let Kathy Wiederin know.

Final lab decisions for new PhD Graduate Students are due April 1 to the BCB program office. To review the lab assignment process, please see the Graduate Student Handbook.

Recent Grants received by BCB Faculty (1-04-05 ts)
W. Allen Miller, Pl Path, and Bryony Bonning, Ent, Aphid Resistance in Plants Mediated by Luteovirus Structural Proteins and an Intrahemocoelic Toxin from the USDA, $350,000.

Eve Wurtele, GDCB, and Basil Nikolau, BBMB, Advanced Biorefinery Feedstocks from Metabolix, Inc., $240,000.

Congratulations to our Graduates!! (1-3-05 ts)
In Summer 2004, three BCB students graduated. Tyra Dunn, a Master's student with Dr. Gu, finished her BCB degree and is continuing her study for a Ph.D. under Dr. Greenlee. LaRon Hughes completed his Master's degree in BCB with Dr. Dorman and will continue his PhD studies in BCB with Dr. Berleant. Zhongqi Zhang graduated with a PhD Co-major in Statistics and BCB under the direction of Drs. Gu and Koehler.

Three BCB students also graduated in Fall 2004. Haining Lin, a student of Drs. Huang and Voytas, graduated with a Master's degree. Junli Ji, an M.S. student with Dr. Bhattacharyya, also finished her degree. Shiquan Wu, a PhD student of Drs. Gu and Wu, finished his degree this fall and will continue his research work as a research associate with Dr. Gu. His Research Seminar was presented November 8, 2004.

Congratulations to all !!

January Birthdays (01/01/05 ts; edited 1-5-07 kmw)
Happy Birthday to all our January celebrants:

Tammy BENSON
Feng CUI
Tyra DUNN
Feihong WU
Liang YE

Our (Belated!) Best Wishes (01-04-05 kmw)
Best wishes to Erin Boote Jones (MGET, Chem E major/rotating) and Joel Jones, who were wed September 24 at Reiman Gardens. Joel is the manager of Mayhem Comics and Games here in Ames. Congratulations, Erin and Joel!

Congratulations to new parents Shannon Schlueter (BCB/IGERT, GDCB, Brendel/Shoemaker) and Jessica (IG major, Shoemaker lab) on the birth of their son Harmon Bruce on August 7. Our best wishes to Shannon, Jessica and Harmon. We hope Harmon is thriving and Shannon and Jessica are getting some sleep!

Alumni News (01/01/05 ts)
Yingchun Wang, a BCB alumni who graduated in Fall, 2003 sent holiday greetings and upon request described his current research in the Dept. of Immunology at Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA: "My research here is to use LC-MS/MS to identify and functionally study the phosphotyrosine proteome in migratory cells under the stimulation of chemokine, such as metastatic human breast cancer cells. I have already made a big progress by identifying several hundreds of tyrosine phosphorylated proteins. Our eventual goal is to understand how cells can migrate ( or how tumor cells can be metastatic). From the coming January, my research will be funded by the Cell Migration Consortium, I will be more relaxed than this year without writing proposals asking for money. My wife just finished her volunteer research in our lab and is looking for a job, she has already got some job interviews around San Diego area. It seems that the life is getting better and better for us, but I still miss the days I had in Ames!"

Haining Lin, a Fall 2004 graduate, has taken a position with The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, MD. TIGR is a not-for-profit research institute whose primary research interests are in structural, functional and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products from a wide variety of organisms including viruses, eubacteria (both pathogens and non-pathogens, archaea (the so-called third domain of life), and eukaryotes (plants, animals, fungi and protists such as the malarial parasite).

Temperature Matters (1-04-05 ts)
Nicole Valenzuela, a participating BCB faculty member from EEOB, is an editor of the recent Smithsonian publication, Temperature-dependent Sex Determination in Vertebrates, a book which compiles, analyzes and integrates existing information about this field. The volume brings together the diversity of issues related to this sex-determining mechanism and includes new data not published elsewhere. Dr. Valenzuela is an evolutionary ecologist specializing in sex determination.

New at the ISU Library for BCB (1-04-05 ts)
The ISU Parks Library has several new acquisitions related to BCB. Their newest reference book is entitled, Dictionary of Bioinformatics And Computational Biology / edited by John M. Hancock, Marketa J. Zvelebil. REFERENCE Collection QH324.2 .D53 2004.

New books in BCB related topics recently added to the Library's collection include:

Bioinformatics in the post-genomic era : genome, transcriptome, proteome and information-based medicine / Jeff Augen. PARKS General Collection QH324.2 A88x 2004.

Bioinformatics : a practical guide to the analysis of genes and proteins / edited by Andreas D. Baxevanis, B.F. Francis Ouellette. PARKS General Collection QH324.2 .B547 2005.

The Internet for cell and molecular biologists / edited by Andrea Cabibbo, Richard P. Grant, Manuela Helmer-Citterich. PARKS General Collection QH324.2 I567 2004.

Bioinformatics, biocomputing and Perl : an introduction to bioinformatics computing skills and practice / Michael Moorhouse, Paul Barry. PARKS General Collection QH324.2 M667 2004.

Data mining in bioinformatics / Jason T.L. Wang ... [et al.]. PARKS General Collection QH324.2 D35 2005.

New Bioinformatics Website

BioMolecules
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/index.jsp?id=c812e5e3-2f94-4af8-a669-52c008c370d8
From the University of Washington, a terrific resource for bioinformatics.

Spring Course Possibilities (1-04-05 ts)
The BCB Course site has been updated with Spring 2005 class information. A number of courses have been advertised to you through email. Here is a compilation of most of these course descriptions. If you are considering registering for any of them, please be sure to speak with your major professors to make sure they fit into your course of study for your degree program.

1. Quantitative Biology: A Survey of Advanced Biostatistics; Instructor: Dean Adams.

2. STAT 416X/516X: Statistical Design and Analysis of Microarray Experiments; Instructor: Dan Nettleton; 3 credits TR 12:40-2; Prereqs: STAT 401 for 416X and STAT 500 for 516X.

3. MATH 552: Enumerative Combinatorics and Ordered Sets, MWF 12:10-1:00, Instructor: Alexander Burstein.

4. Horticulture 537: Environmental Stress Physiology, 3 credits, TR 12:40 - 2; Instructor: Coralie Lashbrook.

5. Com S 573, Machine Learning; 3 credits; MWF 10; Instructor: Vasant Honavar.

ISU Job/RA Possibility (1-04-05 ts)
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AND PHD STUDENT POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

Two positions (postdoctoral research associate and Ph.D. student) are available immediately to join a multi-disciplinary team of researchers working in functional genomics in pigs. This research is oriented toward both applied genetics and in using the pig as a model for human biology. Using an integrated transcriptional profiling and bioinformatics approach, this team has significant USDA support, across multiple projects, to identify genes showing differential expression in several contrasting biological states, including changes due to disease, stages of reproduction, and differences in feed intake. Microarray data and novel clustering tools will be used to better understand relevant biological pathways using structural and functional data across multiple species.

Laboratory facilities for molecular biology and bioinformatics are well-equipped. University instrumentation are excellent, and include a microarray facility and a Affymetrix GeneChip" facility.

For the postdoctoral research associate, a PhD in genetics or molecular biology and experience with RNA isolation and analysis is required; training in microarray hybridizations and/or statistics/bioinformatics is a plus. For both positions, excellent communication skills and an interest in functional and comparative genomics is important, as these positions are central to the success of this collaborative effort. Competitive salary/stipend and benefits are available and will be commensurate with experience.

Send CV and contact information for three references to: Dr. Chris Tuggle, Interdepartmental Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Department of Animal Science, 2255 Kildee Hall Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3150. Telephone: 515-294-4252; Fax: 515-294-2401; Email: cktuggle@iastate.edu.

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