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Festival of Science The UM School of Medicine launched a new initiative celebrating the scope of scientific discoveries that impact human health -- the vision of Dr. E. Albert Reece, Dean of the School of Medicine.
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Genomics Resource Center The Genomics Resource Center (GRC) is a high-throughput laboratory and data analysis group supporting the scientific programs of IGS and its collaborators.
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CHIB The Center for Health-Related Informatics & BioImaging will apply advanced computing to the analysis of datasets at the molecular, genetic and cellular levels.
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Bioinformatics Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to biological data.
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Human Genomics Discovering how proteins work is essential to understanding disease mechanisms.
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Infectious Diseases The tools to examine the complete genetic "roadmap" of pathogens.
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Metagenomics We are not alone! Trillions of microbes (the human microbiota) reside on and in the human body.
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Population & Evolutionary Genomics Some of the most difficult diseases to treat are caused by eukaryotic pathogens.
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Current News
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April 2014
HMP DACC Releases New Collection of Data
Researchers with the Data Analysis and Coordination Center (DACC) for the NIH Human Microbiome Project (HMP) are releasing a significant amount of new sequence data....
April 2014
IGS Awarded FDA Contract to Expand Genome Sequence Database
IGS has been awarded a research program contract from the FDA to sequence, assemble and annotate a population of bacterial pathogens....
March 2014
"Are Antibiotics Making Us Fat?"
Interview with Dr. Fraser in Mother Jones magazine....
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Recent Publications
Semaphorin 5B is a repellent cue for sensory afferents projecting into the developing spinal cord., Development (Cambridge, England) 2014-04-09
Feasibility of self-collection of fecal specimens by randomly sampled women for health-related studies of the gut microbiome., BMC research notes 2014-04-01
Genome sequences of rhinovirus C isolates from wisconsin pediatric respiratory studies., Genome announcements 2014-03-27
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Twitter Feed
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usually no non-scientific posts but must add to Gabriel Garcia Marquez tributes - http://t.co/zp3ihLZ2sd via @Slate #100YearsofSolitudeWomen, fecal specimens & health of gut #microbiome http://t.co/IpGSjrvUGTIGS expands #genome & #bioinformatics workshops offered @UMBnews @UMMC @UMmedschool http://t.co/88u15iwzGq
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The Implications of Big Data and the Future of Healthcare
May 8, 2014
The Institute for Genome Sciences, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the Center for Health-related Informatics and Bioimaging (CHIB) and Leadership Maryland invite you to join us for an exciting morning of discovery as informatics experts highlight the implications of big data applications and the future of healthcare. Register online at Leadership Maryland.
View PDF for eventSecond Annual Frontiers in Genomics Lecture
May 15, 2014
Increasing evidence suggest an early life microbiome with long-conserved developmental functions. Over the past century, public health and medical activities have been disrupting these relationships. Using murine models, we show metabolic and immunologic consequences of such activities. Email to RSVP.
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