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Towards the $1,000 Genome: "Hot Topic" Added to TIGR Genome Conference
September 23, 2002 Rockville, MD - September 23, 2002 -- The potential for new genome sequencing technologies will be the focus of a newly added "hot topic" panel discussion - "The Future of Sequencing: Advancing Towards the $1,000 Genome" - that will be part of the opening plenary session of the 14th International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference (GSAC 14), to be held in Boston from October 2-5, 2002. The panel will explore new DNA sequencing technologies that have the...
Scientists Decipher Genetic Code of Malaria Parasite
October 2, 2002 Rockville, MD - In a landmark contribution to the age-old battle against malaria, a consortium of scientists including The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) announced today that they have deciphered the complex genetic code of the parasite that causes the deadliest form of the disease. Malaria is one of the world's most devastating infectious diseases, killing more than a million people a year in developing nations. The scientific paper analyzing the genome of that...
Strausberg, Leading Genomic Scientist, to Become TIGR's V.P. for Research
April 24, 2003 Rockville, MD - Genomics innovator Robert L. Strausberg, who directs the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Genomics Office, has been named as Vice President for Research at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). Strausberg has played an important role in the development of innovative tools and technologies for genome research, both at the NCI - where he helped devise new ways to collect and apply genomic information that is important to cancer research - and...
Genomics Conference Expands Focus To New Frontiers of Research
September 12, 2003 Rockville, MD - The expansion of the genomics revolution into medicine, the environment, systems biology and an array of other scientific fields will dominate discussions among leading researchers at the 15th International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference. GSAC 15, which is organized by The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), will be held in Savannah, GA, from September 21-24. The conference will feature presentations by some of the world's...
TIGR, NIAID Sign $65 Million Microbial Sequencing Contract
October 2, 2003 Rockville, MD - The world's leading center for microbial genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), has signed a five-year, $65 million contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, to sequence and analyze the genomes of pathogenic microbes and invertebrate vectors of infectious diseases for the wider scientific community. Under the contract, TIGR will sequence dozens of genomes per...
16TH International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference Features NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, Biologist E.O. Wilson and other Eminent Scientists
September 20, 2004 Rockville, MD — In the three years since the first analysis and publication of the human genome, the number of sequenced genomes from all branches of life has skyrocketed, the cost to do sequencing has decreased, and the application of genomic knowledge into and its impact on areas such as medicine and health have expanded exponentially. For the past 16 years the International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference (GSAC), organized by The Institute for Genomic...
TIGR President Wins ASM's Promega Biotechnology Research Award
June 6, 2005 TIGR President and Director Claire M. Fraser, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2005 Promega Biotechnology Research Award at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the nation's largest life sciences society. The award honors Fraser for her "outstanding contributions to the application of biotechnology through fundamental microbiological research and development." In accepting the award Monday, Fraser delivered a lecture at the ASM's 105th General Meeting...
U.S. / African Project Deciphers Deadly Parasite Genome
June 30, 2005 Rockville, MD, and Nairobi, Kenya — An innovative North-South research collaboration has culminated in a study published in this week's Science that provides molecular clues to help develop new ways to treat or prevent East Coast fever. The disease, which kills a million cattle a year in East and Central Africa, has had a devastating impact on rural areas — such as Maasai tribal communities in Kenya — where cattle play a crucial role in the local society and...
Genomics-Based Vaccine Could Prevent Deadly Cattle Disease
February 13, 2006 Every year, East Coast fever destroys the small farmer's dream of escaping poverty in Africa. Killing more than a million cattle and costing some $200 million annually, this tick-borne disease rages across a dozen countries in eastern and central Africa. Now, an international team of scientists has taken the first major step toward a vaccine to prevent East Coast fever. Their work, published in the February 13-17 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National...
Surprising Symbiosis: Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Eats With Friends
June 5, 2006 Like a celebrity living on mineral water, the glassy-winged sharpshooter consumes only the dilute sap of woody plants — including grapevines in California , which is feverishly working to prevent the insect's flight into prized vineyards. Now, in a surprising study published in the June 6 issue of Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS Biology), researchers at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), the University of Arizona , and their colleagues have discovered...