UNCC Bioinformatics Student Organization

Beijing Institute of Genomics building.
I got to spend the summer in China working here and it was awesome.

Researchers Turn Book Into DNA Code In the latest attempt to corral society's growing quantities of digital data, Harvard University researchers encoded an entire book into the genetic molecules of DNA, the basic building block of life, and then accurately read back the text.

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/08/but-why-turning-houseplants-into-remote.php

But Why?: Turning Houseplants Into Remote Controls | Geekologie Because what good is a houseplant if it can't be used to change the channel real quick from the adult movie you were watching when your roommate comes home unexpected, scientists at Disney Research in Pittsburgh have developed a...

http://www.icbls.org/

ICBLS 2012 2012 International Conference on Biological and Life Sciences

http://www.beyond-the-genome.com/

http://www.beyond-the-genome.com/

This will be at 1:30pm Friday April 20th in the Bioinformatics Building room 105.

A Statistical Framework for eQTL Mapping Using RNA-seq Data -- Presented by Dr. Wei Sun, UNC Chapel. Bioinformatics Research CenterCharlotte Research Institute David H. Murdock Institute North Carolina Biotechnology Center North Carolina Research Campus

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-04/can-eating-buckyball-infused-olive-oil-prolong-your-lifespan

Can Eating Buckyball-Infused Olive Oil Prolong Your Lifespan? With their strange 60-atom structures, buckyballs could have potential as drug carriers, medical tracers, cancer fighters and other interesting applications in the human body, but studies examining their impact on the body have had mixed results. A group of French researchers set out to study its to...

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

This will be tomorrow at 1:30pm Friday April 13th

High Throughput Sequencing for Diversity Analysis, Gene Discovery and Sorghum Improvement - Presente Bioinformatics Research CenterCharlotte Research Institute David H. Murdock Institute North Carolina Biotechnology Center North Carolina Research Campus

We're gonna try and get our Facebook group going.

We are having our first group meeting Wed. at 3:45pm in room 218.