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GSBS Student Jesse Salisbury to Defend on December 21

Jesse Salisbury, a GSBS Student in the Funtional Genomics Track will present “ANALYSIS OF POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL RNA PROCESSING” as part of his oral defense in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Functional Genomics.  The presentaton portion of the exam is open to all interested in attending. and will be held […]

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GSBS Student Presents at Symposium in Bonn, Germany

On October 6, GSBS student Karen Dowell presented at the 7th Fraunhofer Symposium on Text Mining in Bonn, Germany.  This event was a forum for publishers, pharmaceutical and biotech professionals, and academic and government scientists to discuss trends and challenges in text mining research.  The focus of her talk was “ProMiner at MGI:  implementing dictionary-based named entity […]

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GSBS Student First-Author Publication

On September 16, GSBS 2nd-year student Karen Dowell had her first first-author, peer-reviewed paper accepted by “Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.”  It should be published online later this month. The article reference is:  Dowell KG, MS McAndrews-Hill, DP Hill, HJ Drabkin, JA Blake (2009) “Integrating text mining into the MGI biocuration workflow.” […]

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