Recent Events

2008 Hiram Genomics Academy summer research sessions (June 25-28 and July 9-12) for high school students.
April 3-4, 2008: Symposium: "Energizing Education with Genomics: Big Science Partnerships Propell Small College Advantages"
Academic year outreach program with area high schools on the functional genomics of the soil bacterium and plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
Research within molecular and cellular biology course on the function of two component regulatory systems within Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
Annotation of the genome sequence of the free-living nitrogen fixer Azotobacter vinelandii in the molecular and cellular biology and genetics courses.
Purchase and inauguration of confocal fluorescence microscopy system.
Research within genetics course on the assembly and annotation of the Agrobacterium rhizogenes A4 genome.
Inauguration of the Center and associated symposium on undergraduate research.
2007 Hiram Genomics Academy summer research sessions for high school students.

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