Howdy, As today marks my first day as Director of the Texas A&M AgriLife Genomics & Bioinformatics Service (TxGen), I wanted to reach out directly to all of you to thank Dr. Charlie Johnson for his 16 years of visionary leadership. Having worked alongside Charlie at TxGen for many years, and having served as Assistant Read more about Continuing the TxGen Tradition: A Note from the New Director[…]
XSEDE team speeds evaluations of transcriptome reconstruction, which will aid our understanding of cellular changes. Scientists hope to establish best practices that will help other researchers find clues to how cells change their behavior in response to disease processes …. “It’s crucial to determine the important factors that affect transcriptome reconstruction,” says Noushin Ghaffari of Read more about Opening the spigot at XSEDE[…]
August 17, 2013. Dr. Johnson was interviewed for the August addition of the Texas Water Resources Institute’s txH2O magazine on marker assisted breeding
August 8, 2013 Our new Center was approval from Board of Regents, creating the new joint Texas A&M AgriLife Research and TEES combined Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering (CBGSE). Link As one of the two managing directors, Dr. Johnson will be responsible for oversight of joint application research programs across AgriLife Research performed by Read more about New Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics Research[…]
July 19, 2013 Department of Poultry Science at Texas A&M University is seeking an Assistant Professor/Associate Professor in Avian Genomics/Systems Biology http://goo.gl/gU4L4
July 9, 2013: GenomeWeb interview with Dr. Johnson. Genotyping-by-Sequencing Gaining Ground in Ecology, Animal, and Plant Breeding Studies http://bit.ly/12WchTV
June 27, 2013: We are hiring for an entry level lab Research Assistant. Link
June 4, 2013: Dr. Charlie Johnson was interviewed by In Sequence – GenomeWeb and asked to comment on a new genotyping-by-sequencing approach developed by a German research group. The complete article can be found here ( http://lnkd.in/tNzc_u ): “German Team Develops Genotyping-by-Sequencing Approach for Desktop Machines” By Monica Heger
March 25, 2013: Come visit our new main campus offices (1157B and C) in the Texas A&M University Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB) bioinformatics lab. We are thrilled and honored to join the phenomenal group of researchers and educators within the ILSB. Video
March 15, 2013:Illumina just finished upgrading our HiSeq to the 2500 Whoop! Quoted from the Illumina Website: “The HiSeq 2500 system features two run modes, rapid run and high output run mode, and the ability to process one or two flow cells simultaneously. This provides a flexible and scalable platform that supports the broadest range of Read more about Illumina just finished upgrading our HiSeq to the 2500 Whoop![…]