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The Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics has won $2.8 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and $2.7 million in grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). These include a grant from the NIH to develop image analysis technologies and web-based resources to accelerate discovery of gene interactions in the fruit fly, a grant from the NSF to sequence the complete genomes of four key species of bacteria, and a grant from the NIH to conduct a comparative analysis of genes and genomes.

Titles of recent funded grants include:

• “Spatial analysis across biological disciplines,” NSF
• “Effect of sequence alignment fidelity on genome research,” NIH
• “Theory of adaptation in experimental and natural populations,” NSF
• “Microbial genome sequencing: Genome sequences for four phototrophic prokaryotes,” NSF
• “Computational analysis of gene expression pattern images,” NIH
• “Comparative molecular sequence analysis,” NIH
• “Design of a bioinformatic database for functional evolutionary footprints in multigene families,” NSF

 

The Center actively collaborates with the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) on joint research projects and training for post-doctoral students.