News

General
Feb 3, 2021
New Undergrad Student Joined: Kolton Hauck
Kolton is a Biological Engineering major and is working on a minor in Computer Science. He wants to use computers to solve modern-day biological problems. He enjoys eating, sleeping and working out.
Jan 11-15, 2020
Naveen presents at International Plant Animal Genome Conference
Naveen Duhan, a PhD student from our lab, attended the International Plant Animal Genome Conference in San Diego. He presented a poster on citSatdb and Greeningdb, and presented an oral talk on citSatdb.
Mar 21, 2020
New HPC Admin: Shelby McCowan
Shelby is a Biochemistry major who aspires to go into software engineering. He has worked with mobile apps, websites (including the front and back end), and desktop applications. He is a percussionist in his spare time.
Science
July 1, 2018
Plant-mSubP
Identification of the subcellular location of protein has been an area of interest in protein science.
April 1, 2018
GreeningDB
Here we present GreeningDB, a database implemented to provide to general audience the annotation of liberibacter proteomes, and a host-pathogen comparactomics tool
Jan 1, 2018
PredHPI
Host-Pathogen Interactions (HPI), which includes from the initial invasion of host cells by the pathogen through the proliferation of pathogen in their host, are studied to find potential genomic targets for the development of novel drugs, vaccines, and other therapeutics.
July 1,2017
LigPred
LigPred is an attempt to discover novel lignin related proteins not discoverable through more general means.
April 1, 2017
AP-iNET
AP-iNET is a computational prediction system for host-pathogen protein-protein interactions in the Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas model system.
Media
November 4, 2021 USU Today
First International Heroes Night
Dr. Rakesh Kaundal has been selected for the 2021 International Faculty Recognition Award.
August 9, 2021 USU Today
NIH Funds USU Researchers' Work on Fathers' Nutrition and Children's Health
Dr. Kaundal is a Co-PI on a $1.56M research grant from the NIH.
April 6, 2021 USU Today
Uncovering Genes that Protect Alfalfa against Salinity Stress
Salt stress is an example of big data bringing immense benefits to plant science.
May 24, 2021 USU Today
Students Receive Grants to Conduct Undergraduate Research
Kolton Hauck is using big data to investigate diverse strands of SARS-CoV-2 virus.