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UGA establishes new Faculty of Infectious Diseases to target threats to animal and human health worldwide
UGA News Service, March 10, 2008
The University of Georgia has established a new multidisciplinary Faculty of Infectious Diseases to address infectious disease threats to animal and human health worldwide.
Research goals for the new faculty include increasing understanding of the basic biology of infectious agents, their interactions with human and animal hosts, their natural ecology and the epidemiology of the diseases they cause. Equally important, the new faculty will focus on the application of this knowledge to improving the detection, control and prevention of infectious diseases through countermeasures such as vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics. [View Article]
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Emerging infectious diseases are on the rise: Next target “hotspot” predicted
UGA News Service, February 20, 2008
It’s not just your imagination. Providing the first-ever definitive proof, a team of scientists has shown that emerging infectious diseases such as HIV, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), West Nile virus and Ebola are indeed on the rise. The team – including University of Georgia professor John Gittleman and scientists from the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, the Institute of Zoology (London) and Columbia University – recently published their findings in leading scientific journal Nature.
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What’s Killing All the Honeybees?
UGA Research , Winter 2008
In Georgia and across the country, honeybees are disappearing from beekeepers’ hives. [View Article]
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Ecology Thrives at UGA
UGA Research , Winter 2008
Named for its founder, UGA’s new Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology has evolved from one man’s vision into a dynamic center for collaborative research. [View Article]
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Do Plankton Help Fight Global Warming?
UGA Research , Winter 2008
Marine biologists are investigating whether plankton are involved with ocean-atmosphere sulfur exchange. [View Article]
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Pine Gene Catalog to Aid Biofuels Research
UGA Research , Winter 2008
A UGA researcher is spearheading a project at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute that could develop pine trees tailored to the needs of the bioenergy industry. [View Article]
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Sewage-Contaminated Water Reaching Florida’s Offshore Keys
UGA Research , Winter 2008
UGA research shows that sewage is impinging on Florida’s Upper Keys, threatening corals and possibly human health. [View Article]
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U.S. and China Collaborate on Invasive-Species Studies
UGA Research , Winter 2008
A new grant will address how species from each country manage to invade the other. [View Article]
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Different Beats for Different Bats
UGA Research , Winter 2008
By studying bats year-round, scientists have learned that species adopt different survival strategies to survive winter’s cold. [View Article]
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One of the Human Body’s Natural Defenses
UGA Research , Winter 2008
A team of UGA scientists has discovered how the human body fights off an African parasite. [View Article]
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UGA researchers set sights on early detection of pancreatic cancer
UGA News Service, August 22, 2007
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers, but work being conducted by a team of University of Georgia researchers aims to help physicians diagnose the disease early, when it’s more easily treated.
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UGA forest genetics researcher leads effort to sequence and catalog conifer genes for future biofuels research
UGA News Service, August 17, 2007
Jeffrey Dean, professor of forest biotechnology in the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, is spearheading a project at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) that will greatly expand the gene catalog for pines and initiate the first gene discovery efforts in five other conifer families.
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Researchers find a shortcut for screening resistant soybean crops
EurekAlert, July 15, 2007
Researchers with the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies at the University of Georgia report in the July issue of The Plant Genome the discovery of several molecular markers that will help soybean breeders to accurately screen for root-knot resistant plants at a fraction of the time and cost of current screening techniques. [View Article]
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UGA biotech company raises funds for its expansion
Athens Banner-Herald, July 14, 2007
Abeome Corp., a biotech company operating out of the University of Georgia's Georgia Biobusiness Center, recently raised $350,000 toward a $1.5 million funding goal to support operations and expand the company's lab, President and CEO Mike Wanner said. [View Article]
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North American beavers change functioning of subantarctic stream ecosystems
UGA News Service, June 27, 2007
Research by UGA ecologists has determined that the introduction of the North American beaver (Castor cannadensis) into Cape Horn, Chile changes the functioning of the stream ecosystems. [View Article]
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UGA scientists receive $20 M in federal bioenergy initiative
UGA News Service, June 26, 2007
Scientists at the University of Georgia
teamed with researchers at major universities, national research
laboratories and industry colleagues to win a bid from the Department
of Energy for a $125 million bioenergy research center that will seek
new ways to produce biofuels. [View Article]
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UGA to open nation’s first School of Ecology July 1; John Gittleman named dean
UGA News Service, June 22, 2007
The nation’s first stand-alone academic school
devoted specifically to the study of ecology will begin operation July
1 when the University of Georgia opens the Eugene P. Odum School of
Ecology on its Athens campus. [View Article]
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UGA study finds that violence costs nation $70 billion annually
UGA News Service, June 5, 2007
The most comprehensive study of its kind has
found that violence costs the United States $70 billion annually, a
figure that rivals federal education spending and the damage caused by
hurricane Katrina. [View Article]
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State gives Avigenics loan to grow
Athens Banner-Herald, June 1, 2007
Athens biotech company AviGenics will get a $773,300 OneGeorgia loan to help pay for a egg production facility in Wilkes County. [View Article]
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UGA study reveals function of ubiquitous yet poorly understood microorganisms: Discovery of ecological and metabolic roles of archaea in hot springs may shed light on early evolution
UGA News Service, May 23, 2007
Discovered in the late 1970s, archaea are one of
the three main branches on the tree of life, with bacteria and
eukaryotes such as plants and animals on the other two branches. [View Article]
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New biofuel from trees developed at UGA: Still-unnamed fuel can be blended with biodiesel, petroleum diesel; Has potential to boost Georgia’s economy
UGA News Service, May 18, 2007
A team of University of Georgia researchers has
developed a new biofuel derived from wood chips. Unlike previous fuels
derived from wood, the new and still unnamed fuel can be blended with
biodiesel and petroleum diesel to power conventional engines. [View Article]
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UGA researchers design tiny “natural motors” that could one day improve drug delivery
UGA Public Affairs, April 20, 2007
A team of physicists from the University of Georgia has demonstrated
for the first time a new technique to create tiny “natural motors” that
could lead to new methods of drug delivery, disease treatment and
bioengineering. [View Article]
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Study finds antibiotic resistance in poultry even when antibiotics were not used
UGA Public Affairs, March 7, 2007
A surprising finding by a team of University of
Georgia scientists suggests that curbing the use of antibiotics on
poultry farms will do little – if anything – to reduce rates of
antibiotic resistant bacteria that have the potential to threaten human
health. [View Article]
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From Farm to Fork
UGA Research Magazine, Winter 2007
Consumers’ love affair with pre-washed, bagged fresh produce, a $2.8 billion-a-year industry, chilled last fall following a nationwide outbreak of food-borne illness resulting from contaminated bagged spinach. [View Article]
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In Search of Crypto's Achilles Heel
UGA Research Magazine, Winter 2007
One way to get rid of a parasite—an organism that lives on or in a different species—is to destroy the host, as in killing mosquitoes to eliminate the malaria parasite within it. This approach is not desirable when the host is us. [View Article]
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Averting the Next Pandemic
UGA Research Magazine, Winter 2007
By studying avian influenza through a range of collaborative inquiries, UGA researchers and their cooperators near and far are seeking to defeat a wily and potentially deadly enemy. [View Article]
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Research rich in potential
Athens Banner-Herald, Feb. 10, 2007
An Athens company's new technique for mass-producing neural stem cells holds the promise of a cure or a better life for people who suffer from devastating medical conditions, according to the researcher who founded the company as well as some who suffer from those crippling neurological conditions. [View Article]
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Silver bullet: UGA researchers use laser, nanotechnology to rapidly detect viruses
UGA Public Affairs, Nov 15, 2006
Waiting a day or more to get lab results back
from the doctor’s office soon could become a thing of a past. Using
nanotechnology, a team of University of Georgia researchers has
developed a diagnostic test that can detect viruses as diverse as
influenza, HIV and RSV in 60 seconds or less. [View Article]
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UGA study underscores importance of rapid response in curtailing disease outbreaks
UGA Public Affairs, January 3, 2007
A new University of Georgia study suggests that rapid detection combined with aggressive education can dramatically curtail outbreaks of emerging infectious disease such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). [View Article]
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UGA study identifies North American wild bird species that could transmit bird flu: Finding comes on heels of a $2.6 million CDC grant to study the probability of human contact and transmission of bird flu
UGA Public Affairs, Oct 23, 2006
University of Georgia researchers have found that the common wood duck and laughing gull are very susceptible to highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses and have the potential to transmit them. [View Article]
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