News
September 2008
- Professor Matthew Bellgard 'Applied Genomics-Gene and Health' Speaker at the 2008 International Conference on Genomics-Applications in Asia-Pacific, 2-5 November 2008, Shenzhen & Hong Kong, China. more...
- The VI International Conference on Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens (TTP-6) was held in Argentina 21-26 September 2008. CCG's Sebastian Kurscheid presented 'Putatative RNA Interference Pathway in Ticks.' more...
- CCG's Adjunct Associate Professor Ala Lew 'Queensland Smart Women - Smart State Award 2008' winner under the category 'Women in the Community/Public Sector - Science,' based on the Beef CRC 'A New Cattle Tick Vaccine' Project. more...
August 2008
- The VI International Conference on Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens (TTP-6) to be held in Argentina 21-26 September 2008. Key collaborator Dr Ala Lew to present 'Reverse vaccinology approach for the identification of novel Rhipicephalus (boophilus) microplus vaccine candidates.' more...
- CCG's Professor Alan Bittles presented 'Human Adaptation' at the 9th International Congress of Physiological Anthropology Symposium 'Human Diversity: design for life' in the Netherlands. more...
- CCG's Research Leader, Professor Rudi Appels, presented at the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium Meeting as part of the 11th International Wheat Genetics Sympsoium more...
- The iVEC Informatics Facility located within the CCG has completed commissioning the new High Performance Computing SGI Altix XE1300 Cluster System. more...
June/ July 2008
- The Functional & Integrative Genomics Journal (CCG's Professor Rudi Appels Editor-in-Chief and Professor Matthew Bellgard Managing Editor) has been assigned its first Impact Factor of 4.18 more...
- Professor Matthew Bellgard member of the 19th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW) 2008 National Organising Committee more...
- CCG's Research Leader, Professor Rudi Appels, to present at the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium Meeting on Sunday 24 August 2008 as part of the 11th International Wheat Genetics Sympsoium more...
- The iVEC Informatics facility at Murdoch University completed commissioning the new High Performance Computing SGI Altix XE310 Cluster System.
May 2008
- Professor Matthew Bellgard 'Comparative Genomics Symposium' Speaker at the 55th Annual Conference of the Genetics Society of AustralAsia, to be held in Adelaide, Australia 7-10 July 2008 more...
- The iVEC Informatics facility at Murdoch University will complete the commissioning of the new High Performance Computing SGI Altix XE310 Cluster System by the end of July 2008.
- Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, has announced the successful funding of the Australian Research Council Linkage Project proposal An integrated genomics approach to improve our understanding fo the biology of genital camplobacteriosis in beef cattle, administrated through the University of Queensland and collaborated through the QLD Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries. Professor Matthew Bellgard is a Chief Investigator of the project.
- CCG's Professor Rudi Appels' Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) Tender Allele specific markers for key glutenins approved by the GRDC Board.
April 2008
- The iVEC Informatics facility at Murdoch University has taken delivery of the new High Performance Computing SGI Altix XE310 Cluster System. Commissioning of the super computer to be completed within 3 months.
- The CCG will be guiding a high school student though a biotechnology research project as part of the sanofi-aventis International BioGENEius Challenge of Western Australia Pilot Competition run by the Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR). Each year two student finalists from WA progress to compete in the sanofi-aventis International BioGENEius Challenge held in the USA.
- The International Symposium on Animal Functional Genomics was held in Edinburgh, 7-9 April 2008. Key collaborator Dr Louise Jackson presented “Bos Taurus and Bos indicus cattle infested with Rhipicephalus microplus show different patterns of gene expression and immune reactions.”
- CCG’s Professor Alan Bittles is conference organiser for ‘Celebrating 100 years of Medical Genetics,’ to be held in London from 22-23 May 2008 more...
