The Kelley Lab

Congratulations to Shawn for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! We are thrilled for Shawn. This is a fantastic testament to his accomplishments and promise as a graduate student!

“The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions… For the 2017 competition, NSF received over 13,000 applications, and made 2,000 award offers.” from https://www.nsfgrfp.org/.

Laura has arrived from France! We are very excited to have Laura visiting the lab for 5 months to work on detecting and annotating transposable elements in extreme species!

Laura obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Microbiology at the Montpellier University (France) and now she is in the last year of a Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics at the same university. During her master’s degree she has done two internships and developed a strong interest for comparative genomics and the impact of structural variation on the evolution of species. She worked on benchmarking of several tools for the detection of structural variation in the rice genome.

Congratulations to Alex Fraik and Michael Saxton on presenting their first oral presentations at the School of Biological Sciences Graduate Research Symposium! They both gave great talks! The School of Biological Sciences Graduate Research Symposium is organized by graduate students annually and coincides with our recruitment event for visiting prospective graduate students.