| Affiliations: | Genetics & Genomics Research Leadership |
| Project Leader: | Emrah Ozel, Ph.D.
emrah.ozel@ag.tamu.edu Entomology |
| Faculty Mentor: | Phillip Kaufman, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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TBA |
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Team Size:
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4
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| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Students in this team will have the opportunity to learn and practice bioinformatic methods and research skills, explore the field of genomic data mining, and participate in potential posters and publications.
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Team Needs:
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Interest in bioinformatics, high-performance research computing (TAMU HPRC) and Linux operating system. |
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Description:
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Modern NGS platforms generate vast amount of sequence data in an untargeted fashion. This randomized and massively parallel sequencing technology allows exploring not only the host genome but also its metagenomic elements such as pathogens. Our laboratory studies insects of veterinary importance and the team will initially focus on tick datasets uploaded to public databases but the methods used in this project can be applied to a wide variety organisms. |