CIB News
Forging New Connections in China
Aggies now have a place to hang their hat (or lab coat) in China. USU officials traveled to the People’s Republic of China May 7-17 to sign two agreements fostering collaborative research and academic exchange with Chinese universities. Included in the agreements was the establishment of a satellite facility for Utah State’s Center for Integrated BioSystems at Xiamen University.
» full storyWinners of CIB's Small World Photo Contest Announced
Who knew mildew, fungi and bacteria could be so beautiful? The results are in for the first Small World Photomicrography Competition of USU?s Center for Integrated BioSystems.USU to sign 2 research pacts with Chinese
A delegation led by Utah State University President Stan Albrecht will travel to the People?s Republic of China this week to sign two agreements that will promote joint research with universities there.It's a Small World, After All: CIB Seeking 'Tiny? Photo Contest Entries
USU?s Center for Integrated BioSystems (CIB) seeks entries for its Small World Photomicrography Competition. All are invited to participate, and the deadline for entries is March 31, 2006.Recent News
Ken White Named Interim Athletics Director
CIB partners with local alternative High School for great results
Salt Lake Tribune reports on presentation given by High School Students at Great Salt Lake (GSL) meeting.
John Carman Wins $2 million ATP Grant
Platforms for Producing Biocontained High-Value Products in Hybrid Seed Crops Caisson Laboratories, In.
Develop a suite of biotechnology tools to redirect the biosynthetic processes in seeds to enable large-scale production of seed-based biofuel feedstocks and other biomaterials for the industrial and pharmaceutical sectors while preventing the genetically modified traits from being transferred to other plants.
Caisson Laboratories has proposed creating a suite of broadly applicable biotechnology tools to redirect the biosynthetic capacity of seeds for the large-scale production of seed-based biofuel feedstocks and other biomaterials for the industrial and pharmaceutical sectors; and prevent genetically modified traits from being transferred to other plants through pollen. The proposed tools will regulate the expression of certain plant genes while diverting large percentages of photoassimilate (the energy-storing sugars produced by photosynthesis) to the production in seeds of high-value natural or synthetic compounds. Three commercially valuable applications of this technology will be demonstrated by the end of the project: the alteration of plant metabolic pathways to substantially increase the production per acre of fermentable starch in harvested seeds of grain sorghum; the prevention of germination among second-generation (F2) plants such that inadvertently unharvested volunteer sorghum plants do not create a weed problem in subsequent seasons; and transgene biocontainment such that pollen-based gene flow among engineered sorghum plants and neighboring crops or weeds is prevented. Once the first two tools are available, their impact on the U.S. economy would be substantial; in fact, the value of the increase in the amount of ethanol produced is expected to exceed $2 billion at today’s production levels and cost structure. As for transgene biocontainment, the technology may provide the basis for meeting future regulatory standards for valuable genetically modified traits in crops.
2007 Biotechnology Summer Academy
July 09 - July 13, 2007
The Seventh Annual Biotechnology Summer Academy, directed by Dr. Afifa Sabir, Education Coordinator for the Center for Integrated BioSystems, exposes high school students to the numerous career opportunities available in biotechnology.
CIB Proteomics Group
May 1, 2007
Starting May 1, 2007 CIB Proteomics Group officially offer a gel-free
and labeling-free protein expression study service. This service uses
Waters Protein Expression System which embodies a global Peptide
Discovery / Quantification (PDQ) strategy for multiplexed qualitative
and quantitative proteomics. In the protein expression study protein
mixtures are tryptically digested and then analyzed by ESI/LC/MS/MS
using a Waters' nanoACQUITY UPLC System interfaced to a Waters Micromass
Q-Tof Premier mass spectrometer. Please contact Dr. Dong Chen
(dong.chen@usu.edu, 435-760-3766) for further information.
Teens Sought for USU's 2006 Summer Biotech Academy
July 10 - July 14, 2006
Applications are now being taken for Utah State University’s sixth annual Biotechnology Summer Academy for high school students. Conducted by the university’s Center for Integrated BioSystems, the intensive five-day program, slated for July 10-14, offers teens hands-on opportunities in cutting-edge research.
Year Round Educational Programs
September 22, 2005Afifa Sabir maintains a robust, year round schedule of educational programs geared to high school students, public school teachers, university researchers and life science professionals.
Mapping Mary's Lamb
June 09, 2005Utah State University is among the four-nation International Sheep Genome Sequencing Consortium that will soon begin work toward mapping the genome of sheep...
Newly Discovered Bacteria Dine On Carcinogens
January 27, 2005Biology professors Anne Anderson, Joanne Hughes and Charles Miller are working with engineering professor Ronald Sims to research genetic information on five microbes that attack, or eat away, carcinogens and toxins in contaminated soils.
Mule Cloning and Beyond
December 06, 2004Tyler Riggs of the Herald Journal interviews USU professor Ken White on recent mule cloning success and future plans.
CIB Now an Affymetrix GeneChip? System Core Facility
August 13, 2004The CIB now offers an Affymetrix GeneChip? Array System, through the efforts and generosity of the U.S.D.A. The CIB acquired the system in September 2004 and has made its use available in its core labs to researchers both on-campus and off-campus.
New Graduate Student Training Courses
May 27, 2004The Center for Integrated BioSystems' education program announces the addition of Graduate Student Training Courses.
USU Adding Microarray Analysis Class
March 31, 2004The math/stats department is offering a new course for the analysis of microarray data (Stat 5810) for the Fall 2004 semester. It is a 3 credit course that will be taught by Dr. Adele Cutler (adele@math.usu.edu).
Agricultural Genomics: Who, What and Why
March 26, 2004The Center for Integrated BioSystems at Utah State University proudly presents a one day symposium in conjunction with the June 13-17, 2004 American Association for the Advancement of Science / Pacific Division annual meeting to be held on the USU campus.
CIB Open House
March 10, 2004Discover what's new at our Center, meet the staff, and join us for refreshments. University President Kermit Hall will speak at 3:15 pm. Tours will be given at 4:00 pm and 4:30 pm.
E.L. and Inez Waldron Biotechnology Endowment Fund
March 04, 2004The E.L. and Inez Waldron Biotechnology Endowment Fund was established to provide support for special educational needs of biotechnology graduate students. Five $500 scholarships will be awarded.
Research companies merge
March 04, 2004North Logan-based Apomyx Inc. has announced a merger with Caisson Laboratories of Sugar City, Idaho, and will continue to pursue developments in plant-breeding techniques under a new corporation known as Gemini Life Sciences
2003-2004 Seed Grant Awards
January 28, 2004Seed Grant Awards for 2003-2004 Announced.
Cloned Mules Healthy, Providing Insight into Nature vs. Nurture Debate
January 27, 2004In the five months since Idaho Gem caught the world’s attention as the first equine clone, the little mule has proven himself healthy, vigorous and just a bit of a ham.
Utah State University Biotech Expertise Recognized in Pacific Rim Countries
January 27, 2004Kamal Rashid, associate director of education at Utah State's Center for Integrated BioSystems (formerly the Biotechnology and Genomics Center) recently organized a training program in Singapore, at Ngee Ann Polytechnic
85th Annual Meeting of the AAAS Pacific Division
January 12, 2004The Pacific Division and its affiliated societies will hold their 85th annual meeting on the campus of the Utah State University. The Center for Integrated BioSystems to help organize Agricultural Genomics symposia.
Third Equine Clone Born
October 30, 2003The scientists who produced the world’s first clone born to the horse family won the trifecta Sunday with the successful birth of a third cloned mule foal.
Second Equine Clone Born
October 30, 2003The same research team that produced the world’s first cloned member of the horse family, a mule, has repeated its success with the early morning birth of “Utah Pioneer”
Kenneth White Biographical Information
October 30, 2003In the final weeks of completing his bachelor’s degree in the late 1970s, Kenneth White learned about embryo transfer techniques that were then the newest, cutting-edge of animal reproductive science. He was hooked. Now, some 24 years later
To Clone a Mule: History Offers Mixed Messages
October 30, 2003For a mule, the only option for reproduction is cloning. A mule is the sterile hybrid that results from the crossing of a horse and donkey.
First Mule Cloned
October 30, 2003A University of Idaho-Utah State University research team was the first worldwide to clone a member of the horse family, a mule, according to a paper published online by the journal Science.