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Our lab is a Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Lab of the Food Science and Technology Department of UNL. We were in Dept of Biological Sciences of NIU between 2012 and 2018. We have the following major research interests:
- Plant and microbial bioinformatics
- Genome biology and evolutionary genomics
- Carbohydrate metabolism and secondary metabolism
Our research is currently supported by an NIH R21 award (R21AI171952), an NIH R01 award (R01GM140370), an NSF CAREER award (DBI-1933521), a USDA grant (58-8042-9-089), and UNL Start-up Funds. We were funded by an NIH AREA award (1R15GM114706) and NIU Start-up Funds and Research&Artistry awards.