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HAIB News - Wed, 01/01/2025 - 1:00am
At HudsonAlpha we engage the power of biotechnology to improve life. Implementing a three-fold mission of genomic research, economic development and educational outreach, HudsonAlpha creates the environment and conditions to nurture life-affirming "Eureka!" moments in the lab, marketplace and classroom.
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HudsonAlpha's educational outreach work praised by Huntsville Times editorial board
HAIB News - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:49am
News Outlet: The Huntsville Times Date published: February 5, 2012
The Alabama Reading Initiative has made a dramatic difference improving the reading proficiency among public school students. So much so that it's often held up as a model for other states. The Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative, also managed under the State Department of Education, strives for similar success. American schoolchildren are woefully behind students in other industrialized nations in their science and math abilities.
Two lead stories last week in The Times show how Huntsville is working with educators to share its vast knowledge of technology, math and the sciences. HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are playing a key role in educating students and teachers in those disciplines.
To read the rest of the editorial in The Huntsville Times, please click here.
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HudsonAlpha's educational outreach work praised by Huntsville Times editorial board
HAIB Education News - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 9:49am
News Outlet: The Huntsville Times Date published: February 5, 2012
The Alabama Reading Initiative has made a dramatic difference improving the reading proficiency among public school students. So much so that it's often held up as a model for other states. The Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative, also managed under the State Department of Education, strives for similar success. American schoolchildren are woefully behind students in other industrialized nations in their science and math abilities.
Two lead stories last week in The Times show how Huntsville is working with educators to share its vast knowledge of technology, math and the sciences. HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are playing a key role in educating students and teachers in those disciplines.
To read the rest of the editorial in The Huntsville Times, please click here.
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Study on aging looks at sequence changes over time
HAIB News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 4:27pm
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- A recent study of the effects of age on DNA sequences in blood cells suggests the human genome undergoes more changes during a person’s lifetime than previously thought.
As cells divide, the DNA sequence inherited from parents has to be copied. This process can lead to mutations in the DNA sequence, and some of these mutations involve large segments of chromosomes that have been deleted or duplicated in the newly divided cells.
According to Devin Absher, Ph.D, faculty investigator at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and co-author of a recent publication on aging, the number of these large mutations increases as we age. "Even more surprising," said Absher, "the accumulation of these large mutations is much more dynamic than we anticipated. Some mutations can rise and fall in frequency in blood cells over decades within an individual."
Release Date: February 3, 2012 (All day) Contact Name: Holly Ralston Contact Email: hralston@hudsonalpha.org Contact Phone: 256.508.8954 Organization Background: The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama, is the cornerstone of the Cummings Research Park Biotechnology Campus. The campus hosts a synergistic cluster of life sciences talent - science, education and business professionals - that promises collaborative innovation to turn knowledge and ideas into commercial products and services for improving human health and strengthening Alabama’s progressively diverse economy. The non-profit institute is housed in a state-of-the-art, 270,000 square-ft. facility strategically located in the nation’s second largest research park. HudsonAlpha has a three-fold mission of genomic research, economic development and educational outreach.Categories: Institute News
Support HudsonAlpha during Alabama Gives Day
HAIB Education News - Sat, 01/28/2012 - 1:42am
On Thursday, Feb. 2, our community will come together for Alabama Gives Day, and we need YOU to join us. It’s 24 hours of unprecedented nonprofit giving—and it’s your chance to make a real difference, right here in our community.
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Support HudsonAlpha during Alabama Gives Day
HAIB News - Sat, 01/28/2012 - 1:42am
On Thursday, Feb. 2, our community will come together for Alabama Gives Day, and we need YOU to join us. It’s 24 hours of unprecedented nonprofit giving—and it’s your chance to make a real difference, right here in our community.
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Registration now open for 5K and 1-mile Double Helix Dash
HAIB News - Mon, 01/23/2012 - 9:57am
Registration is open for the Double Helix Dash at HudsonAlpha. The race is scheduled for April 10 at McMillian Park, located at 601 Genome Way in Cummings Research Park.
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MTSU's Elliot Altman, Ph.D., kicks off 2012 seminar series
HAIB News - Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:34pm
Discussion to include protein-based motifs to stabilize and improve peptide therapeutics
The year's first weekly seminar speaker won't need to travel a great distance to share his research. Elliot Altman, Ph.D., is the director of Middle Tennessee State University's doctorate program, a relatively new program for the university.
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MTSU's Elliot Altman, Ph.D., kicks off 2012 seminar series
HAIB Education News - Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:34pm
Discussion to include protein-based motifs to stabilize and improve peptide therapeutics
The year's first weekly seminar speaker won't need to travel a great distance to share his research. Elliot Altman, Ph.D., is the director of Middle Tennessee State University's doctorate program, a relatively new program for the university.
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Collaborative project between Myers lab and Epicentre featured in Genome Research
HAIB News - Wed, 12/14/2011 - 10:47am
News Outlet: Genome Research Date published: December 2, 2011 Download PDF: Genome Research.pdf
A collaborative effort between Epicentre and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology resulted in the development of two novel transposon-based methods for RNA-Seq library preparation. The technique, called Tn-RNA-Seq, can use double-stranded cDNA created from rRNA-depleted RNA to prepare an Illumina sequencing library using only two enzymatic reactions. The researchers generated high-quality RNA-Seq libraries from as little as 10 pg of mRNA (~1 ng of total RNA) with this approach.
To read the rest of the article, click here.
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AAAS announces 2011 fellows
HAIB News - Tue, 12/13/2011 - 9:53am
HudsonAlpha leader among influential group
WASHINGTON and HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Richard M. Myers, Ph.D., president and director of HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
“Considering the many exciting advances and discoveries taking place across the spectrum of science, I am honored to be included among this year’s fellows,” said Myers. Myers, formerly chair of the department of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, stepped up to guide genomic research when HudsonAlpha launched its facilities and programs in 2008.
Release Date: December 12, 2011 - 1:00am Contact Name: Holly Ralston Contact Email: hralston@hudsonalpha.org Organization Background: The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama, is the cornerstone of the Cummings Research Park Biotechnology Campus. The campus hosts a synergistic cluster of life sciences talent - science, education and business professionals - that promises collaborative innovation to turn knowledge and ideas into commercial products and services for improving human health and strengthening Alabama’s progressively diverse economy. The non-profit institute is housed in a state-of-the-art, 270,000 square-ft. facility strategically located in the nation’s second largest research park. HudsonAlpha has a three-fold mission of genomic research, economic development and educational outreach. * * * The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science (www.sciencemag.org) as well as Science Translational Medicine (www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org) and Science Signaling (www.sciencesignaling.org). AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS (www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, www.eurekalert.org, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.Categories: Institute News
Seminar speaker to discuss aneuploidy and adaptation in yeast
HAIB News - Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:26pm
HudsonAlpha is pleased to welcome Dr. Maitreya Dunham from the University of Washington as the next seminar lecturer. Dunham will speak on aneuploidy and adaptation in yeast Wednesday, Dec. 4 at noon. Dunham was profiled earlier this year in Genome Technology, which can be found here. In the profile, Dunham discussed her interest in applying studies of chromosome loss in yeast to the biology of human cancer cells. Her lab in Washington uses both experimental evolution and genomic analysis. The weekly seminar series is held in the auditorium. Attendance is free.
The next seminar will feature Dr. Elliot Altman of Middle Tennessee State University. He will speak on Wednesday, Jan. 4 at noon.
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Seminar speaker to discuss aneuploidy and adaptation in yeast
HAIB Education News - Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:26pm
HudsonAlpha is pleased to welcome Dr. Maitreya Dunham from the University of Washington as the next seminar lecturer. Dunham will speak on aneuploidy and adaptation in yeast Wednesday, Dec. 4 at noon. Dunham was profiled earlier this year in Genome Technology, which can be found here. In the profile, Dunham discussed her interest in applying studies of chromosome loss in yeast to the biology of human cancer cells. Her lab in Washington uses both experimental evolution and genomic analysis. The weekly seminar series is held in the auditorium. Attendance is free.
The next seminar will feature Dr. Elliot Altman of Middle Tennessee State University. He will speak on Wednesday, Jan. 4 at noon.
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Mite-y genomic resources for protecting bioenergy crops
HAIB News - Wed, 11/23/2011 - 1:16pm
HudsonAlpha investigator part of Department of Energy team focusing on tiny pest
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. and HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- For a pest that isn't quite the size of a comma on a keyboard, the two-spotted spider mite can do a disproportionate amount of damage. These web-spinners extract the nutrients they need from leaves of more than a thousand different plant species, including bioenergy feedstocks and food staples. The cost of chemically controlling spider mites to counteract reduced harvest yields hovers around $1 billion annually, reflecting their significant economic impact.
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HudsonAlpha iCell No. 3 free downloaded education iPad app on iTunes
HAIB News - Sat, 11/05/2011 - 12:54pm
News Outlet: The Huntsville Times Date published: November 4, 2011
The HudsonAlpha iCell, a free education app, has taken its creators to an "unbelievable" height.
Nearly a week after it was featured by Apple as a "new and noteworthy" education app, more than 9,000 people have downloaded iCell from iTunes. The iPhone version rose to No. 7 in the top education apps list, and it's currently No. 3 in the download list for iPads.
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TEDx conference Sunday to feature Dr. Neil Lamb
HAIB Education News - Thu, 11/03/2011 - 9:10am
News Outlet: TEDx Date published: October 31, 2011
TED is an annual event that brings together the world's leading thinkers and doers to share ideas that matter in any discipline. "TED" stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design -- three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. The talks at the conference, called "TEDTalks," are then made free at TED.com.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxHuntsville, where x=independently organized TED event. At our first TEDxHuntsville event, TEDTalks video and live speaking will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
To learn more about the Huntsville conference and its presenters, including Dr. Lamb, click here.
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TEDx conference Sunday to feature Dr. Neil Lamb
HAIB News - Thu, 11/03/2011 - 9:10am
News Outlet: TEDx Date published: October 31, 2011
TED is an annual event that brings together the world's leading thinkers and doers to share ideas that matter in any discipline. "TED" stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design -- three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. The talks at the conference, called "TEDTalks," are then made free at TED.com.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxHuntsville, where x=independently organized TED event. At our first TEDxHuntsville event, TEDTalks video and live speaking will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
To learn more about the Huntsville conference and its presenters, including Dr. Lamb, click here.
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TEDx conference Sunday to feature Dr. Neil Lamb
HAIB Education News - Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:56am
News Outlet: TEDx Date published: November 1, 2011
TED is an annual event that brings together the world's leading thinkers and doers to share ideas that matter in any discipline. "TED" stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design -- three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. The talks at the conference, called "TEDTalks," are then made free at TED.com.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxHuntsville, where x=independently organized TED event. At our first TEDxHuntsville event, TEDTalks video and live speaking will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
To learn more about the Huntsville conference and its presenters, including Dr. Lamb, click here.
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TEDx conference Sunday to feature Dr. Neil Lamb
HAIB News - Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:56am
News Outlet: TEDx Date published: November 1, 2011
TED is an annual event that brings together the world's leading thinkers and doers to share ideas that matter in any discipline. "TED" stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design -- three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. The talks at the conference, called "TEDTalks," are then made free at TED.com.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxHuntsville, where x=independently organized TED event. At our first TEDxHuntsville event, TEDTalks video and live speaking will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
To learn more about the Huntsville conference and its presenters, including Dr. Lamb, click here.
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Institute unveils iCell 3.0 as teaching tool
HAIB Education News - Mon, 10/24/2011 - 8:23am
News Outlet: The Huntsville Times Date published: October 22, 2011
A product to help students better understand biology has evolved into one that can help them decide "what they want to be when they grow up."
The HudsonAlpha iCell 3.0 app is a new and improved version of the iCell, which has been available since April last year. It was originally created to help students "see" a cell in 3D, which is much more preferable than the way most of us have "seen" cells - flat pictures on flat pages in our biology books.
"It's really interesting to see how technology has changed in just a year and a half," said Dr. Adam Hott, the coordinator of educational outreach at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. "This changes the way biology is taught."
To read the rest of the story in The Huntsville Times, click here.
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