Bob is a finalist for the 2022 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, the world's largest unrestricted prize honoring early-career scientists and engineers.

Congratulations Sohyun Bang for winning the Summer Research Grant for 2022! Keep up the good work!

Pablo Mendieta has been awarded the 2021-2022 Linton and June Bishop Fellowship by the Genetics Graduate Affairs Committee. Congratulations, Pablo!

Faheem has been selected as one of a select few UGA undergraduate students to receive this year's Presidential Award of Excellence! Keep up the good work, Faheem! We are proud of you.

Congratulations to Callan for winning the 2020 Cynthia Kenyon Award, given to one outstanding graduating UGA senior majoring in Genetics. Callan is heading to Stanford as a Knight-Hennessey Scholar. Well done!

Sohyun Bang and Michael Francis won second place for their DNA signification entry Music of Life in the 2019 UGA Capturing Science Contest! Congratulations, Sohyun!

Kudos to William Jordan who placed 1st in the graduate student poster competition at UGA's Plant Center retreat and to Adam who placed 3rd within the postdoc category.

Chad has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. Congratulations! Best of luck with your new adventure.

Congratulations to Brigitte and Will for being awarded a position on the NIH departmental NIH Training Grant. Keep up the great work.

Congratulations to Lexiang for being awarded the Ying Xu Outstanding Student Paper Award from the Institute of Bioinformatics.

Adam and others have developed a novel set of models to estimate context-specific methylation levels in any sample regardless of the availability of a reference genome. See manuscript at BioRxiv.

Congratulations to Brigitte for being awarded an NIH Training Grant Fellowship for her studies of plant epimutations.

Pat was named the Cynthia Kenyon Awardee at the Genetics Graduation Event. This award recognizes a student based on excellence in academics, research and leadership. This is well deserved. Congratulations Pat!

Pat just submitted his study that he started as an undergraduate. Taught himself programming with help from the lab. Nice work. bioRxiv

Another preprint from the lab on extensive natural variation of DNA methylation between angiosperm species bioRxiv

A truly collaborative effort put forth to understand the origins and evolutionary consequences of gene body DNA methylation in plant genomes. bioRxiv

Congratulations to Madeline Steffensen for being awarded a 2015 CURO Research Assistantship.

Congratulations to Kitra Cates for being awarded a 2015 CURO Research Assistantship.

In collaboration with the lab of Chuan He at the University of Chicago we've created a novel method to identify N4-methylcytosines in bacterial genomes. Great job Miao and Lexiang!

Bob was named a Pew Scholar and the lab received funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts to support research on epigenetic variants.

We're sad to see our all-star technician leave the lab today, but we're happy he is taking the next step in his career. Good luck!

Productive and fun collaboration with Steen Ooi's lab at UCL on establishment of DNA methylation patterns during spermatogenesis. Online today in Cell Reports.

We are announcing at #PAGXXIII the release of an updated version of Plant Methylome DB, which includes 20 unpublished DNA methylomes.

Brigitte has joined our lab and the Institute of Bioinformatics. Welcome!

Ji L, Sasaki T, Sun X, Ma P, Lewis ZA, Schmitz RJ. (2014) Methylated DNA is over-represented in whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data. Frontiers in Genetics 5:341. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00341

Congratulations to Pat Griffin for being awarded a CURO Research Assistantship!

Read our new study led by Pat West (a superstar undergraduate) and Qing Li from Nathan Springer's Lab at UM… Genomic distribution of H3K9me2 and DNA methylation in a maize genome. PLOS ONE Aug;9(8):e105267

Eichten S, Schmitz RJ, Springer NM. (2014) Epigenetics; beyond chromatin modifications and complex gene regulatory systems. Plant Physiology Jul 165(3):993-947.

We're happy that Dr. Xiuling Shi has finally joined our group. We hope you enjoy your new home.

Congratulations to Patrick Griffin who will be a CURO Fellow in the lab this summer.

Chad was awarded a 3 year fellowship from the National Plant Genome Initiative funded by the NSF. Nice work!

Chad's review on the inheritance of DNA methylation variants in plant genomes is out.

Welcome Kelly Lane to our lab as the first graduate students from the Genetics Department!

We're looking for a new postdoctoral fellow to join our team. See the ad.

The website is up and running and we are looking for people interested in joining our group in Fall 2013.