Clemson University Genomics Institute

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Toxicology and environmenal health science. Specifically, the mechanisms of protection and/or resistance organisms develop when exposed to chemicals.
Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/biosci/faculty/bain/index.htm

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Toxicant-induced changes in gene expression mediated through the nuclear receptors. Also, gene expression via microarray data, genome annotation.
Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/biosci/faculty/baldwin/index.htm/

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Genetics & Biochemistry
Home Page: http://www.cottonmarker.org
Research Interests: As a postdoc at CUGI (2003-2006), I have been involved in studying the structural genomics of the plan species Mimulus ( Mimulus Project Page ). Due to tremendous ecological and phenotypic diversity, this genus is widely used as a model flowering plant system for ecological and evolutionary genetic studies. This study is important for understanding the fundamentals of speciation in plants, and in general, will help to understand the fundamentals of how life evolved. To facilitate the genomic analysis of speciation and comparative genomic studies in Mimulus, we used high information content fingerprinting (HICF) of BAC to construct physical maps for two species of the genus Mimulus (M. guttatus and M. lewisii). Construction of HICF-based physical maps integrated with genetic maps, will allow the precise positioning and study of the various genes of interest in Mimulus and in plants in general, including those involved in speciation, sterility, adaptation, to name only a few.

Currently I have been involved as a Principal Investigator in the development of the Cotton Marker Database (CMD; http://www.cottonmarker.org). Web and database hosting for the CMD is provided by CUGI. The applications of microsatellite (SSR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) molecular markers are numerous (e.g., gene tagging and genome mapping, genetic diversity studies, variety protection, introgression of novel genes into breeding germplasm). Collecting all publicly available cotton SSR and SNP markers into a centralized, readily accessible web-enabled database provides a more efficient utilization of the resources and will help accelerate basic and applied genetic and genome research in Gossypium spp.

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Animal & Veterinary Science
Research Interests: Expression profiling of ecosystem in response to climate change.
Home Page: http://face.env.duke.edu/invpage.cfm?id=249

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Research Interests: Water Quality, aquaculture, and biotechnology.
Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/agbioeng/agmech/brune.htm

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Genetics and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Cell communication and gene expression via microarray analysis.
Home Page: http://www.chenlab.clemson.edu/

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Genetics and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Current areas of interest include: gene/QTL networks underlying the drought-stress response in rice and maize, evolution and function of deletion-resistant gene networks following whole genome duplication in Arabidopsis, genetic improvement of ethanol yield from biofuel crops (sorghum, maize, sugarcane, Miscanthus, switch grass), and oyster genomics.
Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/genbiochem/faculty/afeltus.html

Organization: Clemson University, Computing and Information Technology
Research Interests: Single-sign-on and federated authentication architectures, transparent authorization, secure videoconferencing and voice-over-ip, end-to-end application performance, grid computing, and collaboration tools for virtual organizations.

Organization: Clemson University, Director of Clemson University Genomics Institute
Research Interests: Sequencing, physical mapping, bioinformatics, etc.
Home Page: http://www.genome.clemson.edu/

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Genetics and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Molecular population genetics and genetic evolution.
Home Page: http://people.clemson.edu/~amylr

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Research Interests: How historic biogeographic and contemporary ecological processes shape patterns of organismal diversity in the world's oceans.
Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/biosci/faculty/marko/lab/

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Research Interests: The impact of human activities and environmental degradation on ocean organisms, and identifying the evolutionary and ecological forces that have driven the diversity of life history modes in marine organisms.
Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/biosci/faculty/moran/

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/biosci/faculty/mount/
Research Interests: The Okeanos laboratory (Mount lab) is dedicated to advancing the materials science of marine invertebrates thorough innovation of novel materials that are based on an advancing our understanding of cellular and structural biology of marine life. This highly successful approach has lead to our founding of a new field of study, termed cellular biomineralization and our applied research has created novel solutions and innovations to the problems of marine biofouling and anti-corrosion coatings and fibers.

The Eastern oyster has proven to be an ideal organism to study biomineralization, as many of its cellular mechanisms are analogous to those observed in vertebrate bone systems. Our five year objective is to validate our pioneering model (see Science 304:297-299) of cellular mediated calcification in bivalve mollusks.

The Eastern Oyster genome is key to discerning the rate of abrupt climate change in the South Carolina coastal marine environment. Towards this aim, Okeanos has participated in the establishment of a state-wide marine science consortium that is focused on global climate change. This is an issue of critical importance given the fact that our nation's coastal cities, particularly Charleston, South Carolina, will soon be inundated due to the accelerated melting of the Earth's ice caps.

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Comparative immunobiology, immunotoxicology & immunopharmacology, neuroendocrine-immunology, tumor immunology, and marine biology & oceanography.
Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/entox/people/cdrice.htm

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Genetics and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Mechanism of meiotic recombination, protein biochemistry, structure-function relations, protein-nucleic acid interations, and protein-protein interactions
Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/genbiochem/faculty/msehorn.html

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Genetics and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Environmental genomics, integrated genomic frameworks, and the characterization of genes and genomic regions associated with environmental adaptation.
Home Page: http://people.clemson.edu/~jtmkns/

Organization: Clemson University, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Toxicology of environmental pollutants in aquatic ecosystems.
Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/entox/people/pvdhurk.htm