Center for Genomic Medicine Projects
Current Projects
Healthy Nevada Project
The Healthy Nevada Project is a population health study aggregating the health determinants: genetic, environmental, behavioural, socio-economic, and healthcare to understand and improve health outcomes.
National Institute Of Health
TBD
Gilead
TBD
SMBHAI
TBD
NOVO NORDISK
TBD
Past Projects
Transcriptomic Adaptations to Nitrogen Limitation
Nitrogen limitation can affect the genome architecture of organisms over geologic time, but what are the contemporary adaptations to these long-term selective pressures? This work investigates the effects of nitrogen limitation on the primary transcriptome of Prochlorococcus  MED4 (in collaboration with The Chisholm Lab, MIT)
Project Lead: Robert Read
Molecular Responses of Diatoms to UV Exposure
Diatoms in the southern ocean experience tremendous environmental stress from UV exposure. This work investigates the effects of UV exposure on the transcriptome of Corethron hystrix to enable gene discovery.
Project Leads: Robert Read and Iva Neveux
Technology Development
Multiplexed real-time microbial growth measurments, usually performed in small volumes in 96-well plates, are extremely powerful for understanding microbial growth rates under different environmental conditions. When these data are paired with molecular-based tools, results can be even more powerful, but are restricted to sample volume. Scaling up in volume for molecular analyses in serium vials and balch-tubes for studying anaerobic metabolisms requires laborious and tedious manual measurements. We are developing a real-time microbial growth quantification instrument using open-source, software driven automation, remote visualization, and data aquisition. We are currently beta-testing.
Project Leads: Dave Vuono, Bruce Lipp (AIC) and Carl Staub
Other Past Projects
CONTACT
Joseph Grzymski, Ph.D.
Research Director, Director of Genomic Medicine
joe.grzymski@dri.edu
LAB LOCATION
Desert Research Institute
2215 Raggio Parkway
Reno, NV 89512
DIVISION
Earth and Ecosystem Sciences