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 PRESS RELEASES
 
2008
Mar 24 National Tuberculosis Archive could stimulate NM research, investment.New Mexico Business Weekly reports on the promise and potential of a National Tuberculosis Archive.
Mar 3 Press Release - NCGR hosts Symposium on Next Generation Sequencing Technologies and Applications
Feb 25 Press Release - NCGR Software Enables Identification of Mutated Genes Unique to Mesothelioma Tumors
Jan 09 Press Release - NCGR pleased to now announce the addition of Ernest F. Retzel, Ph. D. as Program Leader.
2007
Nov 19 Press Release - Genome Sequencing Center Opens in Santa Fe
Sept 26 Press Release - Texas Tech and NCGR Sign Agreement to Increase Genome Research
Aug 3 Press Release - NCGR offers two new services: Solexa sequencing and pipelining
Feb 8 Press Release - NCGR hosts the Third Annual New Mexico Bioinformatics Symposium
Jan 29 Press Release - Partnership Gives NNMC Students Chance to Conduct Gene Research
Jan 12 Press Release - New Mexico Tech and NCGR join to create the New Mexico Genome Sequencing Center
  2006
Dec 5 NCGR Presentation & Workshop - Integrating Enterprise Data with Semantic Technologies
Nov 3 Press Release - Domenici Learns More About Mental Health Genome Research at Santa Fe Center
Oct 9 Press Release - NCGR Appoints Scott Wolff as Director, Software Engineering
Sep 15 Press Release - NCGR Recognized by Deals of Distinction
Aug 2 Press Release - NCGR hosts summer internships for science students from New Mexico
Mar 29 Press Release - MIND Institute and National Center for Genome Resources to Decode Mystery of Schizophrenia Genetics
Mar 27 Press Release - NCGR Hosts the Second Annual Bioinformatics Symposium.
Mar 3 Press Release - International Team Proposes National Tuberculosis Archive: The First Comprehensive and Integrated Biological and Informatic Resource for a World-Wide Infectious Disease.
Jan 18 Press Release - NCGR Elects New Chair and Expands the Board of Directors
  2005
Dec 14 Press Release - NCGR collaborates with the Ohio State University, DOE Joint Genome Institute, University of Tennessee and 454 Life Sciences to sequence the genome of the major pathogen of vegetable crops
Dec 12 Press Release - Senior staff expansion at NCGR
Oct 20 Press Release - NSF Soybean subcontract
Sep 28 NCGR, CSHL, and TIGR announce NSF funding for semantic web development for plant biologists
Sep 21 NCGR, Duke Medical Center, Henry Ford Hospital, Eli Lilly & Co., INCAPS, and ProSanos to develop diagnostic tests for sepsis and pneumonia
Aug 29 NCGR and USDA-ARS Announce Support for Continued Development of the Legume Information System
Aug 29 NCGR, USDA-ARS and CCGB announce collaboration to initiate a Legume Information Network
Aug 22 NCGR Releases Open Source Version of ISYS
Jun 22 Baxter at 2nd Int'l Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
Jun 20 Behind the White Coat: Stephen Kingsmore
Feb 16 Complex Networks Analysis Enables Detection of WMD Programs

  2004
Oct 8 deCODE Awarded $24 million by NIH to Study Genetics of Infectious Disease Susceptibility and Vaccine Response
July 8 NMSU Awarded Over $3 Million to Encourage Biomedical Research
May 4 NCGR appoints Stephen F. Kingsmore as President
May 3 NCGR appoints Susan Baxter as Chief Operating Officer
May 3 NCGR Awarded $1.2M by USDA for Continuation of the Model Plant Initiave

  2002
July 23 National Center for Genome Resources Receives DOE, "Genomes to Life", Grant Award
May 28 NCGR appoints Geert Wenes, Ph.D., as new Program Leader of Bioinformatics

  2001
Nov 8 Miguel Rios, Jr., Ph.D., Elected Chairman of the NCGR Board of Directors
July 12 Miguel Rios, Jr., Ph.D., Appointed Interim President and CEO
Jun 13 NCGR Launches Users Release of ISYS
Jun 8 NCGR Receives Project Grants From NSF, Agriculture Group, and NMSU
Jan 12 NCGR Releases ISYS: New Platform to Integrate Bioinformatics Tools, Databases

  2000
Nov 8 NCGR and PRI Agree to Collaborate
Nov 7 William Beavis Appointed Chief Scientific Officer
July 17 Noble Foundation, NCGR Release Second Round of Medicago Truncatula ESTs
Jun 6 Six Minority Undergraduate Students Receive NCGR Scholarships/Internships
Jun 1 Valuable Arabidopsis Data Released Through Unique Public-Private Partnership
May 1 NCGR, College of Santa Fe to Hold Awards Ceremony for Student Sculpture Exhibition
Apr 26 NCGR Dedicates Research Facility with Festivities for 250 Guests
Apr 17 Noble Foundation, NCGR Release First Round of Medicago Truncatula ESTs
Apr 12 Seminar Series Brings Leading Biological Researchers to Santa Fe
Jan 27 Four Prominent Researchers Named to Science Advisory Board