Projects

Clinical metagenomic analysis of tropical diseases. Use of deep sequencing for the characterization of unknown etiological agents that cause upper respiratory infections and febrile illnesses in children and neonates in Cali, Colombia.

Augusto Valderrama-Aguirre Universidad Libre Cali, Colombia, Fredrik Vannberg and King Jordan Georgia Tech University, USA

Genome analysis of a Colombian Sanfilippo syndrome patient.  Characterization of the first complete genome sequence of a Colombian individual in an effort to discern the genetic basis of Sanfillippo syndrome in an Afro-Colombian family.

Augusto Valderrama-Aguirre Universidad Libre Cali, Colombia, Fredrik Vannberg and King Jordan Georgia Tech University, USA

Transcriptome analysis of Uchuva. Characterization and analysis of the leaf transcriptome of Physalis peruviana (Uchuva) in order to identify genetic markers that can be applied to increase crop productivity and quality.

Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez Universidad Nacional de Colombia and NCBI, Luz Stella Barrero Meneses The Plant Molecular Genetics Laboratory at CORPOICA, and Timothy Read Emory University, USA

Computational genomics of Mycobacterium colombiense. Complete sequencing and comparative genomic analysis of M. colombiense in order to understand the genomic determinants of virulence for an emerging opportunistic pathogen endemic to Colombia.

Martha Murcia Aranguren Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez Universidad Nacional de Colombia and NCBI and King Jordan Georgia Tech, USA 

Computational epigenomics of human regulatory elements.  Development and application of novel computational tools and approaches for the functional genomic analysis of chromatin.

Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez Universidad Nacional de Colombia and NCBI, King Jordan Georgia Tech, USA Felipe Garciá Vallejo and Pedro Moreno Universidad del Valle, Colombia