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different ways:
1. IGBB Fellows
Through its Fellows Program, the
IGBB rewards those faculty who have worked within the IGBB to build a
strong, vibrant molecular biosciences/computational biology research
community at MS State. IGBB Fellows receive not only formal recognition
for their accomplishments, but they are given a voice in many aspects of
IGBB operation including, but not limited to, input on purchases, new hires,
and overall research direction. The IGBB Fellows literally serve as
the Director's Advisory Committee. To be an IGBB Fellow, a faculty member from an academic department
must (1) regularly submit proposals through the IGBB, (2) have had at least one funded external grant (with overhead)
administered through the IGBB, (3) have a record of high-impact scientific
productivity, and (4) have a national/international reputation in his/her
field. IGBB Fellows have full "internal user" access to the HPC² supercomputers and receive HPC²
computer, technical, and administrative support.
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An IGBB Faculty Affiliate is any faculty member in an MS State academic department who (1) conducts research
in the molecular biosciences and/or computational biology and (2) collaborates in some manner with IGBB faculty/staff. Like IGBB Fellows, IGBB Faculty Affiliates are encouraged to submit proposals through the IGBB, but
are not obligated to do so. IGBB Faculty Affiliates generally do not
have HPC² supercomputer access unless they are working on an IGBB
research project. Faculty Affiliates can request access to the HPC²
supercomputers if they are interested in generating data/results for an eventual proposal submission
through the IGBB. Any IGBB Faculty Affiliate that submits and receives an external grant (with
overhead) through the IGBB will be eligible for the IGBB Fellows Program.

Rerooting the evolutionary tree of malaria parasites
IGBB Authors:
Diana C. OutlawPUBLICATION YEAR:
2011IMPACT FACTOR:
10.425CITATION COUNT:
63Outlaw DC, Ricklefs RE (2011) Rerooting the evolutionary tree of malaria parasites.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108(32): 13183-13187.
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1109153108EID:
2-s2.0-80051960846PMID: 21730128
DOWNLOAD PDFABSTRACTMalaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.) have plagued humans for millennia. Less well known are related parasites (Haemosporida), with diverse life cycles and dipteran vectors that infect other vertebrates. Understanding the evolution of parasite life histories, including switches between hosts and vectors, depends on knowledge of evolutionary relationships among parasite lineages. In particular, inferences concerning time of origin and trait evolution require correct placement of the root of the evolutionary tree. Phylogenetic reconstructions of the diversification of malaria parasites from DNA sequences have suffered from uncertainty concerning outgroup taxa, limited taxon sampling, and selection on genes used to assess relationships. As a result, inferred relationships among the Haemosporida have been unstable, and questions concerning evolutionary diversification and host switching remain unanswered. A recent phylogeny placed mammalian malaria parasites, as well as avian/reptilian Plasmodium, in a derived position relative to the avian parasite genera Leucocytozoon and Haemoproteus, implying that the ancestral forms lacked merogony in the blood and that their vectors were non-mosquito dipterans. Bayesian, outgroup-free phylogenetic reconstruction using relaxed molecular clocks with uncorrelated rates instead suggested that mammalian and avian/reptilian Plasmodium parasites, spread by mosquito vectors, are ancestral sister taxa, from which a variety of specialized parasite lineages with modified life histories have evolved.
Dr. Matthew W. 
BrownAssociate Professor
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Professor
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Former Fellows & Affiliates (Position with IGBB; Current Institution)
Jeffrey F.D. Dean (Affiliate; University of Georgia)
Jonas King (Affiliate)
Hongxu Dong (Affiliate; Goldman Sachs, Atlanta)
Terezie Tolar-Peterson (Affiliate; California State University, San Bernadino)
Erdogan Memili (Affiliate; Prairie View A&M University)
Gregory Bohach (Affiliate; retired)
Brian A. Counterman (Affiliate; Auburn University)
Renita Horton (Affiliate; University of Houston)
Xiu-feng "Henry" Wan (Affiliate; University of Missouri)
Din-Pow Ma (Affiliate; retired)
David A. Ray (Fellow; Texas Tech University)
Shane C. Burgess (Fellow & former IGBB Director; University of Arizona)
Fiona M. McCarthy (Fellow; University of Arizona)
Susan M. Bridges (Fellow; retired)
Susan V. Diehl (Affiliate; retired)
James N. Warnock (Affiliate; University of Georgia)
Dragica Jeremic Nikolic (Affiliate; University of Toronto)
Cetin Yuceer (Affiliate; Turkey)
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