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Rob Patro has secured a grant from NIH to enhance computational methods for long-read RNA sequencing, technology that is crucial for investigating disease mechanisms, developing new drugs and identifying biomarkers.

This prestigious honor recognizes, incentivizes and fosters collaborations between faculty at UMDCP and UMDB.

The work is funded by a $77,500 seed grant from the UMD Brain and Behavior Institute.

Supported by a USDA grant, two UMIACS researchers have teamed up to study the corn earworm’s growing resistance to non-chemical pesticides.

The cross-institutional project, which uses machine learning to analyze wearable sensor data, could lead to more accurate and earlier diagnoses of people suffering from Parkinson’s.

The funding supports groundbreaking work in the characterization of microbial enzymes and the development of novel wearable devices for monitoring gut health.

Sponsored by NSF, the program exposes visiting undergraduates to interdisciplinary training needed to process and analyze large scale genomic datasets.

He plans to remain active, continuing his longstanding commitment to supporting key research endeavors and exploring potential collaborations.

Brantley Hall’s lab develops novel tools that can measure gut microbes in real time.

The research funding comes from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic effort launched in 2015 by Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan.