Alfred University is one of only 21 institutions in the country to be selected for the federal Joint Genome Institution (JGI) Undergraduate Research Program in Microbial Genome Collaboration.What that means, explains Jean Cardinale, professor of biology in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, is Alfred University students will have a unique opportunity to participate in ground-breaking research: sequencing the genetic code of microbes.
For the Joint Genome Institute, selecting just 21 schools to participate was difficult because of the higher-than-anticipated response.
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