{"389061":{"#nid":"389061","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Petit Faculty Win Sigma Xi Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Borodovsky and Francesca Storici, faculty members of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, have been selected as Sigma Xi award winners for 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBorodovsky, Regents\u2019 Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, won the Sustained Research Award, and will present highlights of his research at the Sigma Xi dinner on April 15, when he\u2019ll be honored along with the rest of this year\u2019s award winners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Borodovsky\u2019s works on development of machine-learning algorithms for computational analysis of biological sequences: DNA, RNA and proteins. His research group\u2019s primary focus is on prediction of protein-coding genes and regulatory sites in genomic DNA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStorici, associate professor in the School of Biology, won the Best Faculty Paper award for research that appeared in the journal Nature. \u201cWe are interested in the relationship between RNA and DNA in the context of genome stability,\u201d says Storici, whose group studied how RNA can directly repair DNA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe discovered that cells can use their own RNA molecules to heal DNA double-strand breaks, which are the most dangerous lesions in DNA,\u201d she adds. \u201cThis study has revealed a previously unknown mechanism of recombination between RNA and DNA. Now, much work is ongoing to characterize how this mechanism works and where it is prevalent.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society, a non-profit honor society, comprises about 60,000 scientists and engineers affiliated with more than 500 chapters at universities and colleges, government laboratories and industry research centers around the world. More than 200 winners of the Nobel Prize have been Sigma Xi members.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Borodovsky and Storici honored by Scientific Research Society"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBorodovsky and Storici honored by Scientific Research Society\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Borodovsky and Storici honored by Scientific Research Society"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2015-03-19 16:58:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:00","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"389041":{"id":"389041","type":"image","title":"Mark Borodovsky","body":null,"created":"1449246288","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:48","changed":"1475894151","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:35:51","alt":"Mark Borodovsky","file":{"fid":"75497","name":"borodovsky_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/borodovsky_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/borodovsky_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":296726,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/borodovsky_0.jpg?itok=M70DSjIg"}},"389051":{"id":"389051","type":"image","title":"Francesca Storici","body":null,"created":"1449246288","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:48","changed":"1475894349","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:09","alt":"Francesca Storici","file":{"fid":"75498","name":"original_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/original_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/original_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":203327,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/original_0.jpg?itok=PW6wBIC4"}}},"media_ids":["389041","389051"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}