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Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb, Wilfrid Laurier University
Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb, an Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, is widely published in the area of genome research.
Genomes are a complete map of all genetic information or hereditary material possessed by an organism.
Using information from all publicly available microbial genomes (tiny or micro organisms, often classed as bacteria), Professor Moreno-Hagelsieb aims to determine how genes are organized into functional modules, or how genes work together to attain a particular biological function.
Because of the many microbial genome projects, there is a great deal of information about the existence of many genes but there is little evidence as to what their functions or products are.
In addition, because genes within species continue to evolve, it is crucial to be able to determine if changes have a functional consequence.
Using SHARCNET, Professor Moreno-Hagelsieb is seeking to classify all genes from most stable to least stable.
His research has applications to the development of antimicrobial agents and for finding the most efficient genes for pathway engineering, which has applications to environmental clean up.
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