Montana INBRE Research Working Groups
MT INBRE sponsors three research working groups that have developed from the research conducted by the MT INBRE Project Leaders and Research Faculty.
Bioinformatics Users Group (BUG)
The MT INBRE Bioinformatics Core hosts monthly seminars on bioinformatics-related workshops and emerging technologies. BUG also hosts a GoogleGroup with resource pages and software application information, as well as a listserve and discussion group. For more information, to request a seminar topic, or to be added to the BUG listserve, please contact Kate McInnerney at 406-994-5666 or go to http://groups.google.com/group/msu-bioinformatics.
Big Sky Yeast Group
The Big Sky Yeast Group, administered by Dr. Linda Hyman, Vice Provost and Director of the WWAMI Program in the Division of Health Sciences at Montana State University in Bozeman, hosts national speakers at meetings attended by MT INBRE Project Leaders and Research Faculty as well as other interested faculty and students. Linda Hyman For more information please contact Dr. Hyman at 406-994-4411.
Environmental Health Working Group
The Environmental Health Working Group, initiated through the work of Dr. Tim Ford (MT INBRE PI and Department Head, Department of Microbiology at Montana State University in Bozeman) and Mari Eggers, Project Leader at Little Big Horn College, involves participants from several MT INBRE Network partners, including Montana’s seven tribal colleges, representatives from reservation communities, faculty from Montana State University-Northern and faculty and students from other Network institutions. Allen Harmsen For more information please contact Dr. Allen Harmsen

