The Core Facility for Bioinformatics held its annual Bioinformatics Training and Internship Program (BTIP) on June 23 to August 8, 2025. The BTIP is a virtual training in introductory biology, genomics, and bioinformatics that provides supervised and hands-on experience doing research or infrastructure development on real bioinformatics projects. The mid-year activity is open to students and […]
Proteomics in Focus: Leveraging LC-MS Technology for Precision Research and Diagnostics
Through conducting this webinar, PPMF aims to promote and supplement the technological advancements in this field. This event will involve short lectures from three experts about their previous and current research works.
2nd PMN conference co-hosted by PPMF and DOST-FNRI
The Philippine Metabolomics Network (PMN) with DOST-FNRI and PGC-PPMF co-hosted its 2nd PMN Conference on July 25, 2025.
Dr. Michael Zaragoza’s talk at PGC on Cardiac Disease Modeling
Dr. Michael Vincent Zaragoza is a Filipino American physician-scientist and a 20-year faculty member at the University of California Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine. His research and clinical work center on cardiogenomics, particularly the genetic basis of cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia.
IB and PGC-hosted seminar on Cardiac Disease Modeling (Dr. Michael Zaragoza)
The Institute of Biology and the Philippine Genome Center is co-hosting a seminar titled “Cardiac Disease Modeling Using Patient-derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and single-cell RNA-sequencing” featuring Dr. Michael Zumaraga, Associate Professor from the UCI Cardiogenomics Research Program. The talk will be held on July 16, 2025, 10:00 am PST, at Rm 250, IB building, UP Diliman.
Decoding 1,001 Philippine traditional rice varieties (TRVs)
The joint initiative stands to deliver a huge amount of data from the genome sequences of the 1001 Philippine TRVs. This will be made available to the public via the PH Rice GDB. From strengthening local expertise in crop genomics and bioinformatics, to providing more research opportunities—the program anticipates its potential in increasing and strengthening research output and capacity. The 1001 Rice Genome (1k1RG) Program is a promise to the future of rice in the Philippines as it ultimately aims to benefit farmers through accelerating the improvement and production of rice varieties.
Biobanking validation workshop with the Philippine Cancer Center
The Biobank Core Facility of PGC hosted the two-day “Biobanking Validation Workshop of the Technical Report on the Establishing of PCC’s Molecular and Genomics Research Laboratory, Bobank, and Tumor Bank” on April 1-2, 2025, at the Institute of Biology (IB), University of the Philippines, Diliman. Participants reviewed the summary of the technical report that highlighted […]
Bioinformatics Training and Internship Program 2025
Apply Now: BTIP 2025 The Philippine Genome Center (PGC) Core Facility for Bioinformatics is inviting Filipino college students and young professionals in science and engineering for an online training and internship program in bioinformatics. This will be held during the mid-year period from June 23 to August 1, 2025, and conducted fully online. Interested individuals […]
Operations schedule for December 2024
Please be reminded of the following schedule of operations for the DNA Sequencing Core Facility (DSCF), Protein, Proteomics, and Metabolomics Facility (PPMF), and Clinical Genomics Laboratory (CGL): Last day of sample submissions (previously announced): November 29, 2024 Resumption of full services and acceptance of samples: January 6. 2025 | Monday
PGC’s Immunogenomic Surveillance Program (IGSP) project 1 completion: Genomic and Clinical Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Variant P.3 in the Philippines
Nationwide genomic biosurveillance The routine genomic biosurveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in the Philippines through the Philippine Genome Center (PGC), in coordination with the Department of Health (DOH) – Epidemiology Bureau and the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) Task Force on COVID-19 Variants began during the last week of December 2020 with the confirmation of VoC (Variant of […]