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Detecting Lung Cancer Sooner: Avrum Spira’s Research Featured by BU School of Medicine
Avrum Spira, MD, MSc works to develop molecular tests that detect lung cancer early. “Now,” BU School of Medicine writes, “with a $13.7 million grant from the Department of Defense, he is carrying the research forward as leader of a five-year study called Detecting Early Lung Cancer Among Military Personnel (DECAMP).” View the full story […]
Students Present at RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics
Several Bioinformatics students presented at the 2012 RECOMB Conference on Systems Biology and Regulatory Genomics this November in San Francisco. IGERT Fellows, Andy Rampersaud and George Steinhardt, presented a poster, and Antonio Gomes was invited to give a talk about his project, Decoding ChIP-seq with double-binding signal provides site detection with high-resolution and predictions of […]
Bioinformatics Alum Tracks Infectious Outbreak
Evan Snitkin (PhD ’09) works as a postdoc fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the NIH and recently helped solve an infectious outbreak mystery using genome sequencing. Read the NIH press release and get a link to Evan’s paper in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Augustin Luna Receives 2012 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Congratulations to Augustin Luna! Bioinformatics PhD candidate Augustin Luna is one of 37 doctoral students nationwide to receive a 2012 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.
Student Presentation: Badri Vardarajan
Badri Vardarajan, from Prof. Lindsay Farrer’s Biomedical Genetics (link) group, presented a poster, Identification of gene-gene interactions for Alzheimer disease using co-operative game theory (pop-up when available), at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease – AAIC 2011 in Paris in July. AAIC 2011 drew a record-breaking number of dementia scientists to Paris to share the […]
Student Seminar: Richard Park
Speaker: Richard Park Advisers: Peter Park & Simon Kasif Title: Seqeyes: A multi-scale interactive visualization tool for structural variations ABTRACT Genomic structural variations (SV) are known to play an important role in cancer and other diseases. Next-generation sequencing is a key technology for the identification of such variations, but current data and algorithms yield many […]
Bioinformatics Student Sara Garamszegi Selected as Fellow for 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Congratulations to Sara Garamszegi! Sara has been selected as one of the fellows in the prestigious 2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP.)
C&EN News Features Tullius Research
A recent article in C&NNews titled “Putting DNA in a Bind” prominently featured BU Bioinformatics Interim Director and Professor of Chemistry Tom Tullius and his group for their use of hydroxyl radical cleavage. This process was developed in the Tullius lab. The Chemistry department acknowledges this exciting achievement on its website, as well. Read the […]
Boston University Bioinformatics researcher Avrum Spira lauded for leading-edge lung cancer research efforts
November 17, 2010: Uniting Against Lung Cancer (Uniting) announces the “Caine Halter Hope Now Award for Lung Cancer Research.” This year’s recipient is Avrum Spira, M.D., M.Sc., Associate Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director, Translational Bioinformatics Program, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Boston University. The annual Hope Now Award is intended for […]
PhD Candidate Stephanie Schneider Chosen for Oral Distinction at GSI Research Symposium
BU Bioinformatics PhD candidate Stephanie Schneider was chosen for oral distinction and gave a talk at the GSI Research Symposium, held on October 6, 2010. Ms. Schneider was chosen based on her abstract: Improving the Interpretation of Affymetrix GeneChip Data Using Coefficient of Concordance and Graph Theory A great deal of gene expression data is […]