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Joshua Loving Wins Award at the 2016 BICoB Conference
Josh Loving presented at the 8th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB) in Las Vegas earlier this month, and his paper received the award for first place. Bit-Parallel Alignment with Substitution Scoring was co-authored by Beth Becker and Prof. Gary Benson. Congratulations!
Adam Labadorf Successfully Defends his Dissertation
Congratulations to Adam Labadorf from Rick Myers’ lab on the successful defense of his dissertation, “Characterizing the Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and Pan-Neurodegenerative Gene Expression Signature with RNA Sequencing.” Great job, Adam!
Scott Mottarella Successfully Defends his Dissertation
Congratulations to Scott Mottarella from Sandor Vajda’s lab on the successful defense of his dissertation, “Computational Prediction and Analysis of Macromolecular Interactions.” Well done, Scott!
Allyson Byrd’s PERSPECTIVE in the Journal Science
Allyson Byrd and Julie Segre’s paper was featured in Science last month. Read it here: Adapting Koch’s postulates
Read Ali Zomorrodi’s New Book: Optimization Methods in Metabolic Networks
Just Published: Ali Zomorrodi, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Segrè lab, is the co-author of Optimization Methods in Metabolic Networks, a tutorial on the computational tools that use mathematical optimization concepts for analyzing metabolic networks.
Congratulations Vinay Kartha!
Congratulations Vinay Kartha! Vinay was awarded an NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship from the NIDCR.
Chris Jacobs Successfully Defends his Dissertation
Congratulations to Chris Jacobs from Daniel Segrè’s lab on the successful defense of his dissertation, “Functional and Evolutionary Implications of In Silico Gene Deletions Studies.” Great job, Chris!
Read Allyson Byrd’s New Paper in Cell
Allyson Byrd’s work at the NIH was featured in the journal Cell last month. Read it here: Microbiota-Dependent Sequelae of Acute Infection Compromise Tissue-Specific Immunity
Evan Appleton Successfully Defends his Dissertation
Congratulations to Evan Appleton from Doug Densmore’s lab on the successful defense of his dissertation, “A Design-Build-Test-Learn Tool for Synthetic Biology.” Well done, Evan!