Author: Caroline Coburn Lyman
Congratulations to Daniel Segrè, Professor
Congratulations to Daniel Segrè who has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor! You can read the official announcement here.
Read Vinay Kartha’s New Paper in Molecular Cancer Research
Vinay Kartha’s work in Stefano Monti’s lab is featured on the cover of the current issue of Molecular Cancer Research. Read it here: A YAP/TAZ-Regulated Molecular Signature is Associated with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Read Allyson Byrd’s New Paper in Genome Biology
Allyson Byrd’s work in Julie Segre’s lab at the NIH was featured in Genome Biology last month. Read it here: Integrating host gene expression and the microbiome to explore disease pathogenesis
Emily Speranza Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Emily Speranza has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is highly competitive: this year only 2,000 fellowships were awarded out of more than 16,000 applicants. Congratulations Emily!
Read Vinay Kartha and Adam Labadorf’s New Paper in BMC Medical Genomics
Vinay Kartha and Adam Labadorf’s work in Rick Myers’ lab has been published in the new issue of BMC Medical Genomics. Read it here: miR-10b-5p expression in Huntington’s disease brain relates to age of onset and the extent of striatal involvement
Read Farren Isaacs’ report in Nature
Farren Isaacs (PhD, ’04) and his team at Yale have published a report in the journal Nature. The report, “Recoded organisms engineered to depend on synthetic amino acids,” was recently featured on All Things Considered and in the New Yorker. Dr. Isaacs is an Assistant Professor at Yale, in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology department.
Nacho Caballero’s New Paper in BMC Genomics
Congratulations to Nacho Caballero for his work in John Connor’s lab. Their BMC Genomics article was published online November 6th and has already been given the “Highly Accessed” designation. Read it here: Lassa and Marburg viruses elicit distinct host transcriptional responses early after infection
Teresa Wang is awarded the 2014 Student Service Award
Teresa Wang received the 2014 Student Service Award at the Bioinformatics Program Retreat held on October 3-4 in Portsmouth, NH. Prof. Tullius presented the award for Teresa’s outstanding contribution and service to the Bioinformatics Program. Congratulations Teresa!
Sara Garamszegi’s Paper on the immune response to Ebola
Sara Garamszegi’s work with John Connor and Brandon Xia has been published in the new issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Read it here: Transcriptional Correlates of Disease Outcome in Anticoagulant-Treated Non-Human Primates Infected with Ebolavirus.
BU Bioinfo students receive IBSB 2014 Poster Prizes
Allyson Byrd received the First Place Poster Prize for her presentation, “Strain Tracking of Organisms in Metagenomic Samples of the Skin Microbiome,” during the International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in Berlin. Vinay Kartha, Amy Li and Mike Quintin took home the Second Place Poster Prize for their Challenge Project in Stefano Monti’s lab, “Assembling […]