Author: Caroline Coburn Lyman

Regulating Gene Drives – Evan Appleton’s New Paper in Science

Evan Appleton’s work with a multidisciplinary team from Synberc (Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center) has been published ahead of print in Science Xpress: Regulating Gene Drives. The paper has also been written about in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Boston Globe and Nova. Great work Evan!

New lung cancer study in the journal Nature co-authored by Josh Campbell

Joshua Campbell (PhD, ’12) and other researchers from the TCGA Researcher Network have co-authored a study published in the journal Nature. “Comprehensive Molecular Profiling of Lung Adenocarcinoma,” has been gaining a lot of attention this week. As the Analysis Coordinator, Dr. Campbell was a primary contributor to the study.  He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in […]

Congratulations to Chetanya Pandya!

Chetanya is the very first recipient of the Charles DeLisi Doctoral Dissertation Award.  This award will be presented annually to the author of the best doctoral dissertation in the Bioinformatics Program.  It was named after the founder of the Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, and is made possible by a generous gift from Prof. DeLisi.  

Evan Appleton’s New Paper in Nature Methods

Evan Appleton’s work with Doug Densmore’s group in CIDAR (Cross-Disciplinary Integration of Design Automation Research) has been published in the current issue of Nature Methods.  Read it here: Interactive assembly algorithms for molecular cloning.  The paper has been blogged about by Nicole Rusk, and is also featured in the current issue of Nature, in a special synthetic biology section. […]

BU Bioinformatics Admissions and Recruitment Reception

June 3, 2014  from  4:30 – 7 pm LSEB Lobby – Life Science and Engineering Building –  24 Cummington Mall An opportunity for prospective students to learn about the MS and PhD Programs in Bioinformatics, as well as our new MS Program, focusing on bioinformatics for translational medicine. We will have faculty, students and staff […]

Just In: Cell Reports Paper From The Segrè Lab

Read about the dynamics of microbial communities, Metabolic Resource Allocation in Individual Microbes Determines Ecosystem Interactions and Spatial Dynamics, was just published online in Cell Reports.   The Segrè lab project includes collaborators from Chris Marx’s Lab, as well as alumni, faculty and students from @BUBioinfo.