Author: Caroline Coburn Lyman
Hunting for Viruses in the French Amazon
by Nacho Caballero Pasteur Institute, Cayenne, French Guiana I have spent the last month working in a research lab in the Pasteur Institute in Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana, and also its largest city (population 60,000). Although it is technically part of France (the local currency is the euro), getting around here […]
Congratulations to Evan Maxwell
Evan received a 2014 NIH Graduate Student Research Award (NGSRA) for his poster in the Bioinformatics/Structural Biology category, Informing Model Organism Selection for Human Disease Research through Evolutionary Profiling. The award, which comes with a $1000 travel prize, was presented at the 10th Annual NIH Graduate Student Research Symposium. Evan is part of the BU-NIH […]
Communicating Science Workshop
Instructors from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University will be conducting Improvisation for Scientists and Distilling Your Message workshops for students in the BU Bioinformatics Program on January 31. Participants will take part in exercises and breakout sessions aimed at helping them connect with different audiences. The Alda Center, along […]
Bioinformatics Program Holiday Party
The Bioinformatics Program Holiday Party will be held at Moksa in Central Square on December 12 at 5:00 PM.
Daniel Gusenleitner – Best Poster Winner
Dan Gusenleitner received the 1st place award in the Biomedical Student Poster Competition at the Superfund Research Program (SRP) Annual Meeting in October for his poster, Rodent-based Toxicogenomic Models of Hepatocarcinogenicity. The 2013 SRP Meeting was held at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from October 16-17. Congratulations Dan!
Watch Evan Snitkin on Frontline
If you missed Evan Snitkin (PhD ’09) on PBS’ Frontline, you can watch Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria here.
Farren Isaacs’ Genomically Recoded Organisms paper
Farren Isaacs’ (PhD, ’04) paper in Science entitled “Genomically recoded organisms expand biological functions,” has been gaining worldwide attention this week. You can read the paper here. Dr. Isaacs is an Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale.
October 23rd: Admissions and Recruitment Reception
October 23, 2013 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, current students, and […]
Sara Garamszegi is awarded the first Student Service Award
Sara Garamszegi received the first Student Service Award at the 2013 Bioinformatics Program Retreat. The award was presented by Prof. Tullius for Sara’s outstanding contribution and service to the Bioinformatics Program. Sara entered the Program in the fall of 2009 as an IGERT Fellow, and in 2011 was awarded a three year fellowship by the […]
2013 Bioinformatics Program Retreat
The Bioinformatics Program is holding the annual retreat from October 4-5 at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole.