Author: Caroline Coburn Lyman

SACNAS 2013

Harold Gomez, Teresa Wang and Prof. Ulla Hansen represented BU Bioinformatics in San Antonio at the Annual SACNAS National Conference.

New Publication By John Brothers And Kahkeshan Hijazi

Congratulations to John Brothers and Kahkeshan Hijazi for their work in Avi Spira’s lab. Their BMC Medicine article was published online July 19 and has already been given the “Highly Accessed” designation.  Bridging the clinical gaps: genetic, epigenetic and transcriptomic biomarkers for the early detection of lung cancer in the post-National Lung Screening Trial era.

Allyson Byrd – Best Poster Winner At ISMB/ECCB

Congratulations to Allyson Byrd who won a best poster award at ISMB/ECCB in Berlin. She presented the IGERT Challenge Project poster, Clinical Pathoscope: An alignment and filtering pipeline for rapid pathogen identification in unassembled, next-generation sequencing data. Allyson and her team members Joseph Perez-Rogers and Kylee Bergin worked on their Challenge Project with Prof. Evan […]

Nature publishes paper from Galagan Lab

Six BU Bioinfo students in Prof. James Galagan’s Lab were part of a group that had their research published online today in Nature, Anna Lyubetskaya, Elham Azizi, Antonio Gomes, Irina Glotova, Wen-Han Yu and Jonathan Dreyfuss. Read the paper, The Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulatory network and hypoxia.

Bioinformatics Students Presenting at ISMB 2013

Allyson Byrd and Anna Lyubetskaya will be presenting at the ISMB/ECCB 2013, in Berlin from July 21-23. Allyson was selected to give an 8 minute presentation of her group’s IGERT Challenge Project poster, and Anna will be giving a satellite talk on her research on the regulatory network of TB transcription factors.

2013 IBSB in Kyoto

More than 20 students and faculty from BU Bioinformatics will be traveling to Kyoto this summer to attend the 13th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.  The IBSB 2013 is part of an international collaboration between Bioinformatics Graduate Program at BU, the Computational Systems Biology training program in Germany, the Human Genome Center at the University […]