Read Mike Quintin’s New Publication
Read Mike Quintin’s paper in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology about the software he developed working in the Densmore lab, in collaboration with Farren Isaacs’ (BU Bioinformatics alum) team for design automation in genome engineering.
Evan Appleton is Awarded the 2016 Charles DeLisi Doctoral Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Evan!
The Charles DeLisi Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually to the author of an outstanding 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.
Read Vinay Kartha’s New Publication
Read Vinay's paper on some of his work on identifying fibroblast markers in oral cancers, in collaboration with Maria Trojanowska's lab PloS One!
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0154645
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!
Vinay Kartha Wins First Place Poster Prize
More congratulations to Vinay Kartha! Vinay received the First Place Award for his poster at the BU Clinical and Translational Science Institute (BU-CTSI) Fifth Annual Translational Research Symposium, held on March 28.
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.
