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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 […]

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.