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 staff available for informal discussions about our research, PhD fellowships, MS scholarships, curricula and the admissions process.
Who Should Attend?
Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that draws from biology, systems engineering , chemistry, genetics/genomics , physics, mathematics/statistics and computer science, among others.
Students with a strong background in either the biological or computational sciences are encouraged to attend!
BU Bioinformatics is committed to supporting highly qualified women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, and other individuals who are underrepresented in STEM. Several travel grants are available for outstanding senior undergraduates to travel to Boston to learn about our Program. For more information contact Caroline Lyman at clyman@bu.edu or 617-358-0752.
no registration required
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 NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Since 2009, Sara has overhauled the popular Applications in Bioinformatics course, which introduces graduate and upper-level undergraduate students to bioinformatics theory. She has traveled to national recruiting conferences as a BU representative and she developed a fellowship writing workshop for first and second year students. Sara also mentored a high school student through the Education Cooperative (TEC) Unpaid Summer Internship Program and regularly participates in Graduate Women in Science and Engineer (GWISE) events.
Sara’s research focus is on the bioinformatics analysis of host-virus interactions. She has presented her work at the Chemical and Biological Defense Science and Technology Conference, the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and recently received a travel scholarship from the Swiss Foundation for Excellence and Talent in Biomedical Research to present her work at the European Conference on Computational Biology.
Sara’s dedication to the Program and enthusiasm for bioinformatics make her the ideal candidate to receive the very first Student Service Award.
Congratulations Sara!
2013 Bioinformatics Program Retreat
The Bioinformatics Program is holding the annual retreat from October 4-5 at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole.
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 Chris Nogiec in PLOS ONE
New Publication: Chris Nogiec had his paper published in the August 5th issue of PLOS ONE. Read the paper, To Supplement or Not to Supplement: A Metabolic Network Framework for Human Nutritional Supplements
IBSB 2013 Award for Best Poster Goes To Daniel Gusenleitner
Daniel Gusenleitner received the Award for Best Poster Presentation at the 13th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IBSB 2013), for his poster, Genomic Signatures of Carcinogenicity. Congratulations Dan!
Read The Chaos Paper From The Segrè Lab
The dynamics of hybrid metabolic-genetic oscillators, from the Segrè lab, is the top research highlight on Chaos.
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 of Tokyo, and the International Research and Training Program on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in the Bioinformatics Center at Kyoto University.
