Evan Maxwell’s Research mentioned in Nature
Evan Maxwell’s recent comb jellies paper in BMC Genomics was mentioned in a Nature news piece, which was also re-printed in Scientific American.
Carl Zimmer reports on BU Bioinfo Alum Evan Snitkin in Wired Magazine
Check out Carl Zimmer’s report in Wired Magazine about Evan Snitkin’s (PhD ’09) work using genome sequencing to help solve the infectious outbreak mystery at the NIH Clinical Center.
BU Bioinformatics Alumni Featured on Genome Technology’s 2012 List of Top Young Investigators
Congratulations to Tim Reddy (PhD '08) and Evan Snitkin (PhD '09) who have been named to the 2012 list of Genome Technology's Top Young Investigators. The magazine's annual list includes 23 up-and-coming investigators in the genomics field. Prof. Reddy is currently at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, and Dr. Snitkin is a Postdoc Fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). They join several BU Bioinfo alumni who have been listed as Top Young Investigators, including Farren Isaacs (2007), Steven Parker (2010) and Vincent Fusaro (2011).
Detecting Lung Cancer Sooner: Avrum Spira’s Research Featured by BU School of Medicine
Avrum Spira, MD, MSc works to develop molecular tests that detect lung cancer early. "Now," BU School of Medicine writes, "with a $13.7 million grant from the Department of Defense, he is carrying the research forward as leader of a five-year study called Detecting Early Lung Cancer Among Military Personnel (DECAMP)."
Students Present at RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics
Several Bioinformatics students presented at the 2012 RECOMB Conference on Systems Biology and Regulatory Genomics this November in San Francisco. IGERT Fellows, Andy Rampersaud and George Steinhardt, presented a poster, and Antonio Gomes was invited to give a talk about his project, Decoding ChIP-seq with double-binding signal provides site detection with high-resolution and predictions of cooperative interactions.
The RECOMB conference was held from November 12-15, 2012.
ENG News Features Segrè Research
Segrè, "expert in the use of mathematical models to drive biological discovery", Featured by ENG
Bioinformatics Professor Daniel Segre's research is featured in an article titled "New Research Could Help Trace the Source of Bioterror Agents", by Mark Dwortzan, on the Boston University College of Engineering's website.
Bioinformatics Alum Tracks Infectious Outbreak
Evan Snitkin (PhD ’09) works as a postdoc fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the NIH and recently helped solve an infectious outbreak mystery using genome sequencing. Read the NIH press release and get a link to Evan’s paper in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Augustin Luna Receives 2012 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Congratulations to Augustin Luna! Bioinformatics PhD candidate Augustin Luna is one of 37 doctoral students nationwide to receive a 2012 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.
Annual Program Retreat
The 3rd annual Bioinformatics Program Retreat was held on September 7-8 at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts.
Student Presentation: Jasmin Coulombe-Huntington
Jasmin Coulombe-Huntington gave an invited talk at ISMB 2012 in Long Beach California, Regulatory Network Structure as the Dominant Determinant of Transcription Factor Evolutionary Rate in Yeast
