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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
Bioinformatics Hosts 2012 International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
The BU Bioinformatics Graduate Program hosted the 2012 International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from July 22-26. The IBSB, focuses almost exclusively on student research, and has been held annually since the first workshop in Berlin in August of 2001.
Bioinformatics SoS 2012 held on June 6, 2012
The 5th Annual BU Bioinformatics Program Student-Organized Symposium was held on June 6, 2012 in the Life Science Building. The event featured five incredible scientists, including BU Bioinfo alumnus Dr. Martin Frith, who is currently a Research Scientist at the Computational Biology Research Center in Tokyo.
Bioinformatics Faculty Member Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Congratulations to Prof. Jim Collins who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more
BIOINFORMATICS Social
Lucky Strike Lanes & Lounge • Friday • March 23 • 6:30-8:30
Student Presentation: Badri Vardarajan
Badri Vardarajan, from Prof. Lindsay Farrer’s Biomedical Genetics (link) group, presented a poster, Identification of gene-gene interactions for Alzheimer disease using co-operative game theory (pop-up when available), at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease - AAIC 2011 in Paris in July.
AAIC 2011 drew a record-breaking number of dementia scientists to Paris to share the latest ideas, thoughts and theories in the field. Breaking studies captured global media attention as the world's leading experts, explored innovative ways to further Alzheimer's research.
Student Seminar: Richard Park
Speaker: Richard Park
Advisers: Peter Park & Simon Kasif
Title: Seqeyes: A multi-scale interactive visualization tool for structural variations
ABTRACT
Genomic structural variations (SV) are known to play an important role in cancer and other diseases. Next-generation sequencing is a key technology for the identification of such variations, but current data and algorithms yield many false positives and false negative predictions. We have created a visualization tool called Seqeyes to explore and interpret predicted structural variations to help guide experimental validations. Users can sort, filter, and aggregate samples based on clinical attributes, which facilitates the association of phenotypes with specific patterns of structural variation. Our tool provides a combination of linear and circular representations. Two genome browser views show detail at multiple locations concurrently, while the circular ideogram view provides a global summary. Multiple molecular data types including copy number, gene expression, and methylation microarrays for each sample are integrated as additional genomic tracks. We leverage advanced open-source indexes available from Postgresql and Postbio to greatly enhance the speed and amount of data available to visualize. Seqeyes is a novel multi-scale visualization that can interactively navigate dozens of genomes down to individual sequencing reads within a web browser.
Bioinformatics Alumnus to Lead $13.6M Grant for Lung Cancer Detection Study
The US Department of Defense has awarded the BU Medical School a $13.6M grant for a lung cancer detection study under Principal Investigator Avrum Spira, MD (MS '02) Associate Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Bioinformatics at BUSM. See the article here.