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Kaitlin Sawatzki Wins Russek Student Achievement Award
Kaitlin Sawatzki (PhD candidate) received the Microbiology department's Russek Student Achievement second prize award. Kaitlin will give a poster presentation of her work.
Sawatzki, K., Ataca, W., Watanable, K., Kuraoka, M., Walter, E., Kelsoe, G., Feng, F. and Kepler, T. Non-specific activation of autoreactive B cells after anthrax vaccination delays protection.
Sila Ataca receives GMSSO Community Service Award
Congratulations to Sila Ataca (PhD candidate, Microbiology), who received a Graduate Medical Sciences Student Organization (GMSSO) Community Service Award. Awardees are selected on the basis of an outstanding track record of volunteer service in the Greater Boston Area undertaken since matriculation and comes with a $500 prize to offset the cost of travel to or registration for a professional interview, conference, workshop or society.
Stephanie D’Souza presenting at Next-Generation Sequencing 2016
Stephanie D'Souza (MD student and PhD candidate) will give a talk on her research ("A draft genome sequence for the Egyptian fruit bat, the reservoir host for Marburg virus") at the Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) 2016 conference in Barcelona next week. This conference is hosted by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and is dedicated to genome annotation.
Tom Kepler Named as Director of the Immunology Training Program
Tom Kepler has been selected to replace David H. Sherr as the director of the Immunology Training Program (ITP). The ITP is an interdepartmental teaching and research program involving faculty from multiple disciplines within the Boston University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Dental Medicine.
Tom Kepler Seminar Speaker at the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Tom Kepler presented a talk entitled "Evolutionary Dynamics in the Antibody Response" on March 11, 2016, as part of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology seminar series.
Katherine Attends the Antibody/Viral Coevolution Workshop 2016
Katherine (PhD candidate, Bioinformatics) attended the Antibody/Viral Coevolution Workshop March 3-4, 2016. The workshop, hosted by the New Mexico Consortium, was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Kate Sawatzki First Place Winner of Travel Award
Congratulations to our own Kate Sawatzki (PhD candidate, Microbiolgy), who is the first place winner of the Microbiology Trainee Travel Award! She will use the funds to travel to the Gordon Research Conference on Antibody Biology and Engineering, from March 20-25, 2016, in Galveston, TX.
Tom Kepler teaching ‘Statistical Reasoning for the Basic Biomedical Sciences MI720′
Statistics is a key competency in scientific research—never more so than today—but too often is presented in a dry and detached manner, leaving the impression that statistics is an unfortunate but necessary hurdle to clear after the real science is done. In contrast to this view, we will approach the subject from the broader perspective of reasoning under uncertainty as an integral part of scientific research, and statistics as essential formalizations of foundational scientific methods.
In addition to building up the relevant concepts, intuitions, and theory, we will engage in hands-on exercises in class using R Studio and best data-analytical practices using R Markdown, both of which are freely available and run under Windows, OSX, and Linux.
Tom Kepler presents at Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics conference
Tom Kepler will give a talk, entitled "The Ig Repertoire of the Rhesus Macaque", on Thursday December 10 at the Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics conference in San Diego, CA. Conference details can be found here.
Stephanie D’Souza wins poster award
Congratulations to Stephanie D'Souza (PhD/MD Program), won an award for her poster, entitled "A draft genome sequence for the Egyptian fruit bat, the reservoir host for Marburg virus", at the Genome Science Institute Research Symposium on November 10th!
