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Thursday, November 14, 2019

CPCB Student among Rising Stars 2019

Yang Yang, a Ph.D. student in Jian Ma‘s lab, was recognized during Rising Stars 2019, an intensive workshop for women graduate students who are pursuing careers in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering.
Friday, November 08, 2019

Neural Network Fills In Data Gaps for Spatial Analysis of Chromosomes

Computational methods used to fill in missing pixels in low-quality images or video also can help scientists provide missing information for how DNA is organized in the cell.
Friday, October 25, 2019

Protogenes featured in Science and Nature articles

Dr. Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis was recently featured in Nature and Science magazine articles which highlighted her work on de novo gene birth.
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis wins NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Monday, October 14, 2019

Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis wins NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Research in the Carvunis laboratory combines evolutionary and systems approaches to decipher the molecular mechanism of change and innovation in biology, with a focus on the emergence of novel genes.
CompBio’s Mohimani Goes Big To Find New Antibiotics
Thursday, October 03, 2019

CompBio’s Mohimani Goes Big To Find New Antibiotics

Hosein Mohimani has a knack for finding ever-faster ways of searching giant databases for potential therapeutic drugs. Now, the computer scientist is trying a new approach in which the size of the databases isn’t something to be conquered, but a feature he uses to his advantage.
Benos Lab Receives U01 Research Grant from NIH
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Benos Lab Receives U01 Research Grant from NIH

Takis Benos, Professor and Vice Chair at the Department of Computational and Systems Biology, and his collaborators were awarded a U01 research grant to study changes occurring in healthy lungs as they age.
CPCB Welcomes our new Ph.D. students
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

CPCB Welcomes our new Ph.D. students

We’re excited to welcome another amazing group of incoming students to the CPCB program.
Second-Year Computational Biology Ph.D. Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Friday, April 12, 2019

Second-Year Computational Biology Ph.D. Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Laura Tung, a second-year Computational Biology Ph.D. student in Prof. Carl Kingsford’s group, has been chosen to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
New Method Identifies Which Asthma Patients Respond to Systemic Corticosteroids
Thursday, February 21, 2019

New Method Identifies Which Asthma Patients Respond to Systemic Corticosteroids

Physicians will be able to predict which of their patients with severe asthma are likely to benefit from treatment with systemic corticosteroids — and which might only suffer their side effects — with help from a dozen clinical variables researchers have identified using machine learning techniques.
Ali Saglam and Lillian Chong Presented Protein-protein Binding Pathway using Fully-continuous, Explicit-solvent Simulations
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Ali Saglam and Lillian Chong Presented Protein-protein Binding Pathway using Fully-continuous, Explicit-solvent Simulations

The latest study by Lillian Chong and Ali Saglam, a postdoc in the Faeder Lab, demonstrated the power of the weighted ensemble (WE) strategy in enabling explicit-solvent MD simulation of a protein–protein binding process.
Dr. Mohimani Among Those to Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Dr. Mohimani Among Those to Receive Sloan Research Fellowships

Hosein Mohimani, assistant professor in the Computational Biology Department, and Bernhard Haeupler, assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, are among 126 recipients of 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars whose achievements put them among the very best scientific minds working today.
Paper on Influenza Virion Assembly Grabs Cover of PLoS Computational Biology
Thursday, February 07, 2019

Paper on Influenza Virion Assembly Grabs Cover of PLoS Computational Biology
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