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Monday, October 31, 2022

CPCB and Bio Ph.D. students co-first author paper accepted in Bioinformatics

CPCB 2nd year student Huangqingbo (Paul) Sun and Biological Sciences Ph.D. student Xuecong Fu are co-first authors on the Murphy group paper "Improving and evaluating deep learning models of cellular organization"
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

CB Teaching Professor and MSAS Associate Director receives Teaching Innovation award

Dr. Joshua Kangas, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Computational Biology Department, has been chosen to receive a Teaching Innovation Award for his development of innovative Laboratory Automation courses.
CPCB student Mostofa Uddin's work accepted by CVPR
Monday, March 21, 2022

CPCB student Mostofa Uddin's work accepted by CVPR

Mostofa Rafid Uddin, a second-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Min Xu’s lab, has had a first-authored paper accepted by the EEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), a top-ranked conference in computer science.
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Tyler Lovelace awarded NIH NLM F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award

Tyler Lovelace awarded NIH NLM F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award to support his PhD word titled “Causal graphical methods for high-dimensional heterogeneous biomedical data”
Monday, February 07, 2022

Carl Kingsford Assumes co-Directorship of the Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Computational Biology Ph.D. Program

Carl Kingsford, the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science in the Computational Biology Department, has assumed the co-directorship of the Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB).
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Dr. Carvunis and lab receive NSF CAREER award

Dr. Carvunis and lab receive the National Science Foundation CAREER award to study how the widespread translation of evolutionary novel sequences impacts physiology and fitness in yeast.