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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Robin E. C. Lee Awarded Outstanding Investigator

Dr. Lee’s grant proposal entitled “Deciphering dynamic signals in control of cell fate decisions” has been selected to receive an R35 Outstanding Investigator ‘MIRA’ award from the NIGMS.
Monday, August 01, 2016

Congrats to our new alumnus, Dr. Jose Juan Tapia-Valenzuela

Jose Juan Tapia-Valenzuela successfully defended his dissertation, “A study on systems modeling frameworks and their Interoperability”
Monday, August 01, 2016

Congratulations, Dr. Robert Sheehan!

Bobby Sheehan successfully defended his dissertation, “Closing the loop: A combined computational modeling and experimental approach provides novel insights into immune cell signaling systems and their global effects.”
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew J Sedgewick, CPCB’s newest Ph.D. Alumnus
Thursday, July 07, 2016

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew J Sedgewick, CPCB’s newest Ph.D. Alumnus

AJ Sedgewick successfully defended his thesis, “Graphical models for de novo and pathway-based network prediction over multi-modal high-throughput biological data” on June 29, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. David Farrow, CPCB’s newest Ph.D. Alum
Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Congratulations to Dr. David Farrow, CPCB’s newest Ph.D. Alum

Dr. David Farrow successfully defended his thesis, “Modeling the Past, Present, and Future of Influenza” on June 23, 2016.
Murphy receives grant from new international collaboration program
Friday, June 17, 2016

Murphy receives grant from new international collaboration program

CPCB Founding Director Bob Murphy and his collaborator Christoph Wülfing from the University of Bristol have just received grants from a new program encouraging collaboration between U.S. and U.K. investigators.
Congratulations to newly-minted Ph.D., Dr. Rory Donovan!
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Congratulations to newly-minted Ph.D., Dr. Rory Donovan!

Congratulations to Dr. Rory Donovan, who successfully defended his thesis, “Efficient Sampling in Stochastic Biological Models” on May 31.
Study of dynamics of T cell signaling published in Science Signaling
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Study of dynamics of T cell signaling published in Science Signaling

CPCB alum Dr. Taraz Buck and current CPCB student Xiongtao Ruan, were co-first authors of a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Bristol resulting in a major recent paper in Science Signaling.
CPCB group’s robotically driven experimentation system could reduce the cost of discovering drug and target interactions
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

CPCB group’s robotically driven experimentation system could reduce the cost of discovering drug and target interactions

A group of CPCB researchers have created the first robotically driven experimentation system to determine the effects of a large number of drugs on many proteins, reducing the number of necessary experiments by 70%.
Koes and Sunseri published in Nucleic Acids Research
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Koes and Sunseri published in Nucleic Acids Research

Dr. David Koes and Jocelyn Sunseri published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research
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