Author: Adam Kohlhaas

The Joint Carnegie Mellon University – University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB)  would like to invite you to attend a virtual event to learn more about our program. If you or...

The popular YouTube channel, Veritasium, is hosting a Science Communication contest, and your favorite CPCB-based scicomm channel bioZone is taking part! The contest involves creating targeted science communication content that is one minute or less...

Congratulations to the Shi Lab on their latest publication in Nature Communications Dr. Yi Shi Potent neutralizing nanobodies resist convergent circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2 by targeting diverse and conserved epitopes Abstract Interventions against variants of...

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Takis Benos and the Benos lab have been awarded an NIH R01 grant entitled “COPD subtypes and early prediction using integrative probabilistic graphical models”. This is a...

A myriad of inflammatory cytokines regulate signaling pathways to maintain cellular homeostasis. The IkB kinase (IKK) complex is an integration hub for cytokines that govern nuclear factor kB (NF-kB) signaling. In response to inflammation,...

The 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) has offered awards to Caroline Larkin (Faeder/Shoemaker Labs) and April Rich (Carvunis Lab), while Gaby Gerlach (Camacho Lab) has received an honorable mention. Congratulations! Caroline Larkin...

Samantha Furman awarded NIH NCI F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award to support her PhD work titled “Quantifying heterocellular communication and spatial intratumoral heterogeneity from high dimensional spatial proteomics data” Tumors...

Congratulations to Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis on being selected as a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow for her work in Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology! This fellowship is awarded to early-career researchers whose “achievements and potential place...

SCS Cancer Research Fellowships Awarded to Yutong Qiu and Trevor Frisby The Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science awarded one-year Cancer Research Fellowships to Yutong Qiu and Trevor Frisby in support of work toward...

This story originally appeared in Pittwire. To wind down from a busy day, PhD student April Rich turns YouTube content focused on lighthearted biology lessons. But she noticed that most videos were geared toward younger audiences...