Two faculty in our program received Sloan Research Fellowships in the last two years: Michael Grabe, in 2009, in molecular biology, and Eric P. Xing, in 2008, in computer science. Awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty. Currently a total of 118 fellowships are awarded annually. >>

Our program recently received the Phase II award from the NIBIB Interfaces Initiative for Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Training (T32). Phase I of this award was received from HHMI>>

Pitt Is Ranked Among the Top 10 U.S. University Recipients of Federal Research and Development Obligations >>

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Brower-Sinning R, Carter DM, Crevar CJ, Ghedin E, Ross TM, Benos PV.(2009) "The role of RNA folding free energy in the evolution of the polymerase genes of the influenza A virus."Genome Biol. 10(2):R18.
http://genomebiology.com/2009/10/2/R18

A. Ramanathan,, P.K. Agarwal, C.J. Langmead (2008) "An Online Approach for Mining Collective Behaviors from Molecular Dynamics Simulations"; Proc. 13th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2009, pp. 138-154

Howrylak JA, Dolinay T, Lucht LA, Wang Z, Christiani DC, Sethi JM, Xing EP, Donahoe MP, Choi AM. (2009)"Discovery of the Gene Signature for Acute Lung Injury in Patients with Sepsis." Physiol Genomics (e-pub)

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For the second year, our Program was very well represented at the ISMB meeting, which was held this year in Toronto. Our program students and faculty gave 2 proceedings talks, 4 highlights talk, 1 special session talk, 1 technology track presentation, and 13 poster presentations, as well as 1 plenary talk, 1 regular talk and 2 posters at the 3DSig Satellite meeting!

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