Congratulations to Dr. Salim Chowdhury, Dr. Aparna Kumar, and Dr. Devin Sullivan on their successful defenses last week! Dr. Salim Chowdhury “Algorithms to Reconstruct Evolutionary Models of Tumor Progression “Salim…

The combined 2013 and 2014 Community Structure-Activity Resource (CSAR) Competition (www.csardock.org) has concluded, and the results are in. The CSAR competition is an annual competition organized by Drs. Heather Carlson…

MSC/CMPBIO 2075-1020 SPRING 2015 (January 5 – april 25) Wed/Fri 09:30 am 3073 BST3 Sequencing technology is continually progressing, and genome sequences from different species and populations continue to become…

CPCB student Aparna Kumar was first author on a paper published today in the U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  It describes a new method for identifying proteins…

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Chakra Chennubhotla on being selected as a finalist for the BGSA Distinguished Mentor Award. In January 2003, BGSA students implemented an award to recognize…

The list of genes identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by deep DNA sequencing has expanded from nine to 33, according to a new study by an international research team…

CPCB Training Faculty member Carl Kingsford has been selected as one of 14 recipients of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s “Moore Investigators in Data Discovery” awards. The unrestricted award of…

“The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Pittsburgh an $11 million, four-year grant to lead a Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence, an initiative that will help scientists capitalize…

Congratulations to Devin Sullivan and Shannon Quinn for getting their pilot project, Short-Term Innovative Research (STIR): Predoctoral Grant Competition, fully funded on Experiment.com. Overview: Writing grants is the number one skill required…