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CBCB Alumn Michael Schatz named the 21st Bloomberg Professor at Johns Hopkins University
CBCB researchers Jessica Goodheart and Keith Hughitt have received the 2015-2016 BISI Merit Award
CBCB scientists Joo Sang Lee, Avinash Das Sahu, and Eytan Ruppin are Invention of the Year award nominees
Each year, UMD honors exceptional inventions that have the potential to make an important impact on science, society, and the free market. The Invention of the Year award nominees come from three categories: Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Information Sciences. One invention from each category is selected to win the Invention of the Year Award.
CBCB postdocs Joo Sang Lee and Avinash Das Sahu, and CBCB faculty Eytan Ruppin, are finalists in the Physical Sciences category.
For more information, please see: http://research.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=9587
CBCB faculty Eytan Ruppin's group publishes a paper in Cell Systems on predicting drug side effects
CBCB faculty Eytan Ruppin's group has published a paper titled "Metabolic Network Prediction of Drug Side Effects" on March 23, 2016 in the journal Cell Systems .
For further information, please see: https://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2016/03/professor-eytan-ruppin-publishes-...
Metabolic Network Prediction of Drug Side Effects" article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405471216300734
Recent Promotions for CBCB Faculty
Congratulations to the following mentioned faculty:
Dr. Hector Corrada Bravo has been promoted to Associate Professor. Additionally, Dr. Mihai Pop, Dr. Najib El-Sayed, and Dr. Michael Cummings have been promoted to Professor.Adam Phillippy quoted in the NY Times
CBCB scientists Mihai Pop and Rita Colwell are part of the new USDA Center of Excellence dedicated to sustainable water reuse
CBCB faculty Mihai Pop is mentioned in the Wall Street Journal for sequencing UMD's mascot
The article can be found here: http://www.wsj.com/article_email/does-your-mascot-have-a-dna-sequence-sc...
A youtube video has been posted that shows Dr. Pop working with UMD freshmen to sequence the genome of the University's mascot, the diamondback terrapin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBoV5j-oQes&feature=youtu.be
CBCB faculty Rita Colwell is honored with the NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award
CBCB scientists Mahfuza Sharmin, Hector Corrada Bravo, and Sridhar Hannenhalli publish a paper in BMC Cancer on hypomethylated blocks in colon cancer
"Distinct genomic and epigenomic features demarcate hypomethylated blocks in colon cancer" article: https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-016-2128-1