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Free Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Genomics Workshop on June 15
Registration is now open for the ISCB DC area regional student group summer workshop on bioinformatics, computational biology and genomics!
The meeting will take place in the Biosciences Research Building (BRB) at the University of Maryland, College Park campus. The goal of the meeting is to bring together researchers from different institutions around the region to share ideas and learn from one another, and to foster collaborations across organizations.
Topics include:
◦ Genome-scale metabolic modeling
◦ Web application development for computational biology
◦ Bacterial genome assembly & annotation
◦ Analyzing sequence motifs through maximum entropy modeling
◦ Obtaining and Analyzing Data from the The Cancer Genome Atlas Project
◦ Co-expression network analysis using RNA-Seq data
Registration is FREE and includes lunch, kindly provided by the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Registration: http://tinyurl.com/iscb-dc-2016
Deadline : June 10, 2016
For more information about the meeting, including detailed schedule information, check out the meeting website at: http://iscb-dc-rsg.github.io/2016-summer-workshop/
Feel free to contact Keith Hughitt at khughitt@umd.edu if you have any questions or suggestions regarding the meeting.
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
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